In the era of return to the past and interest in everything natural and natural, many are increasingly paying attention to different variants of childbirth. Most of them are familiar to all previous generations and in fact are alternative to existing methods. They give birth, sometimes in the water - on the beach or in the bathroom, and sometimes it's just at home, in their native walls, and not in gloomy, sickening thoughts about illnesses in the hospital ward. However, such "savagery" - it is also the power of a woman to give birth to children at home - is very popular in some quite prosperous countries.
For example, in Europe, more often women give birth at home (in Holland - about 90% of parturient women). Of course, this process is not just for sure, but always under supervision. But now a skilled obstetrician is on the bed with a woman in bed.
In Russia and the CIS countries we give birth at home, basically, already having some arguments and experience. We give birth at home because they are against the hospital. As a rule, the reputation of state institutions is low, and fewer people believe in the infallibility of doctors. Therefore, it makes sense to consider all possible perspectives and difficulties in home birth.
Many women want to give birth at home, because, giving birth at home, they hope for sympathy and empathy of loved ones. In the delivery room, many feel lost, and the treatment of staff with women in childbirth is far from ideal.
Trying to avoid hospital stress, and therefore, to give birth more naturally, without unnecessary anxiety can become a pledge of mild labor, or may aggravate the process. Choosing the most convenient for the birth pose, getting support from relatives, avoiding the introduction of sedatives and other drugs (often those that stimulate the process of giving birth to a child), as well as incorrect and untimely use of them - that's why we give birth at home, and not in the hospital.
According to the mothers, there are fewer microbes at home compared to hospital wards. It is in the hospital that you can "earn" a thrush or pick up something that can damage a child. At the birth of a child, his house is not taken away from his mother. As experience suggests, it must be put on the chest, so that the baby's skin immediately began to colonize the bacteria. They will help him to fight with the new, full of microorganisms a new atmosphere. In addition, the umbilical cord at home delivery is not cut immediately, but only when it stops pulsating.
When giving birth in the bathroom, you can not only comfort your mother, but also help to adapt to the baby - after all, he spent many months among the liquid. But nevertheless the main benefit of home births is the great preparedness and awareness of a woman.
Such a mother will be more attentive to her health condition, she will try to prepare not only for childbirth, but before conception she will show attention to the condition of muscles, systems and general physical preparation of the organism. She is ready for the fact that she will need to give birth herself, without help, cesarean and other tricks. However, no one interferes with the future "maternity" moms also to be concerned with himself. The presence of a doctor - a qualified obstetrician - and several people to help him is simply necessary for home birth. You also need to be prepared to call an ambulance or even call them in advance in case of unforeseen circumstances.
So the woman in childbirth can be quickly delivered to the hospital and render all kinds of help. So, childbirth at home is conditional benefit. But there are a lot of dangers, which are warned by gynecologists. The main of them - unforeseen circumstances, deviations from the norm in the process of birth. An emergency situation can happen at any time, and not all parents can help the child. If it is stuck in the birth canal or bleeding has opened, the umbilical cord falls or, God forbid, the placenta detachment - only the ambulance will save.
The need for cesarean section, resuscitation, installation for the rescue of the newborn - all this can be a disastrous obstacle to the fact that a barely born life is not interrupted. Cesarean has 20 minutes, and an ambulance can take a mother to a woman in labor, but if it is a matter of saving one's life in the presence of one basic sign of life (palpitation, respiration, pulsation of the cord, reflexes) - the decisive 40 seconds ahead. To save a life for this time it is possible only in hospital. The power of a woman is to bear children, but there are also irresistible forces of nature.
The equipment and medicines, experienced surgeons and pediatricians-neonatologists - all this is only in the hospital. And after mum and the child all the same, waiting for the tests, which must necessarily take. The features of home births are often aggravated by all sorts of courses. If it is wrong to choose a training course for expectant mothers, for example, teaching a woman to have children with the help of certain "forces", there is a great chance to run into another "guru". Which, by the way, will help the pregnant woman to give birth, without having for this proper medical knowledge. After all, he is not an obstetrician-gynecologist or a doctor of a resuscitation team. In the case of "water" births, small bathrooms, which are equipped with many new buildings, do not fit - spacious rooms with installed jacuzzi are not at all. Another significant disadvantage of childbirth at home is contraindications. The first birth and the presence of chronic diseases, the age category after 30 years, or those born during pregnancy (for example, viral diseases) all significantly narrows the category of happy future "moms at home."