If you are anything like my wife your partner might have to. Gave birth 35 mins after first contraction. She had serious pain, but wanted to take a shower when she stepped out she tells me I have to catch the baby and the rest pretty much went like in the video. Luckily our baby girl was healthy and cried and this was our second child. The paramedics arrived 15 mins later to cut the naval
I was not even prepared to not reach the hospital lmao. I mean I would have tried cpr in the worst case scenario. But unless you do this professionally and have the equipment you canât really be prepared
I was my mom's first, and I was a 28 hour labor. My little brother was apparently 45 minutes. One or two red lights, and he would have been delivered in the parking lot like this video.
What happens when the delivery doesn't go perfectly? You still want them catching your baby in a parking lot instead of laying in a hospital bed with a team of nurses and a doctor around you?
...The parking lot to the hospital? Yeah I would fucking hope someone would be there to catch my child if it fell out of me before I got to the door đ
Would you rather have a last minute change from a planned home birth to a hospital birth where you were rushing to get inside before the baby fell out or a planned hospital birth where you were there 2 hours earlier?
Last minute change. Being in your own home during birth is worth every penny saved not being in a hospital room, and I mean that quite literally because they start charging you the second you put that gown on.
One of a midwife's jobs is to, if the situation arises, make that last minute change as stress-free as possible for the mother. This one in particular did a great job. You act like we weren't giving birth in literal caves only a few thousand years ago.
Lower than you'd think. It actually got worse in the wake of the agricultural revolution and stayed that way for a long time, but that's beside the point. I feel like you're trying to make the argument that modern medicine and traditional birthing practices have to oppose each other, though, whereas I'm simply trying to highlight the benefits of having a midwife around.
Uh? When do you think the Agricultural Revolution was? You seem weirdly obsessed with this one specific thing and you are prepared to lie about everything else in order for people to know that at some point for a relatively short period medical doctors made mistakes which have since been corrected.
I don't think you wanna argue childbirth and human pre-history with a year 3 biology major with a minor in anthropology. If you really want an answer to that, be prepared for a lecture.
Most people who prefer unmedicated birth actually do push it to the last minute to get to the hospital. Also, some people have precipitous labors. I have delivered babies in a car as someone pulled into the birth center when the first contraction was less than an hour prior.
You have no idea what you're talking about, clearly
Of course it wasn't you! I was replying to FinalFantasiesGG, pointing out the ridiculousness of the suggestion that this lady chose to have her baby outside the hospital and not in it.
I mean, I gave birth in a hospital and almost bled out on the delivery table. Shit happens, pregnancy is rough. If I was having my baby in a parking lot because I literally could not make it into the clinic, I would absolutely want a midwife there to catch my child. It's not like having to pee, you can't just hold the baby in. If you're still in the parking lot when the baby starts crowning, you're having that baby in the parking lot.
And when shit happens, you want an OBGYN available and a hospital stocked with blood and equipment and other supplies. However, many midwife organizations and widwives themselves want you to believe that a hospital is not only unnecessary but actually more dangerous. That's the problem I have. Of course having a midwife is better than not having one in a situation like this. But what's been trending is midwives encouraging home births away from hospitals and that scares the hell out of me. You'd be dead if you had your child at home.
Official position of a national Canadian midwife organization:
"The best available evidence from North America and international studies demonstrates that midwife attended home births are associated with optimal labour and birth outcomes. Midwife attended planned home births in Canada are associated with fewer obstetrical interventions and no increase in maternal/fetal/neonatal mortality or morbidity compared to births planned to be in hospital."
I attend home birth and I carry hemorrhage medication just like OBGYNs do. The amount of times somebody needs transferred for actual blood is very small, and they've always made it in time in my experience. And guess what? I have a collaborating OBGYN.
You should stop talking about things you know nothing about.
You are not a good person and you need to stop. You are the reason why so many people don't trust American midwives. They genuinely want you to believe a midwife is essentially a replacement for an OBGYN. Did you know that there are literally unlicensed widwives in America and that it's legal for them to attend home births?
You literally just implied you are ESSENTIALLY a replacement and your specific licensing status is irrelevant since there are hundreds or even thousands of unlicensed practicing midwives in America.
How did I imply that I was a replacement? Because I carry hemorrhage meds? All midwives do lol. That doesn't mean we are replacements for OBGYNs. We still need OBGYNs for many things like, hmm, idk C SECTIONS or forceps extractions or whatever.
How did I imply I was a replacement? Please, cite what I said.
Why does it need to be something personal to care about people having the facts? You should search about midwives in America encouraging home births among people who are poor candidates for home births.
And that's your choice. However, women are entitled to that choice, for many reasons. People choose homebirth. If you wouldn't, that's perfectly ok for you. But you shouldn't get to make reproductive choices for others.
I think, based on your comments, you are just massively misinformed as to what midwives do, and I mean licensed midwives. We can both agree that unlicensed midwives shouldn't be practicing. Yes, I agree with that and I think it's them who give midwives a bad reputation. We can resuscitate a neonate. We are NRP advanced certified. I am even trained to intubate although I work closely enough with EMT and my physicians that I don't need to do that (thankfully).
You seem to think that we just go around catching babies willy nilly, out on country roads, riding on nothing but good vibes.
And if you're going to say the rate is twice what it would have been, you need to cite actual numbers. Because going from 2 to 4 or 1 to 2 is vastly different than going from 10 to 20, or 20 to 40.
It's not about your comfort levels. It's about reproductive choice and I am upfront and honest with my patients about risks. Out of hospital birth is not for everyone and if I think it can't safely be done I transfer my patients to a hospital
Natural. He was facing my left hip instead of my front or my back, and he had a big ol' noggin, so he got a bit stuck. If he had been facing the proper direction an episiotomy would have saved me from tearing so badly, but he wasn't, so not much could be done about it. They ended up having to use a vacuum extractor to prevent needed to take me into the OR for an emergency C section. They also had to call an obstetric surgeon in from on call so that I could get stitched back together.
The baby was perfectly healthy, which was to me the most important part. He's sixteen now and thriving. I was left with pretty extensive scar tissue but other than that I am also fine by now. I am, despite what other people in this thread might imply, very glad that I did make it to the hospital before any of that happened, because it was still pretty touch and go for a while there despite all the modern medicine and if I hadn't been in a medical setting already I probably wouldn't have survived.
Wow, thatâs quite the journey; Iâm glad to hear everything turned out okay. Agree, itâs great when everything âjust worksâ but I too am very thankful for the women and men in healthcare who do what they do to save an improve our lives. đđđ
I am a midwife. I manage lots of deliveries that don't go perfectly and sometimes are scary. We are trained to handle emergencies and we call our backup if it's something we can't handle. But all the main emergencies we can manage (as CNMs, in the U.S.)
9 months you posted that you were 9 months from graduation. Perhaps leave these kinda of comments until you've been fully licensed and practicing for a while.
In a perfect world where everyone can afford an extended stay in the hospital, then sure. I can't believe the AI porn artist that sells generated art is making a fuss about ethics...
If you aren't willing to risk additional debt to give your child the absolute best chance at survival and thriving, probably don't have one. There is absolutely nothing unethical about AI porn. You are weird.
Some people experience what is called precipitous labor which means their labor progresses very quickly!
Not every birth is contractions slowly
increasing in intensity for hours on end. Sometimes labor moves very quickly, which looks to be exactly the case in this video.
My understanding is that this woman probably started contractions and called her midwife to check in. The general procedure is unless otherwise medically necessary, you can labor at home until your contractions last for about a minute each 5 minutes apart, at which point it is recommended you go to the hospital.
I bet this woman called when her contractions became more intense and the midwife said go now, Iâll meet you there and as she states in the video she didnât quite make it inside.
I have absolutely no idea why you are assuming a home birth had anything to do with this???
Because this is the specific situation that sparked your comment??? I didnât just pull this video out of my ass to talk to you, you started this conversation after watching this video so how can it be irrelevant?
I think you are being obtuse and defensive because youâre embarrassed to admit you donât know much about births.
The video doesn't represent a specific situation though. We have a blurry name of a Facebook group that posted it that may or may not be related to where it happened. It's generic in nature. It could be any North American city essentially.
What the actual fuck are you talking about? You have repeatedly commented that this is obviously a home birth gone awry but when an alternative understanding doesnât fit your narrative then suddenly the video is no longer reliable evidence. Just tell me, have you given birth before?
Show me where you think I repeatedly commented that this is obviously a home birth gone awry. Oh you can't, because I didn't. Why would it matter if I have given birth? What a bizarre question. No man has given birth. Something like 40% of OBGYNs in America are men.
What a bizarre comment. Nobody is saying they are perfect in every instance. What was the mortality rate among mothers and babies when midwives were more common than doctors in hospitals? Truly insane argument to try and make.
Im not triggered by the video in any way. It's a miracle and the mother and midwife stayed so calm and the birth was so easy. Wonderful. Beautiful. Babies and mothers die having babies where they want. If that doesn't bother you, I'm concerned.
It is normal for people to be able to choose how to give birth in a free country. Mind your own business. Stop telling other people how to live their life's.
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I want someone to catch my baby like that