Hi Rachel,

The only part of your post I take some issue with is the statement I left
pasted below.  I think we may be comparing apples to oranges here.  The
reason I say that is because we do not know what caused the doctors to
choose an emergent c-section.  And by that I mean we don't know what always
causes the neonate's problems.  Complications can occur because of
medications given to the mother, because of early inductions, or other
things that are done to women in hospitals.  Medications and inductions do
not occur in homebirthing women, so it's not really fair to say that the
outcomes are better in the hospital, unless we know that both environments
were equal.  For some (certainly not all, but some) of those hospital
infants, it is possible that they would have had a better outcome at home if
hospital intervention is what caused their problems to begin with.

Christina Harris, RN
Federal Way, WA

On Jan 3, 2008 10:37 PM, R M WAHL <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>
> Over the course of many years, I have seen less morbidity (infants have
> less
> severe brain damage) because of rapidly performed c-sections in hospital
> births.  Home births may have more severe outcomes because of the distance
> from the hospital.



>
> I hope that your New Year has been peaceful.  Sincerely, Rachel Wahl RN
> IBCLC

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