Pam Hirsch reports that other staff at the hospital where she works
with new Lactnet grandma Kris Rogers were less than enthusiastic
about the footling breech homebirth of the grandbaby.
(Congratulations to mom, baby, and grandma!)

Earlier this year Linda Smith was in Colorado speaking at an LLL Area
Conference.  Naturally she spent some time talking about how birth
practices affect breastfeeding.  I helped to process the (anonymous,
of course) evaluation forms afterwards and was downright shocked to
read a comment from one attendee.  She wrote that she couldn't
believe the Colorado Nurses' Association had knowingly sposored CE
credits for a speaker who recommended homebirths.  She felt this was
dangerous and wrong, and went on ranting for a bit about how
irresponsible and negligent it was to endorse homebirths.

My reaction to her reaction:  I couldn't believe she, a HCP working
with moms and babies, didn't know that homebirth is as safe or safer
than birth center or hospital!  Hellooooo, evidence-based practice!

I thought about asking the Colorado Nurses' Association to address
this subject perhaps in a newsletter.  It wasn't that long ago
(1999?) that the BMJ had a whole series of papers on the safety and
desirability of homebirth as a birth option -- isn't that a
respectable, mainstream enough journal to reference?  I'm sure there
are many other articles out there too.

Working to make breastfeeding normal means that we can't help but
also work on making natural birth normal.

Margaret
homebirther, among other things
Longmont, CO

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