Homebirth as a nice choice
Once a woman is transferred to the hospital, the degree to which a midwife can continue to participate in the birth depends on individual hospital attitude toward homebirth midwives. At the least, she can remain at the hospital as a supportive presence. The midwife can be proactive by staying with the woman and encouraging her while being respectful of hospital staff, not confrontational. She should be familiar with interventions in order to help the woman make choices to take the least interventive path first. She should know the patient bill of rights. She can be most supportive by being nonjudgmental of what the woman may have to experience in order to birth her baby.
In most homebirth cases, birth will simply occur. In most cases of hospital births, the birth will be tampered with to some degree. This is fact. Hospital practitioners are trained to perform?it’s commonly held that only action brings about results. At home we believe that if all is well, let it be.
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