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Hospitals are not safer than out of hospital births and never have been. The first and simplest reason is that there are germs in hospitals that don't exist anywhere else on the planet. Infections are much higher in hospitals and, by the way, are the leading cause of death among new moms in the US.
But besides infection, hospitals are run by men or women trying to prove themselves to men. They are run by doctors who have been trained to push pills and do surgeries; to view every patient as an illness, an emergency waiting to happen if it isn't already.
Midwives are generally women, trained by women not usually in competition with each other, but cooperation. They are trained to view birth as a natural bodily function that seldom needs help. A birth is not an emergency until it proves to be.
God created our bodies to give birth and women have been doing it for 6000 years without the help of men and their tools and pills. Because of the Fall , there is occasionally the need for help (and thank the Lord we live in a time when that help is available!), but it is uncommon. Most of the time, time is all that's needed to get a healthy baby and mommy.
As our country moves to socialized medicine (and that is what BO care is all about) the costs will be examined and out of hospital birth will begin to be encouraged. Right now, the Dr union keeps the competition down, but eventually the money involved in hospital births will make the alternatives more attractive to the politicians and bureaucrats in charge of such decisions.
Hospitals are not safer than out of hospital births and never have been. The first and simplest reason is that there are germs in hospitals that don't exist anywhere else on the planet. Infections are much higher in hospitals and, by the way, are the leading cause of death among new moms in the US.
But besides infection, hospitals are run by men or women trying to prove themselves to men. They are run by doctors who have been trained to push pills and do surgeries; to view every patient as an illness, an emergency waiting to happen if it isn't already.
Midwives are generally women, trained by women not usually in competition with each other, but cooperation. They are trained to view birth as a natural bodily function that seldom needs help. A birth is not an emergency until it proves to be.
God created our bodies to give birth and women have been doing it for 6000 years without the help of men and their tools and pills. Because of the Fall , there is occasionally the need for help (and thank the Lord we live in a time when that help is available!), but it is uncommon. Most of the time, time is all that's needed to get a healthy baby and mommy.
As our country moves to socialized medicine (and that is what BO care is all about) the costs will be examined and out of hospital birth will begin to be encouraged. Right now, the Dr union keeps the competition down, but eventually the money involved in hospital births will make the alternatives more attractive to the politicians and bureaucrats in charge of such decisions.
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