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On 6 Sep, 12:24, Kevin wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
oblong wrote:
Please help!

I'm planning a home birth and would like to have an inflatable pool
for pain relief purposes, there are two options, they are both at the
smaller end of the birth-pool spectrum.. here are the weights of the
pools (filled):

Why don't you just go to hospital like normal people?

each to his/her own, with MRSA would you go in if you had a choice????

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Kevin R
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Re this "debate" of hospital v home, the obvious risk no one seems to
have cottoned onto is that if something goes wrong, either with mother
or baby, then you need to get to hospital pdq.

That depends on what 'goes wrong'. Very little does go wrong which can't be
dealt with by the attending midwife or doctor, unless you're thinking of
mechanical intervention.

An intermediate solution is to make maternity wards much more like
home where you are provided with the full spectum of choice for birth
so it becomes more attractive to mothers to be.

That's been tried, pretty curtains and soft furnishings do NOT replicate the
home situation, there's a lot more to it than that.

Chris (whose 'SWIMBO' happens to be a paediatrician who takes in the
results of some ill-thought-out home births with concommitant O2
deprivation - not a good gift to impart to your baby on starting
life!)

And how many O2 deprivations happen in hospitals? And how many babies and
mothers are damaged either physically or emotionally or both from hospital
intervention?

Mary