Home Birth Serving Charlottesville Virginia & Surrounding Area

You may be wondering if home birth is a safe option for you and your family?

Home birth is a safe choice especially when you are in good health through out your pregnancy. Not only that but a home birth midwife can help you to achieve good health throughout your entire pregnancy. For women with low risk pregnancies in North America, giving birth at home bears similar risks of intrapartum and neonatal mortality as giving birth in hospital, but planned home births are associated with lower rates of medical interventions and higher satisfaction rate. A 2023 summary of the best available research published in the internationally recognized Cochrane Library shows that planned hospital births can do more harm than good. This applies if the pregnant woman is healthy, expects an uncomplicated birth, and the birth takes place in a well-organized health care system.

On April 10, 2024 the Cochrane Library published an Evidence Synthesis based on  the continuity of midwifery care. The research looked at 17 randomized controlled studies. The review found that women who received midwifery continuity of care models were less likely to experience caesarean section or instrumental birth, were more likely to experience spontaneous vaginal birth and, report a positive experience. Additionally, midwifery continuity of care provides benefits for health services through cost savings in the antenatal (care during pregnancy) and intrapartum (care during labour and birth) period. Further findings also proved that preterm birth and fetal loss was equal too, if not better than the medical model outcomes.

In 2019, a large systematic review and meta-analysis was published in The Lancet. It looked at 14 studies including data from around 500,000 intended home births. The authors found that, “The risk of perinatal or neonatal mortality was not different when birth was intended at home or in hospital.” (Hutton et al 2019).

These are just a very few of the studies that prove the saltiness of home birth midwives! The evidence keeps coming in not only in the United States but world wide.

As a midwife your health and safety are my #1 priority. To come under my care my care I am available to you 24/7 any time day or night to be available to you with any questions or concerns you might have about the health of your pregnancy. In my experience, I can initiate emergent care faster than hospital based providers due to the fact you can pick up the phone and call me if you are nor feeling well or feel concerned about the baby. I know each and every one of my clients personally and in depth. I know the state of your health and what they are dealing with in your home/health environment with out having to look you up in a chart. I am quick to initiate medical care when necessary. And it is apart of my job to facilitate safety for you and your baby.

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