Doctors raise the alarm: ” Access to dangerous home for mother and baby”

Neonologists raise the alarm for births at home, a choice that, according to Sin (The Italian Society of Neonatology), endangers the health of the child and the mother. Although the percentage is still low compared to the total number of newborns (0.1%), the trend is on the rise. Hence, it is important to repeat critical issues related to this choice.

Unforeseen Compliments/ Italian neonatologists issue an alarm for birth at home because, although most healthy women have a physical birth and a problemless pregnancy, it is not possible to disfellowshipped for sure the possibilities of complications that endanger the health of their mother and child and imply the need for immediate transfer to the hospital. The transfer, furthermore, is a frequent event, with an epidemic of about 40% of cases.

Hospital is safer. Even the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists argue that the hospital is the safest place to be born. However, if a woman chooses to be born at home, that is how she can deal with birth under the greatest possible security conditions.

1. The wife should be informed of the risks of birth at home and organization.

2. There must be an easily accessible hospital facility.

3. Fast transportation to the hospital should be guaranteed by experts trained in intensive care maneuvers.

4. The hospital should be announced in advance in the nearest neonatal intensive care unit.

5. The future mother needs to receive specific home delivery training.

6. It is necessary to ensure necessary and routine control for the newborn and mother within the first hours shortly after birth. / P SENSA