Oh, video by Miriam Lofgren and Music by Casting Crowns.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Jojo Dedication
This was shown at Fountain of Grace at Joel's baby dedication. I've never uploaded a video to this blog. So here goes...
Monday, February 25, 2008
So you thought we were crazy!!!???
Ok, this may be a version of what we we learned and experienced with Jojo. But if you don't understand what Pam and I went through with bringing Joel into the world, give this a watch. A lot of the things we learned to be true about the birth industry are discussed in this movie.
Riki Lake, of talkshow fame, has produced a movie about the business of giving birth in the United States. It looks like it would be very informative. I am sure that we won't agree with a lot of the things in the movie, but I'm sure it's worth some time watching.
Scot
P.S. - We still might be crazy!
Update!! We just saw the movie. It was good. A couple of choice words that could have been edited out but overall a good movie. We met some girls from the Alabama Birth Coalition who were pushing a bill that knew our midwife. Everyone should see this one!!
The Data
Among 33 industrialized nations, the United States is tied with Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia with a death rate of nearly 5 per 1,000 babies, according to a new report from Save the Children (April 2006). This is the second worst newborn death rate in the developed world.
The five countries with the lowest infant mortality rates in the March of Dimes report -- Japan, Singapore, Sweden, Finland and Norway – midwives were used as their main source of care for 70 percent of the birthing mothers.
Cesarean section is the most commonly performed surgery in the US, at a cost of $14 billion per year. Cesarean-delivery rates are now at an all time high in the United States, standing at 1.2 million, or 29.1 percent of live births in 2004. The increase represents a 40 percent increase in the past 10 years. (In 1970 the rate was 5.5%) In several New York City-area hospitals, the Cesarean-delivery rate is even higher – over 40%.
In one 1999 survey, 82% of physicians said they performed a C-section to avoid a negligence claim.
Overall, according to studies by Washington-based Public Citizen's health research group, the cesarean section rate for hospitals with nurse-midwifery services was about 13 percent lower than the average cesarean rate for all hospitals.
About half a million U.S. babies are born prematurely each year, data shows.
A new report by the World Health Organization, published in the international medical journal, Lancet, identifies complications from cesarean surgery and anesthesia as the leading causes of maternal death in developed countries, including the United States.
Another report by Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD, coordinator of Integrative Psychiatry and Systems Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Program in Integrative Medicine, comparing 1,046 home births to 1,046 hospital births found negative outcomes consistently higher in hospital births. These included a fetal distress rate six times higher in hospitals, a respiratory distress rate 17 times higher in hospitals, babies requiring resuscitation 3.7 times higher in hospitals, maternal postpartum hemorrhage three times higher in hospitals and 30 birth injuries in the hospital compared with none occurring during the homebirths.
Riki Lake, of talkshow fame, has produced a movie about the business of giving birth in the United States. It looks like it would be very informative. I am sure that we won't agree with a lot of the things in the movie, but I'm sure it's worth some time watching.
Scot
P.S. - We still might be crazy!
Update!! We just saw the movie. It was good. A couple of choice words that could have been edited out but overall a good movie. We met some girls from the Alabama Birth Coalition who were pushing a bill that knew our midwife. Everyone should see this one!!
The Data
Among 33 industrialized nations, the United States is tied with Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia with a death rate of nearly 5 per 1,000 babies, according to a new report from Save the Children (April 2006). This is the second worst newborn death rate in the developed world.
The five countries with the lowest infant mortality rates in the March of Dimes report -- Japan, Singapore, Sweden, Finland and Norway – midwives were used as their main source of care for 70 percent of the birthing mothers.
Cesarean section is the most commonly performed surgery in the US, at a cost of $14 billion per year. Cesarean-delivery rates are now at an all time high in the United States, standing at 1.2 million, or 29.1 percent of live births in 2004. The increase represents a 40 percent increase in the past 10 years. (In 1970 the rate was 5.5%) In several New York City-area hospitals, the Cesarean-delivery rate is even higher – over 40%.
In one 1999 survey, 82% of physicians said they performed a C-section to avoid a negligence claim.
Overall, according to studies by Washington-based Public Citizen's health research group, the cesarean section rate for hospitals with nurse-midwifery services was about 13 percent lower than the average cesarean rate for all hospitals.
About half a million U.S. babies are born prematurely each year, data shows.
A new report by the World Health Organization, published in the international medical journal, Lancet, identifies complications from cesarean surgery and anesthesia as the leading causes of maternal death in developed countries, including the United States.
Another report by Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, PhD, coordinator of Integrative Psychiatry and Systems Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Program in Integrative Medicine, comparing 1,046 home births to 1,046 hospital births found negative outcomes consistently higher in hospital births. These included a fetal distress rate six times higher in hospitals, a respiratory distress rate 17 times higher in hospitals, babies requiring resuscitation 3.7 times higher in hospitals, maternal postpartum hemorrhage three times higher in hospitals and 30 birth injuries in the hospital compared with none occurring during the homebirths.
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