#358 Homebirth Safety: What to Believe?
Birthing Instincts
Dr. Stuart Fischbein + Midwife Blyss Young
4.8 • 692 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
The two authors who despise home birth are at it again with a new pre-print on the "Enduring Safety Concerns" of community birthing. Does their evidence hold water? The disconnect of priorities by organized medicine continues. Dr. Stu is joined by guest co-host Lindsey Meehleis, to break down the data.
Together, Dr. Stu and Lindsey dissect this paper that scrutinizes the safety of out-of-hospital births, and discuss the complexities surrounding breech births, twin pregnancies, and the sacred moments of life and death, advocating for the wisdom of traditional midwifery in today's polarized birth setting debates.
They take a closer look at the ACOG's rigid stance on planned home birth risks, untangling the often-misleading statistics that shape many women's choices about their birth setting.
California no longer tracks stillbirths! What? We send blessings to and burn a candle for Blyss who had hip replacement surgery today.
Key highlights:
- Holistic Home Birth
- Fetal Death Reporting Controversy
- Debate on Planned Home Birth Safety
- Challenges in Traditional Midwifery Training
- Home Birth Studies
Episode resources:
- Join our Patreon! patreon.com/birthinginstinctspodcast
- OC midwifery: orangecountymidwives.com/lindsey-meehleis-lm-cpm
- About Lindsey Meehleis
- ACOG article: Planned Home Birth
- Science direct article: Enduring safety concerns for out-of-hospital births in the United States
- PubMed article: Perinatal or neonatal mortality among women who intend at the onset of labour to give birth at home compared to women of low obstetrical risk who intend to give birth in hospital
- PubMed article: Perinatal and maternal outcomes by planned place of birth for healthy women with low risk pregnancies
- PubMed article: Planned home versus planned hospital births in women at low-risk pregnancy: A systematic review with meta-analysis
- Thebmj article: Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives: large prospective study in North America
- BJOG article: Perinatal mortality and morbidity up to 28 days after birth among 743 070 low-risk planned home and hospital births: a cohort study based on three merged national perinatal databases
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Burling Instincts Podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Dr. Stewart Fishbein, community-based practicing obstetrician and longtime advocate for birth choices. |
| 0:10.0 | And I'm Bliss Young, a licensed midwife. |
| 0:13.0 | Join us in our conversational style podcast where we talk about everything birth. |
| 0:17.0 | Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry, but we're happy that you're here. So here we go. |
| 0:25.1 | Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, and good middle of the night, everybody. |
| 0:30.2 | Today is a really interesting special day because as you can see, I have a candle burning. |
| 0:36.0 | Because as we speak, Bliss is in surgery, getting |
| 0:40.1 | a new hip. I'm very excited about that. And so from the bullpen, I have the Mariano Rivera |
| 0:47.3 | of guest hosts. If you don't know who that Mariano Rivera is, people look him up. Okay, you need to look him up. |
| 0:55.3 | The greatest relief picture of all time. |
| 0:58.0 | And it's Lindsay Meles, Lindsay. |
| 1:00.2 | Yay. |
| 1:00.8 | Welcome to the podcast again. |
| 1:02.9 | Hi. |
| 1:03.9 | I'm becoming a regular over here. |
| 1:07.0 | Yeah, well, you've been, you deserve all the accolades you're getting. |
| 1:11.6 | I mean, I know you just recorded something with intentional birth and you have the honor, I think, this week of going to Arizona to meet with Alex Clark on the Spillover podcast. |
| 1:21.1 | And it's really well deserved and it's exciting because we need the exposure and you're really good at it. |
| 1:26.3 | Thank you. |
| 1:26.7 | So let me give people, for those of you who don't know, my friend and colleague, |
| 1:31.8 | you can listen to her on podcast 349 where we talk with Gina on Type 1 diabetes. |
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