Napa Valley Childbirth Sevices

07/20/2025

I heard this on NPR/ This American Life yesterday.

Patients who’ve been through painful C-sections say they feel cutting. They feel pulling. And a doctor will tell them that pulling is normal. The patients feel outraged that they are screaming in pain and that a doctor continues to teach a resident like nothing is abnormal. https://nyti.ms/44RWQF7

06/09/2025

04/09/2025

This video provides details on a large U.S. study showing that with proper precautions, low-risk home births are as safe as births in accredited birth centers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8hnM98PVD8
The key takeaway for me is that the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists disapproves of home births on grounds they aren’t as safe as hospital births. They don’t object, though, to births in accredited birth centers. (See ""Obstetric Care Consensus #9: Levels of Maternal Care"" https://bit.ly/4l97izj ) But if ACOG accepts that birth center births are safe, and home births are shown to be equally safe, it logically follows that ACOG’s position on home births isn’t supported.

For more on the home birth controversy, check out: https://hencigoer.com/out-of-hospital-birth/

04/06/2025