Home Birth vs. Hospital Birth

Although hospital birthing is recommended for high risk pregnancies, for those women who are in good health there is no reason that a home birth cannot be achieved if it is the desire of the woman. For complicated pregnancies, however, hospital birthing can provide needed emergency care for both mother and baby should it be required. The same holds true for women who give birth prematurely, should the baby need specialized neonatal care.

Every woman has the capability of achieving birth, although she may lack confidence that she can do it. How many women, in the throws of childbirth have exclaimed that they just cannot do it, cannot push the baby out? I know this author did. But, to my amazement, I was able to give birth, not once but three times. Because birth is, as said before, a natural biological process, both mother and child have instincts that make the act of giving birth not a possibility, but an eventuality. This lack of confidence is one of the reasons that many women choose to give birth in a hospital setting, where they are certain that the science of medicine will aid them in delivery.