The debate about the suitability of giving birth at home or doing it in the hospital reopens after hearing the news of the death during the birth of Caroline Lovell, a 36 year old woman who he had been fighting for a long time to get home deliveries in Australia financed by the state.
It all happened on January 23, when Caroline went into labor. While she was giving birth to her daughter Zahra she suffered a cardiac arrest, being taken to the hospital where she died the next day.
His daughter Zahra survived and, being a woman who had been defending labor at home for some time, the voices against it have not been slow to rise, ignoring, perhaps, something logical: a cardiac arrest does not know about hospitals or housesIt just happens, wherever you are.
Everything was ready to give birth at home
Caroline Lovell had everything ready to give birth at home. He had hired a private midwife to attend the delivery, however, during the delivery, the thing was complicated to the point that the woman suffered a cardiac arrest. When the paramedics arrived they saw that the mother was really serious and transferred to the hospital.
Since 2009 I fought for the recognition of home birth
In 2009 and thereafter he made various complaints and wrote letters addressed to the state for request that midwives who attend home births be regulated, financed and have legal protection, as happens in other countries.
In the words of Lovell herself:
Life will be in danger without the help of appropriate midwives by the State ... Personally, I am very surprised and ashamed that home birth is not freely chosen by a woman with a low-risk pregnancy ... As a mother I will not have I have no choice but to have a delivery without assistance at home, which is the place where I want to give birth to my children.
The debate is served
As we said at the beginning of the entry, because it is a home birth (in the hospital mothers also die giving birth and there is no news of it) and because it is a woman who had long been defending the birth at home so active, the debate about the safety of giving birth at home has come back on.
It is suspected that the mother could have had severe bleeding during childbirth, but the case is still under investigation and there is no official statement about it.
If it's a hemorrhage, obviously more could have been done to save this woman's life in a hospital. If the cardiac arrest came like this, without warning, more would have been done in a hospital because of a proximity issue (those who can assist you are there and should not travel to the patient by ambulance to the place), although that does not mean that his life was saved.
We may have more data in a few days, but what is certain is that it is a strange and isolated case that I doubt can be extrapolated to other births at home, that is, that does not seem like a good argument to say that births At home they are more or less dangerous.
Regarding my opinion, it has not changed: I prefer that my wife give birth in the hospital and keep fighting so you can give birth there, almost as if you were at home. If I were a woman, I would choose it that way.
Caroline lovellA pity, in any case, that a woman who fought for the freedom to choose could die, because deep down, she fought for the freedom of each and every woman.
