“Women are having their bodies completely hijacked,” says Dr. Jennifer Lang, M.D., a 38-year-old board certified ob-gyn based in southern California who specializes in complex gynecologic surgery and has attended over 1,000 births... “I know all about hospitals and all the things that go on there,” says Dr. Lang. “The more you look critically, the more nonsense you see.” Why did Dr. Lang herself choose home birth? Although with her firstborn she had a peaceful, unmedicated hospital birth, she actually felt safer birthing at home. “I’m among the most educated on this issue; I’ve done three years of extra surgical training on top of four years of delivering babies,” Lang says. “For me I felt home was the safest place to have my children. I did a calculated risk-benefit analysis. I knew that my exposure to risk by participating in some of the medical interventions would be higher. If you look at almost every obstetric outcome, it is more dangerous to give birth in the hospital. Babies have bad outcomes in the hospital all the time and a lot of the bad outcomes come when we have done too much obstetrical intervention, like exhausting the baby by hyper-stimulating the uterus.”
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 14:49:36 +0000
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