HOME BIRTH

Home birth is the birth of the expectant mother in her own home, with the planned and necessary measures taken. During pregnancy follow-up, specialist doctors should decide that delivery at home is appropriate. Also, necessary measures should be taken to deliver the patient to the hospital quickly during delivery at home. This is called "planned home birth". Planned home birth is widely practiced in some countries in the world as a health policy.
To give birth at home:
- The patient should have been followed up during pregnancy.
- During follow-ups, high risk during pregnancy should not be determined and an obstacle to birth at home should not be detected.
- Mothers should not have conditions such as high blood pressure, diabetes, multiple pregnancy, and any medical illness.
- There should be no preterm birth.
- It should be accompanied by specialist health personnel during delivery at home.
- When a possible emergency occurs at home birth or when birth cannot take place, measures should be taken to bring the patient to the hospital quickly.
Why home birth?
The reasons why not all births are made in the hospital and encouraged home birth in countries that commonly apply home birth:
- The place where the mother is most confident about her privacy is her own home. Therefore, he believes that he can give birth here calmly, confidently, peacefully.
- Being with the mother's family and the people closest to her gives her peace and security and prevents her fears.
- The mother can move as she wishes at home without being tied to the bed. It can take any positions it wants.
- Delivery at home is cheaper than delivery at hospital.
- The mother will be in close contact with her baby in her own home immediately after birth. Mother-baby communication will start early. Therefore, breastfeeding success at home births was higher.
A lot of research has been done comparing the results of home birth and hospital birth. The majority of these studies did not find an increased risk for mothers and babies at home after birth at high risk pregnancies when the appropriate conditions described above were met. In some studies, home birth has been shown to reduce episiotomy and other interventions. Transfer to the hospital is required for various reasons in approximately 10-20% of home births.


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