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Things might go right the vast majority of the time in childbirth, but when things go wrong, you want to be IN a hospital, not just "affiliated with" a hospital. Just my opinion.
The WRAL article said that the parents declined to speak about it, so we don't know specifics. Can't say I blame them.
I had my first baby in a hospital (UNC) and my second at the Women's Birth and Wellness Center in Chapel Hill and I had a really good experience with them. I liked the Birth Center experience a lot better than the hospital and felt really well cared for and well monitored (had an ultrasound and all the tests, etc).
The midwives there did tell me that they had lost a baby once following the parents refusal for the Vitamin K injection for the newborn that helps blood clot (https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/vitamink/faqs.html). I'm not sure if the refusal was the direct cause, but the midwife felt pretty strongly that all babies should get the shot after that experience.
Just curious what could have gone wrong at these birthing centers to lose baby after delivery?
Most likely stuff that might have been foreseen if the person had been seeing a medical doctor.
There are way too many people these days acting like childbirth is a ho-hum experience....like many other things that we take for granted today, the safety of childbirth is due to understanding of and management of potential complications, preferably before they arise. This childbirth site seems to be lacking that capacity for whatever reason.
I read that they'd had trouble getting EMT service from Wake Med Cary, and this center is in the Wake Med Cary complex, actually.
Now, this is not to blame Wake Med Cary. Maybe they had other things going on at the time they were called to assist. I just know that if you run a center and cannot get fast, reliable transport to a hospital, you need to not be running a center.
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I suspect a birthing center draws folks like poppy dog mentioned, who refuse certain medical interventions, as well - moreso than the traditional hospital setting.
I've never understood scheduling C-sections around vacations, but different strokes for different folks.
Having had both a hospital birth experience and a birth center birth experience I greatly preferred the birth center and felt the level of care was just as good and in many ways better at the birth center. The hospital was fine, but impersonal —*I was left on my own more, had more unnecessary interventions, harder recovery for me and the baby. The care at the birth center was excellent and we were just 5 minutes from the hospital and (30 seconds from the fire station) if there was something the midwives couldn't handle, but I felt completely comfortable in their hands.
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