The Impact of Home Birth

The Impact of Home Birth

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Stephanie Paterson has revealed evidence that home birth is better than hospital care in his opinion. The author has further suggested that homebirth should be legalized in the globe as the idea is sensible. Home birth can be a good idea or a bad; it depends on the way it is conducted, for instance, what is the level of experience and hygiene standards of the midwife performing the process. Infant mortality has been a challenge affecting the whole world at large, therefore allowing childbirth can be a way of increasing or reducing the mortality rates of infants. The article has illustrated both ways through which home birth can be a good and bad idea. The author has further argued that politics affects wise decisions that can help the economy. For example, having a look at the way home birth can change government hospitals and lower the income thus they may vote against the decision.

The author has first suggested the importance of licensing the home birth midwifery nurses.  The primary aim of doing this is to seclude those with profound experience. Childbirth is a section that should be handled with care and expertise, therefore where the nurse got the experience matters a lot in the process. According to research, some of the nurses gain experience through education from school and further it through the practice at the hospital while others just look at how the educated nurses conduct the process and go ahead to practice. They end up risking lives of the infants thus leading to high infant mortality rates. Jean Ritz died of anoxia in the year 1982, and it was caused by an infection at the uterus walls creating the rapture of the uterine wall ( Office of Chief Coroner, 1882).  Because of the above issue, all the surgeons and nurses were asked to come together and help save the lives of people by ensuring any nurse conducting the process should be licensed. The license will help the mothers know who can perform the process of giving birth and a  result they will save the lives of infants.

The text has pointed out the rivalry between the mid-wifely advocates and the medical surgeons of Ontario. The midwifery advocates went a step ahead after the arising of the debate whether to barn the home birth process, they went a step forward and started promoting awareness on the importance of it through posters and lectures outlining the importance of home birth. The debate continues up to 1980s, at that time another issue came up. The discussion was under the basis of the problems like governance and practice systems and curriculum. The process of homebirth was identified with a weakness of lacking space and place of conducting the childbirth process (MacDonald, 2007; Rothman, 1982; Van Wagner, 1991).  MacDonald (2007) has argued that unlike in Canada where home birth is not practiced, the European nations have allowed home birth and they use the mother's home as the space and place of conducting the process. He further suggests that home birth debate was not only based on the discussion but also the issue of governance and politics. MacDonald has pointed out politics as the primary factor leading to the debate.

The author brings about scale as the next factor of consideration in the discussion. Agnew (1997) defines the range as the level at which a phenomenon is studied or thought. Scale plays a vital role in allowing us to understand that the basis of the debate was wrapped to a discussion of contemporary issues of administration and governance. Additionally, the scale has provided ways in which the home birth was an advantage to the beneficiaries through the midwifery practice at the homes of the patients. The author has argued that the ABM acted as a barrier to the two scales that significantly contributed to the biomedical measures that are; body and home in the field. He has further demonstrated that the new midwifery movement interrupted but did not alter the childbirth process positively. It also didn't put a clear verdict on their first allegations on the bad and poorly governed birth care in the province for the decades that passed. The author aims at demonstrating the importance and role of home and body in social and political governance. The politics are not aiming at making the process better but reducing the domestic midwifery nurses and passing the law.

The article has confirmed that the only alternative place to give birth in the hospital, this is because the hospital is well equipped with the required instruments and the at the hospital there exist physicians who can look at the patient (Hazzel, 1969). Also, the author has mentioned the importance of having a second person who must a woman and understanding what the woman giving birth passes through during the process. Presence of equipment does not much guarantee the well-being of the mother and the baby. The childcare educators should always remember this every time they conduct the process. Lang (1972) has reasoned that medical technology plays a significant role during the birth process, for example in critical cases the machines helps in protecting premature babies.

Politics and its adverse effects on the decision making and passing bills is another issue that the author deals with the debates that came up during the process of introduction of biomedicine are as a result of controlling the number of midwives in the country and to give the market to hospital. They aimed at dumbing the traditional based medicine and market the modern medicine. Though the author supports the home birth, he does not support traditional medicine. The author’s text aims at supporting home birth to helping those who cannot reach the hospitals and need that emergency care. The midwives who are licensed to do that work can help them and improve in those in need to have enough access to medical care. He further suggests that the surgeons will never understand what the people at grassroots pass through (Paterson, 2014). They aim at supporting bills of which most of them have a political background.

The author has generally brought interesting arguments throughout the issues on home birth and hospital-based birth. Through Paterson, we have understood the scale of politics and the role they play on the decision and effectiveness of childbirth processes(Paterson, 2014). These arguments have brought a broader view of global medical situations, through the author’s arguments we can understand the importance of home birth. For instance, he gives his opinion that supports home birth. Basing on a situation a mother is giving birth on the way to the job in place, not near a hospital, she needs a home birth midwifery. The nurse will help the mother deliver and take her later to the hospital. Homebirth plays a vital role in Saving the lives of the infants although most of the medical officers have suggested that it leads to severe infections that can even cause death, as for the case Jean Ritz. What the author tries to deduce is that politics will never understand the challenges that the grassroots people pass through but those at that level knows, thus homebirth plays a significant role in saving lives.