The Imminent Home Birth of My Son Judah..

The imminent home birth of my son Judah.

By Ruben Obregon

The controversy over home births made headlines when earlier this month when the American Medical Association released a statement supporting a statement from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) which stated that the home is not the safest setting for giving birth.

The ACOG statement was in response to Ricki Lake's film The Business of Being Born, a documentary about the maternity industry.

It should be no surprise that the ACOG took this position - after all, it is all about money to them - home births are a threat to their industry and their lifestyles.

Just as money for "therapeutic" abortions helped turned them to the dark side of "medicine", money is again clouding their "medical" judgment. (See http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/93/11/1810.pdf?cid=1810 )

So much for an organization that supports what some call "reproductive choice" - isn't home birth a reproductive choice?

My wife has decided that our home is the best place for our son Judah "Jude" Miguel to be born, and while I had some initial reservations - mostly due to a lack of information - I enthusiastically support her choice to do so.

Her midwife is very experienced with home births - and though my wife has some medical conditions which place this pregnancy in a higher risk category, so far all the indications from our son's perinatal cardiologist are a go for a home birth. On that note, the cardiologist can't understand the ACOG or AMA's position on home birth - he fully supports the option.

So barring any last minute problems, our son will be born in at home where both he and his mother can be comforted and cared for on their terms and not on the nurse's or doctor's terms in a maternity ward.

Little Jude is due to be born at the end of August, and when he is, he'll be born in a warm and safe environment and surrounded by his loving parents and his brother - and an OB/GYN won't be required...

(And if you'd like to do so, you can send Judah and his parents a "happy home birth" gift. ;-) )