Dr. Lisa and Ricki Lake Debate Home Birth on The Doctors Part 1

Actress, author, producer and talk show host Ricki Lake discusses her experiences with alternative birthing methods with The Doctors.

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[Shareallicu3]

The female doc is so defensive lol ;) I agree with Ricky, she's right, everyone else is wrong LoL

[reject37records]

"Take risks with your baby if you want" - OK, if I want to take risks with my baby, I will got to the hospital where they won't let me drink water or eat food necessary for energy in labor, where they'll keep me confined to bed, strap me to all kinds of unnecessary equipment, and then freak out when their equipment shows signs of a NORMAL labor, give me RISKY chemicals (like epidurals and pitocin, which btw, the fda has never approved to induction) then tell me I need CUT OPEN...

[diehardsweetheart]

@COULDNTthinkNAMEOFa It also depends on your age and pregnancy history. If a woman has a history of for an example, stillborns than she is labeled high risk. I would love to see your "98%" do better at home than in a hospital study. The glucose testing looks for hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) not just hyperglycemia, not everyones glucose levels are the same after the test and the point of it is to figure out if someone is gestational diabetes for SAFETY, not stupid

[diehardsweetheart]

@COULDNTthinkNAMEOFa Done, my doctor along with the rest of the doctors in her practice. She fully encourages me to go natural but if there are complications and medical interventions need to be done then thats what will happen and I'm okay with that. It's definetly not uncommon to find a doctor who is onboard with natural birth. Actually the infant mortality rate for a low risk pregnancy is not higher in a hospital, it's the same. I'm also not from the US, try again.

[COULDNTthinkNAMEOFa]

@rockisbetter

But when you put women in a hospital "setting" they get nervous which can slow down labor which leads to interventions and on and on...Doctors are not trained for normal birth. If hospitals are so great why then is the mortality rate for hospital births HIGHER for baby and mom than at home? Because home birth is safer. The us has one of the highest infant mortality rates and the HIGHEST percentage of hospital births....go figure!

[COULDNTthinkNAMEOFa]

@MistressUndress

The only women who r high risk are ones with preclampsia, diabetes and possibly some twin births etc. btw .Making someone drink 2 cups of soda loaded with GLUCOSE(sugar) then "testing:" their blood is stupid. Your body is in sugar shock and DUH of course it's not going to respond properly. Most women's test that come bk positive turn out to NOT have diabetes. 98% of women and babies are better off at home. Midwives visits r routinely an hr.compare that to a docs 15 min! lol

[COULDNTthinkNAMEOFa]

@diehardsweetheart

Finding a doc that agrees to let you have the baby totally natural with no interventions (which is best for baby) is way harder than finding a midwife that will take you to the hospital if needed.

Pitocin, epidurals etc are NOT good for mom OR baby and they lead to more interventions and c sections!!

csections are linked to breathing and nursing problems w the baby bc they are not squeezed through the canal and r separated from mom much longer and mom is unable 2 care 4 baby!

[diehardsweetheart]

@kevintimmins here's a great example, google the article written by the Dail Mail titled: "Is an obsession with natural birth putting mothers and babies in danger". What about the midwife who laughed and made belittling remarks to a woman who delivered a stillborn in September of last year? No medical professional, including midwives, is perfect. Not all midwives are bad, but not all OBs/Family Practitioners are either and it's incredibly uneducated to claim that they are.

[LadyLeesa]

Midwives do it all in Australia too. I should know. I am one.

[kevintimmins]

@diehardsweetheart please list them

[ShmeePadge]

Once again, "doctor" Lisa has got it WRONGGGG!!!!! It amazes me how someone so uninformed and close minded is allowed to practice medicine! What has the world come to? First she is completely wrong with the issue of infant male circumcision, and now with the natural homebirths! Crazy bitch needs to stop practicing medicine, I think we can all agree on that!!!

[diehardsweetheart]

Homebirths are just as safe, NOT more safe, than a hospital birth for a woman with a LOW risk pregnancy. Whether you birth at home or at the hospital, no one cares, you're not going to receive a medal for either one. Also there are shitty midwives like there are shitty OBs, midwives are not perfect and neither are OBs. I can list multiple times where a midwife has refused medical intervention which resulted in infant death, yet no one talks about that?