Yes, DIC is rare, and in the 25 some odd years of me working in a blood bank, it (LUCKILY), doesn't happen often, but it's scary as hell when it does; the scary part being it happens during or after birth, a lot of times with no pre-indication that it's going to happen. If you don't have the proper equipment there to help women in distress, (and I'm showing my igonorance here by not knowing what goes on at a homebirth), then it's negligence in my opinion. It also would make me feel better knowing that the home birth moms do have some sort of intial testing at a reputable hospital that can handle such a trauma if it were to happen.
Funny, I had a similar discussion with a very strict Catholic LJ friend of mine who was dead set against abortion, and the legalization of it (though she lives in Poland, I'm not sure of the rules there...).
I tried to explain to her that although morally I personally don't agree with it, (and I won't get into the details of why I do agree at times), as a health care worker, it absolutely HAS to be legal. I can not imagine if it weren't legal, what ramifications would be to women. It scares me.
Anyway, long rant, but yeah, ok, I see what you're saying. In healthy women, with properly skilled midwives, there shouldnt' be an issue.
And yeah, who the F*ck are these people to tell women what to do?
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Date: 2010-04-17 02:05 am (UTC)Yes, DIC is rare, and in the 25 some odd years of me working in a blood bank, it (LUCKILY), doesn't happen often, but it's scary as hell when it does; the scary part being it happens during or after birth, a lot of times with no pre-indication that it's going to happen. If you don't have the proper equipment there to help women in distress, (and I'm showing my igonorance here by not knowing what goes on at a homebirth), then it's negligence in my opinion. It also would make me feel better knowing that the home birth moms do have some sort of intial testing at a reputable hospital that can handle such a trauma if it were to happen.
Funny, I had a similar discussion with a very strict Catholic LJ friend of mine who was dead set against abortion, and the legalization of it (though she lives in Poland, I'm not sure of the rules there...).
I tried to explain to her that although morally I personally don't agree with it, (and I won't get into the details of why I do agree at times), as a health care worker, it absolutely HAS to be legal. I can not imagine if it weren't legal, what ramifications would be to women. It scares me.
Anyway, long rant, but yeah, ok, I see what you're saying. In healthy women, with properly skilled midwives, there shouldnt' be an issue.
And yeah, who the F*ck are these people to tell women what to do?