• bleistift2@feddit.de
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    9 months ago

    Home-birthing is more risky, but a “70% mortality rate” is leaving the area of “overestimation” and entering “lie” territory.

    The neonatal mortality for US hospital midwife-attended births was 3.27 per 10,000 live births, 13.66 per 10,000 live births for all planned home births, and 27.98 per 10,000 live births for unintended/unplanned home births.

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32044310/

    I couldn’t find numbers for births without a midwife.

    Also, in 2020, the most recent year for which the CDC provides data, a total of 9 people have contracted the plague.

    https://www.cdc.gov/plague/maps/index.html

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      9 months ago

      That stat is for “midwife attended” ie having a professional do it, not “me and my husband”.

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      9 months ago

      I mean, yeah. I pulled 70% out of my ass, but my point was “idiot is neglectful”.

      My comment was not meant to be interpreted literally.