Newborns have broken legs because their mother chose the natural method of giving birth at home

Newborns have broken legs because their mother chose to give birth at home

Recently, a boy in Russia was born by the method of birth at home has broken legs, cyanosis. The reason is that the two midwives are poorly qualified and cannot handle complicated breech births (also known as reverse fetuses). When the birth became difficult, they did not take the woman to the hospital but continued to pull the baby's leg out.

According to the couple, the two women did not call an ambulance because they were afraid to face "criminal responsibility" - an unqualified midwife. The husband recalled: "Two midwives tried to have a pregnancy. But when the situation got worse, they insisted on not calling an ambulance."

It was not until the woman became critical that two midwives took her to the maternity hospital. According to the husband, at that time, a part of the boy's leg was outside the mother's womb. The boy was born with broken legs, lack of oxygen and a number of other dangerous injuries. However, now she is in a stable state.

Give birth at home, should or not?

According to a letter from the Ministry of Health, people should not give birth at home, support themselves, vaccinate themselves, and cut their own umbilical cord. Although childbirth is a normal physiological process, but during labor, women need to go to health facilities to be cared for in the best conditions. Otherwise, giving birth at home without the supervision of a qualified medical team, serious complications such as: hemorrhage, uterine rupture, infection, fetal heart failure, tetanus are likely to occur. newborn, even maternal and child deaths .