Is home birth a crime?

What is one phone call to the editorial office of TV Nova worth? Undoubtedly a lot – for example turning a blind TV eye to a potential future problem at the Podolí hospital. Only time will show whether something like that happens. However, after dialling the number, the head physician will certainly become a hero that can be presented on television as the one who rescued the child from his irresponsible mother. At the same time he is gathering arguments against home births in front of running TV cameras. That's also why the local head physician called the parents of the hospitalised child a few hours after he was brought to hospital and asked them for a meeting. However, he did not talk to them about the health condition of their newborn. Instead, he first let them wait for an hour and then, with almost no comment, passed them on to TV Nova reporters.

During her stay at the hospital, the mother was treated by the hospital staff as if she had planned to kill her own child. However, she wanted the best for her child and was experienced enough. She had given birth twice before, one of the births was home birth and she herself knows the environment of gynaecological wards and maternity hospitals very well. She is studying to become a birth assistant nurse and she has been assisting in dozens of births during her practice. Being able to see behind the scenes of hospital birth and her personal…