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Good luck Maisie - sounds like you will feel a lot better at home
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1st baby homebirth
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Reidfidleir
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Me!!! The more I read about hospital birth here in the states the more scared I became.
This is my first pregnancy and baby and planned on a homebirth even before I got pregnant haha. I'm hoping even for a water birth. When some family members questioned I explained the most recent statistics and after that they were satisfied with why I had made this decision. So it seems like they are pretty supportive. My mother will be in town and she was a neonatal nurse for years so she'll be a great help after the birth.
Working with two midwives and they will have an apprentice as well.
This is my first pregnancy and baby and planned on a homebirth even before I got pregnant haha. I'm hoping even for a water birth. When some family members questioned I explained the most recent statistics and after that they were satisfied with why I had made this decision. So it seems like they are pretty supportive. My mother will be in town and she was a neonatal nurse for years so she'll be a great help after the birth.
Working with two midwives and they will have an apprentice as well.
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I'm doing a homebirth with my first and my parents and inlaws think we're crazy...I just want to tell everyone "I'm not asking you to do it and I'm not freaking out over the fact that you gave birth in a hospital." It's like people think we made this choice with no forethought whatsoever.
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thought i might just pop my two pence in. I had a homebirth with my first. And have just put on blog homebirth prep and will doing my homebirth story and my homebirth birth plan if you want to follow to catch up. link is in my sig
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Ooo I'm really late to this party! I haven't noticed this thread before. I'm planning a home water birth and this is my first. I feel really excited about it and am very comfortable that this is the best decision for me and baby, if I have to go in to hospital there's nothing lost at least I tried to have what I want. I only live 2miles away and it could actually be quicker transferred via ambulance if something happened than waiting for internal transport in hospital!
I've heard loads of negative birth stories and honestly ALL of them relate to hospital births, people seem so willing to medicalise birth without attributing any negatives towards the laying in a hospital bed on your back with epidural approach. Instead you get "well I had *insert intervention* so it was a good job I was in hospital, you're crazy" attitude. There is no thought into that perhaps, for some of these women at least, a less medicalised natural home delivery may have saved them the intervention in the first place. I don't know, people seem to have lost the confidence to even attempt to do something that our bodies are designed to do, without expecting worst case scenario, which I find quite sad. I would rather have a attempt at my ideal birth then be made fearful by stories have the baby in an environment I don't want to be in and then think, well I wish I'd had him at home.
I asked my midwife about statistics in our area and she said home births are definitely on the rise and she thinks it's now about 3% where I live but mostly 2nd and subsequent babies. I was genuinely shocked at how low that was. Since then I've realised just how crazy people seem to think the notion is I literally get a wide eyed 'really?' look when I say something as if people think I'm kidding.
On a more humorous note- when I told my friend (who is actually very intellIgent!) I was having a home birthing pool, she asked if you had it in the garden!! Haha
I've heard loads of negative birth stories and honestly ALL of them relate to hospital births, people seem so willing to medicalise birth without attributing any negatives towards the laying in a hospital bed on your back with epidural approach. Instead you get "well I had *insert intervention* so it was a good job I was in hospital, you're crazy" attitude. There is no thought into that perhaps, for some of these women at least, a less medicalised natural home delivery may have saved them the intervention in the first place. I don't know, people seem to have lost the confidence to even attempt to do something that our bodies are designed to do, without expecting worst case scenario, which I find quite sad. I would rather have a attempt at my ideal birth then be made fearful by stories have the baby in an environment I don't want to be in and then think, well I wish I'd had him at home.
I asked my midwife about statistics in our area and she said home births are definitely on the rise and she thinks it's now about 3% where I live but mostly 2nd and subsequent babies. I was genuinely shocked at how low that was. Since then I've realised just how crazy people seem to think the notion is I literally get a wide eyed 'really?' look when I say something as if people think I'm kidding.
On a more humorous note- when I told my friend (who is actually very intellIgent!) I was having a home birthing pool, she asked if you had it in the garden!! Haha
I totally agree with you. And I know, because I went through it! People think I'm nuts for home birthing after a hospital shoulder dystocia but the first thing I tell them is - Gee, don't you think multiple screw-ups from OBGYNs and nurses might have made it worse in the first place??? People really refuse to believe that doctors can make a normal labour much worse.
