Just because you don't agree with it doesn't make it wrong. A women deservers the right to birth how she wants, and where she wants. Whether it be in a hospital or the top of a mountain.
Hospitals are not clean places, they are not the safest place in the world. Lots of children are born, and get colds after leaving the hospital.
Home births, could go in to many of the "concerns" people brought up here, our houses are not property clean either.
I think the problem with this, is people just don't know its really more common than they think. As a VBAC'er going to a hospital may not have been an option for me, because we have a lot of VBAC bans where I am. Luckly I am traveling 2 hours to a hospital that will allow it. But, a hotel birth was an option we looked in too. SHe is beside the hospital if something was to happen, if they got kicked from the hotel room, they can still go to the hospital.
As for cleaning, if they use sheets and protective covers, and trash this stuff on their own. There is nothing more than the normal sanitary stuff the hotel staff has to do. Its non different than a drunk guy shitting, and puking and shooting his semen all over a hotel. Or a drug addict shooting up in a hotel and leaving his blood splattered on the walls of the bathroom, or a fight that has broken out.There is some nasty crap that happens in hotels (beside giving birth).
IF you have a birth team who is prepared for this, they can clean as they go, they can keep things in order they can keep the mess minimized. In a hospital they aren't worried about this, and its just let the mess happen, clean later. Why? because they have a cleaning team that does this.
This is her right, and just because her midwife agrees with it, doesn't make her midwife a bad person either, or that she is doing some 'wrong'. If this is something you don't understand, or don't agree with, maybe its better you don't comment on it. A good birth team supports your choices, and is supporting off you.
Because nothing she says is going to change your views on it, and at the end of the day, this is her choice.
My guess form the comments here, and bout the placenta being 'biohazord' (Ummm people take this home all the time). the hospital may call it that, but you don't have to trash it. That the majority of people commenting have never had a out of hospital birth experience, or would even consider it.
lets talk about women that plan births in cars, in the hospital parking lot, because they don't feel comfortable in a hospital? lets talk about women who birth outside, lets talk about women who birth where ever they please. We have this right as women.
I'd never heard of hotel births before and it did sound a little unusualbut after doing some.research it seems its becoming a growing practice among women who want out of hospital births and have no other options -even some I've read were simply because there were too many people in their house and they wanted peace and quiet.
