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James, Noah, Saskia, Lumi
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Ive been talking to my grandma as she had a homebirth back in the 1950's
My Mum was born in Dec 1952 at Home. Grandma said she was sat at home with Grandad and her waters broke. She rang the Midwife and the Matron of Midwives came round and her first words were " No men in the house until after baby has it's first feed"
Grandad was dispatched to the local pub and Grandmas 2 older children were collected by her sister.
My mum was born 5 hours later with no pain relief. The Matron took the baby out of the room before grandma was even able to know if she was a girl or a boy and cleaned and dressed. She was brought back and popped on the breast. The Matron cleaned up and got my grandma in to bed and then sent the lady from next door to collect my Grandad from the pub!
When my grandad came in the Matron said "Another Girl, Mr Brown" walked out and left
My grandma is thrilled we're planning a homebirth, she said it was the best of 4 births, Sadly one child was Still born.
Does anyone else have any stories from parents, Aunties, grandparents etc !!
xx
My Mum was born in Dec 1952 at Home. Grandma said she was sat at home with Grandad and her waters broke. She rang the Midwife and the Matron of Midwives came round and her first words were " No men in the house until after baby has it's first feed"
Grandad was dispatched to the local pub and Grandmas 2 older children were collected by her sister.
My mum was born 5 hours later with no pain relief. The Matron took the baby out of the room before grandma was even able to know if she was a girl or a boy and cleaned and dressed. She was brought back and popped on the breast. The Matron cleaned up and got my grandma in to bed and then sent the lady from next door to collect my Grandad from the pub!
When my grandad came in the Matron said "Another Girl, Mr Brown" walked out and left
My grandma is thrilled we're planning a homebirth, she said it was the best of 4 births, Sadly one child was Still born.
Does anyone else have any stories from parents, Aunties, grandparents etc !!
xx
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siblings were all born at home. We lived with my grandparents when we first moved to Yorkshire and I slept in the bedroom where my mum was born. My great auntie Clara was a doula. Not that they called them doulas then! 
but she was the woman in the small village who they called to care for the women in labour. The midwife who was obviously very busy with home births in that remote area at the time, would arrive rather like the mws often do at 'modern' doula supported births, when the woman was close to biting unless the 'doula' or mother felt they should be there sooner. The Mw arrived late to my mothers birth as she came straight from another birth in the village and that baby grew up to be a very good friend of my mums. 
