No I am not considering homebirth for 3 reasons
1) Havent really bought into the Midwive lead care.
( I think they are glorified citizens, they are not even fully qualified nurses.
Personally feel like they are the old wives in villages.
I know not many feel this way, dont mind being chided abt this opinion of mine.
but I dont feel safe with midwives )
2) If something goes wrong then I have to get to the hospital and PRECIOUS time will be wasted in the call-wait-transit-wait to checkin and all that. Dont have the heart to handle it all that wait if my baby is in trouble.
3) I will most certainly need an epidural. I am not a heroic mom who can go with TENS and gas and air or just pethidine.
I dont think there is any advantage in home birth and think all the touted advantages are too foksy for me to buy into it!.
Sorry if thats not your opinion.
I totally appreicate that you won't have a home birth. I, for the same reason wouldn't have one (although you're not allowed to have one here), because I would want immediate medical care if it was needed during or after the labour.
But in regards to everything else you say; your attitude actually annoys me. Midwives are
more thoroughly trained than nurses, and you say they haven't even had nursing training? Where on earth do you get
that from? Midwives are trained and experienced nurses before they can even go on to become a midwife. When they want to do so they have to go into studies all over again to be able to
specialise in midwifery. Your facts are seriously inaccurate, and you shouldn't be spouting them as gospel, because some other women on here will believe them and lose faith in their antenatal care. Where do I get my informaiton from? My MIL who is a retired midwife. She
did all that training that you say is non existent.
As for you "needing an epidural", that's total crap. You've lost the fight before it's begun. By that I mean that if you go in there with a defeatist attitude, the pain will defeat you. You don't even know the pain yet; how can you tell you will
need an epidural? Go in there with an open mind and you might surprise yourself.
I'll tell you this; I had an ingrowing toenail for many years. I had it operated on many times, but it kept coming back. I was terrible with the pain. I could hardly walk, I would limp. When I would get it seen by a doctor, I would cry with pain because they would touch it and pain throbbed through me. People laughed at me, and several doctors told me I had a "very low pain threshold". I dreaded labour when I got pregnant. I thought that if my pain threshold was laughably low, I would never get through labour without an epidural.
I went into labour, dilated really fast with really painful contractions. I contracted in the bath. All I had was warm water and Gas & Air. Let me tell you; gas & air does nothing for the pain. You still feel it, but you don't care that you feel it, because it makes you high. But it's still painful. The midwives kept asking if I was okay on the pain relief I had, or whether I wanted more. I said I was okay. I wanted to save my epi for when it got really bad.
Turns out I coulnd't have it at all, because I was fully dilated and I had to start pushing. Me, the person with the stupidly low pain threshold was a trooper through labour. Don't ever say you're not the heroic type of mum, because you don't know what you're capable of until you get there. From the horse's mouth.
I personally value midwives head and shoulders above doctors when it comes to pregnancy and childbirth. Doctors in the UK don't have a clue, because they're not the ones dealing with it. Go to the States and it's a differnet scenario; a doctor will deliver the majority of babies. But it's not the case in the UK.
)and feel so lucky to have such great collegues. My baby is the most precious thing to me too and this is why i am entrusting my care to my lovely midwife collegues.
