free births are almost always homebirths.
that is why they are put together sharon women can do what they please when it comes to birth, if they want to have a highly medicalised birth they can see a doctor or OB, it is not compulsary to see a doctor when pg.
your friend would have gone through a hospital backed homebirth scheme.. Independant Midwives you look them up have a chat then decide if you want to employ them.
Im sorry that you have been strongly suggested to have a cs and not thought to see what your other options are, but you still can you have a few more weeks to decide and research if you feel like you want some thing else.
Don't forget that everyone is commnting on a very small snippet of information - information that technically we should probably not know. So this isn't even a media beat up like it usually is.
To see both sides of the fence, maybe there could be blame, and hence why the police are involved. Maybe the Chiro or other person in attendance (if there was one) didn't think that they should call an ambulance till it was far too late - don't forget that a Chiro does not have the experience, knowledge or expertise to be attending a birth in the capacity of a 'care provider' for anything other than chiro so it would be unreasonable to even expect them to know until it happens that something wasn't right so it is a tragic catch22.
For the record, I do support homebirths 100% but I cannot support freebirth. maybe a with a very experienced Doula, but unless the mother or father of the baby is experienced in this area, how are they to know when something is not right? You don't have that objective voice of reason from a Midwife or a Doula to know that things aren't going as well as they should and maybe you need to think about getting extra help.
Either way this is a very very tragic situation and I hope that they are respected by the authorities and are allowed to grieve for this child as any other parent would be allowed to grieve. No doubt the parents are probably already torturing themselves more than anyone else could and I think that we should all try to understand the situation that led them to choose freebirth in the first place.
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