If I have another one, my leaning towards a homebirth is half because of the intervention/constant monitoring (I'd be VBACing) and half because of the environment, I hated my hospital stay post-birth, and everything about it - the conflicting advice, the shocking food, the lonely days/nights if I had no visitors. So I'd much rather recoup at home, be comfortable in my surroundings, choose to sit in the lounge room, or in bed, or outside, choose when I eat etc.
So my wanting a homebirth is half because of the birth itself, but also half because of the time afterwards.
If a birth centre offered that exact same environment, I'd still want to stay home, because then the only difference is that I'd have to go to the birth centre while in labour, whereas a home birth I'd just stay home...
Hope thats the kind of answer you were looking for and I didn't go completely off topic!
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