Amen Ryn.
I'd like to speak to the comment that all homebirths are 'low risk' yes, they are in the eyes of particular mw's, who realise that if complications occur, they can be dealt with, at home, or in a hospital if necessary.
I know/know of women who have homebirthed (planned, by the way) breech babies, twins, after 2 ceseareans, with GD, all manner of things which the mainstream system freak out about and label women 'high risk' over.
The only person that matters as far as 'high risk' goes is yourself. If you refuse to be labelled thus, and are comfortable with that, or have a mw who is comfortable with it also, then a homebirth is only as far away as your desire to have one.
I would perhaps have been labelled high risk after my first birth, PPH, and 3rd degree tear, but I didn't bother to let anyone label me, I simply learned from the experience, and made sure the problems would not occur again by active management of risk factors during pregnancy. I wnt on to plan my second hb, I did tear, which healed exceptionally well after my mw stitched me, and blood loss was normal.
Unofficial but generally accepted transfer stats for hb are around the 20% mark, most of these being first time mums who have genuine 'failure to progress' and most of these go on to birth vaginally.
The number of TRUE emergencies are miniscule. And why is that? We go back to the original premise of this thread.
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