DIY Deliveries: More Women Go It Alone (US)

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Actually, freebirth is dangerous because freebirth is no support from family, friends or doula - if you pass out then that's VERY dangerous. A doula or husband makes it an assisted birth so if there is danger you can go to a hospital without needing to be concious.

I still feel, even knowing this, that I cannot bear to have so-called support around me and NO-ONE is EVER getting me to be a hospital in-patient again. It will not even be mentioned whilst in labour and to ensure that there will be no-one around but me and my baby. OK, DH can be there but with a gag on - he may at last give me the massage I wanted last time LOL.

[s361768]

I was under the impression that freebirth is unassisted if it is without the assistance of a medical practitoner (i.e. doctor, midwife), who carry medical equipment with them to provide medical attention if needed.

Freebirthing women trust in their body and own instincts while birthing not with medical people present telling them what to do and/or what their body is doing. This is my idea anyhow from reading I have done.

Don't get me wrong I am due in 3 weeks and am scared out of my brain, but can not overcome the severe anxieties of birthing in a hospital. I could not grit and bare a hospital again.

I am glad I have my doula and partner, I am concerned that I will not have a midwife present but can not keep dwelling on it because I can not possibly afford one. I just have to trust in my body that I can do this and that if something does happen I can transfer to a hospital.

On the issue of irresponsibility though, I guess it doesn't make sense to me to be calling freebirthers irresponsible when homebirth with midwife carries the same dangers/risks (and is considered by doctors to be just as CRAZY). I know of someone who had a homebirth with an experienced midwife present and it went horribly wrong for the baby. So a midewife being present (no matter how knowledgable they are) is not a 100% insurance policy against the dangers that could happen (in rare instances).