OK ladies, feel free to let loose your opinions here.
I'm not pregnant now, but hoping to be someday soon, with our third child. I've had two excellent hospital births, with relatively short, easy labours, and no tearing. Both babies were in great shape post-birth, with apgars of 9 and 9. I went home after #1 24hrs later, and after #2 about 10 hours later. I am really thinking about a home birth next time, but it seems like every time I mention that to someone, they have a comment about their cousin's friend's sister who had a baby who would have died if it had been born at home. :eek:
I'm not really opposed to hospital births - both times have been good experiences for me, but I would rather be at home, if all is well. What is the real truth about this!?!?!? I understand that usually everything goes well at home, (which is why I am interested) and that the intervention rate is obviously much lower, which is good, but if there is a slightly higher chance of baby/mum dying, I'm not sure it's worth it!
BTW we live about 7 minutes from the nearest small hospital, and about 20 minutes from the nearest big hospital (the one that usually does deliveries.)
So, what do you think?