Hear, hear, Ryn and Janet.

It really brings home the fact that if a hospital style birth is not what you want, don't go to the hospital. Better alternatives are out there. If lying on a bed attached to monitors is not your idea of birth, stay away from places that routinely do it like that. Vote with your feet.

I admire women with the courage and strength to fight for their right to give birth at the same time that they're trying to give birth. I took the easy way out because I knew I wouldn't be able to do both simultaneously .... I chose homebirth.