Would you give birth in a midwifery led unit?

[gobblygook]

I would love to but they wouldn't let me last time. At any rate never saw a dr during my births anyway.

I prefer homebirth to hosp birth. Freebirth even better.

[kungfubecca]

Ahh, Yes!!

I had a great experience, and there were doctors lurking about (insisting on doing internal exams pft) but there was no doctor present for the actual birth, just 2 midwives (during shift change) and a student midwife. Although I was in a public hospital I count my blessings that it was a quite day, because although I was induced in the end (much to my disgust) I was able to have telemetry monitoring, and was allowed to labour kneeling and birth bent over a bean bag.

It wasn't 100% ideal, but I was very happy with the outcome. I was one of the few people at our baby school reunion that didn't have a bad experience.

So a shout out to Belly Belly for helping me stay informed about my options.