Ahurani - Tell me how any of us have said we want to risk our babies health. I will be extremely grateful if I get to take my baby home, but I don't think it's too much to ask to want to avoid trauma from the beginning. I actually think having the baby away from it's mother at birth is quite traumatic for both Mum AND BUB.. Just because the baby doesn't remember it doesn't mean it's right.. I also think skin to skin IS best for my baby instead of being held by a rough doctor away from it's mother being poked and prodded. Oh course if the baby had trouble breathing I would agree to intervention, but a lot of babies don't cry immediately and don't need to be suctioned, but it is treated like a medical emergency if the baby doesn't cry straight away... I'm not wanting a bloody miracle, just to have my baby with me after birth like it should be.

And this is coming from someone who DIDN'T let nature take it's course and put my babies through 12 days of medical intervention and all that trauma when they died anyway.. Maybe I should have put their needs 1st then, and not had them resuscitated, but thats a whole other thread!

Ellasmummy - That sounds beautiful