I didn't but seriously considered it but still 'chickened' out. But I was scheduled for family birthing centre but ended up in the hospital anyway. But I had a private midwife. She is god send. Had an amazingly positive
& empowering birth.

We also specifically chose not to go private because we didn't know any OB whom we believe would be aligned to our beliefs. My logic was the business model of an OB is to provide services so unless the OB is very aligned to us, it serves them & the hospital better to follow procedures/protocols which generally didn't quite work with us to prevent c-s. The alternative is to look for to spend $ & time to do OB shopping, which we didn't have a lot of. Disclaimer: im not saying all OBs are like that.

The choice is really yours. I didn't feel confident enough myself to go down that path, so I totally understand what u're going through. The thing that convinced me is my confidence in my midwife. If I have another, I will defo do homebirth with that midwife.