Dont have a homebirth, you'll Die!

[Schmickers]

Hi there mummy2aiden,

Facing misunderstanding or fear in the community regarding your decision can be frustrating!

I have lots of reputable scientific studies on homebirth at home, but I'm at work right now and don't have access to them. It's Dw's birthday and we are going out tonight, so I may have time to pop on and post some stuff, but it may not be until late.

Rest assured, your friend's ideas are based more on hollywood drama than on the real science around homebirth, and rvery reputable study that examined a planned homebirth with a trained health professional found that for women with low risk factors, it was as safe as hospital birth, if not safer. Your midwife can perform your newborn baby check, and if you would like a medical baby check, it can be performed by your GP or through your local hospital maternity clinic.

[mummy2aiden]

Thankyou!! I am single though .. so this probably is'nt going to be quite some time yet, if ever, lol... But its what I'd like to do .. I've recently had a vbac .. so a home birth is the next step

[willow5]

I would like to have a home birth too, but I really don't think I'm having any more babies I wish I had been a bit more educated with my first 2, I was more well informed with DS3 , but still didn't get to the home birth. *sigh*

(I noticed your ticker today is 3 months, 3 weeks & 3 days BF 3 threes )

[mummy2aiden]

LOL, i didnt even notice that on my ticker .. hehe

I wish i was more educated with my first too.. The "reccommended" epidural just incase .. ugh ..

My daughter was a VBAC so I don't think I trusted my body enough this time for a homebirth, unfortunately, but I know I can do it now ..

[Kazbah]

2 weeks was a long time for her to be in hospy - sounds like she may not have had an easy birth, and maybe that's where she's coming from?

I guess that the ultimate answer is that it wasn't until the 1940's that hospital birth became "normal", and it was Queen Victoria who pushed her doctors to find pain relief during birth. So the human race did pretty darn good until then to manage to survive. Sure, there were cesareans but these were only performed to birth a child during or after the mother's death ...

I've just been researching spinning babies (google it!) and they have a pile of positions to give birth in during the various phases / descent of the bub through the birth canal, to give optimum positioning - have a look, it's an entire science in itself!

[mummy2aiden]

Yeah she had a csection, then came down with pneumonia [already had a flu] so they kept her in ..

I used spinning babies info with my daughter .. My son was posterior, and I had a csection due to 'deep transverse arrest' .. Basically he didnt turn and got stuck .. I dilated fully, but it took a long time .. this time Ayva was posterior during the pregnancy so i used to come on bellybelly on my laptop with my bum in the air on my hands and knees to help her turn ..woulda looked funny though lol ..

[deletedit]

I sort of had a hospital 'homebirth' and I'm still alive ...

Had the baby on the hospital floor on a blanket I nabbed off the bed 1/2 hour after getting there. All the midwife did was play catch, and got me a milo and bikkies afterwards. I went home 12 hours later. They did all the baby poking and prodding aaaages after the birth, by which time he was quite thoroughly fed and snuggled

[trishalishous]

during the pregnancy so i used to come on bellybelly on my laptop with my bum in the air on my hands and knees to help her turn ..woulda looked funny though lol ..

it does look funny, DH took pictures of me in that 'graceful' position.
I had a traumatic birth (unavoidable intervention, I was resuscitated after a uterine inversion and major hemmorhage, all with zero pain relief) and I'm an avid home birth supporter.
if pregnancy number 2 goes to 'plan' ill be at a birth centre, and then pregnancy 3+ will be homebirth.
I would have free birthed if I'd not had complications.
I know where you're coming from, I've had zero support from people, and been called crazy, too! :hugs: