Dont have a homebirth, you'll Die!

[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

[mummy2aiden]

Lol, yeah I had my daughter less then an hour after arriving at the hospital ... Though i was on my hands and knees on the bed .. Then I fed her for 2 hours while they got someone to stitch me .. I came home the next day .. They also didnt do checks or anything till 7am .. And she was born at 3:05am .. It sounds like you had a great birth too ..

[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:

[~Lashes~]

i had a ambulance birth, and im still alive, bub had a low teprature, from being born in a ambulance with all doors open at 6:50am but were alive and well. im sure having a home birth inside were its not as cold would be more benifital! (im most comfortable at hospital, but she didnt want to wait that long!)