I cannot even begin to deal with so much of that opinion piece as it makes me so angry, but I can say that I am personally highly offended at the assertion that I am risking the life of my baby to have had her at home. On the contary, after much careful research and after my previous hospital experience I decided that it was in my child's best interest to be born at home under the care of professional, caring and committed midwives - at my expense!
Exactly - it's all about being informed and making the best decision for you & your baby!

I can imagine her story is scary for any mum but a little education would highlight the many flaws in her opinion. Her awful experience with a highly intervened hospital birth in no way goes to show that HB is wrong. That's like using an example of a teacher abusing a student in the classroom at school to demonstrate that home schooling is wrong. It doesn't make sense.

Susie O'Brien does a weekly segment on The 7pm Project and I am less than impressed with a lot of her opinions. Her closing argument tonight for why we should allow our kids to go to the park alone was 'Let's face it, some kids are safer in the park than they are at home.' Just astounding.
Ok, that has just confirmed she is an idiot! I wasn't even going to comment on her article b/c I felt sorry that she has a terrible time in hospital & at home with her births but sheesh woman, you need to get some perspective and find out what really went wrong & why before criticising a perfectly fine option / way to birth a baby.