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Sounds great! I moved from Taree where they had just started doing this. I would have given it a go for sure. It was the IM that started it at the hospital and it just meant that they had support and could follow thru care if someone needed to go into hospital! Its how they should all be run....well thats what i think :redface: Rant over now LOL
I posted this morning but it seems to have been lost in the ether!
We did a birth pool trial run about two weeks before the EDD. It took 15 mins to fill - we were living at the bottom of a hill from the water supply, so had great pressure. We also turned up the temp on the water heater after having turned it down for years for kid safety, so that we would definitely have hot water quick. The real thing also took 15 mins from start to finish - no way I would have been comfortable with an hour fill time!
I know a lot of midwives wont support breech birth at home due to the risks and possible repercusions. They will come to hospital and be your support person there instead. I think it's a little pathetic to be perfectly honest. To me, the point of working with an IM is to secure yourself a caregiver that can support you having a natural birth at home in many cases where you are deemed "high risk".
I'm surprised Sunshine wont let you birth at home if you have GD though! A birth centre will let you stay as low risk if you can manage GD with diet- you only get classed as high risk and booted to the hospital if you become insulin dependent. I think the Sunshine and Casey programs are a great opportunity for women to homebirth, personally though I'm glad I'm paying for a IM as I fretted about being classed as high risk and being booted from the birth centre last birth and I don't want to go through that again.
My midwife is booking me in through the Royal Women's in Melbourne- it's further away than our local major maternity hospital but the women's have a homebirth transfer system which is great. They respect homebirth and will allow my midwife to help manage my care and understand that while we may need to go there for some assistance, we don't want more intervention than necessary.
Kaos- Thanks for the space blanket over the birth pool tip!
Cassius- the waterbirth class was good, though I felt like I knew a fair bit of it from previous reading around. Can your partner look after your DD so you can go to the info nights? We don't have family around either but my H looked after my son. Means we couldn't both go of course which is a shame but I was in charge of picking the midwife so I got to go ;)
There really isnt much you need to know about a waterbirth that you cant read online (or ask of those whove BTDT). It was surprisingly simple. My middie and I talked about it quickly at one of my 2nd tri appointments but that was about it. I watched a video on waterbirthing as well. Dh didnt know anything at all and just did what Neanie told him to when the time came lol
If you havent had one before and want to see some pretty graphic pics of bub crowning and then being birthed underwater I have some beautiful shots of my last baby being born. My midwife is using them for a waterbirthing talk for middie students soon and I was looking over them last night; a few tears were shed and I actually really "looked" at them, I didnt realise how awesome it looked from the non-birthing side of things. In the shot where I pushed his body out you can see his little hand floating near his head..........
Man I cant wait to do it again :)
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