I havent told many people really as I don't expect many people to understand.

Friends are the most supportive I think. Not all but the ones that matter. The ones who know me well and respect my decisions.

I've really become accustomed to just nodding and smiling now. Plus I like that fact that its a part of my pregnancy etc that I can keep to myself because people just assume that because you are pregnant, you will go to hospital to have the babe. So I just let them assume and smile on the inside.

It really is amazing how uneducated some people still are about homebirth. I was on clinical placement a couple of weeks ago and I did happen to mention to the ward clerk that I was having the baby at home. She said "isn't that illegal?" What the hell is illegal about having a baby at home?!

You take the good with the bad I guess. I mentioned to my friend on the phone the other night about the possibilty of a freebirth and I was amazed at how supportive she was. She is a friend who I've grown up with since we were babies so she knows me well and knows that I would never make a decision which would put either myself or baby in harms way.