Homebirth General Discussion #12

**HotI** · February 22nd, 2013, 05:48 PM

Babies Arrived

Jennifer13- Baby GIRL born at home 4th January 2012
Bella29- Baby GIRL born at home 10th January
HotI - Baby BOY born at home 21st January
*Ash*- Baby BOY born at home 14th February
loulabelle - Baby BOY born at home 24th February
Cricket - Baby GIRL born at home 15th May
chocorama - May
...Em - Baby BOY born at home 7th June
BellyBelly - Baby GIRL born 11th August
Tanya - Baby BOY born at home 16th August
phynna - Baby GIRL born at home 8th September
lady_neon - Baby BOY born 27th September
Ambersky - Baby BOY born at home 3rd October
Cassius - Baby GIRL born at home 4th November
Ice cream - September
mirriumu - November
Pumpkinzulu - Baby GIRL born at home 12th December

- 2013 -
Sara - Baby BOY born 18th January 2013

turtlejane - Baby GIRL born 31st January 2013

Babies On Their Way

Ree*Ree - March

Shells79 - March

Aimz - March

Bellany - March

Beatrix - April

Rubyshoes - April

HomeStyleMumma - May

Dollyroux - June

ladybirdflies - June

sepata - September

WilliamsMummy - September

Arimeh - September

Cricket - September

Loulabelle - September

Dot Face - October

**Arimeh** · February 22nd, 2013, 05:54 PM

Welcome Dot Face!

HotI - can I be added to your list please? Another September one here

**HotI** · February 22nd, 2013, 05:55 PM

Welcome Dot Face! Glad you found your way here.

i think i have decided not to have another one, at least not now. Have been playing press your luck but finally organised some hormonal contraception. i think this is a good thing.

I got a lovely card for DS birthday from my back up midwife, who did my post natal care. Was lovely to be remembered. I think it must be more personal for the midwives too, cos they see us in our homes rather than a stream of women in a hospital room that could blur into each other.

**Dot Face** · February 22nd, 2013, 09:02 PM

I think I'll mention something silly the doctor said when I told her I wanted to home birth. At first her manner towards me changed and she became slightly more curt. Then she decided to rant a little about women who want to home birth and their midwives and proceeded to tell me of a worst case scenario story about a poor woman who tried to home birth but ended up in hospital and her baby died there. Then near the end of the consult (here's the really silly remark) she said "anyway you're free to do as you please and have a home birth if you like, just please...don't do it in a pool...because.....people drown" like WTH? Lady it's not some 300m by 600m super deep pool, it's the size of your average kids pool...I can't believe a doctor would be that ignorant?

**HotI** · February 22nd, 2013, 09:13 PM

yeah, like all the babies that drown inside in all that amniotic fluid.

**Dot Face** · February 22nd, 2013, 09:25 PM

Sadly, I believe she was referring to adults and not babies :/.

**HomeStyleMumma** · February 22nd, 2013, 10:14 PM

Welcome to our little club dot face

its so lovely in here I can't make myself leave even though I think ill birth in hospital this time so I'm sure you'll be very welcome and supported here. I'm on the other side of the country do have no idea about your options over there sorry.

Thanks girls. Cassius no I don't think she will be coming with me unfortunately, she didn't mention it and I really don't think we could afford to anyway. My dh is a truely wonderful birth partner (if I had to choose having him there or a mw I would choose him!) I am considering looking into a trainee mw or even doula in case dh gets stuck at work which is unfortunately a possibility, but I don't know if I want someone else there or not iykwim?

**TeniBear** · February 22nd, 2013, 11:07 PM

Positive thinking here - I WILL be on that list by the end of the year. I will, I will! I'm going to have a BFP in a few weeks, and I'm going to participate a lot in this thread...

Also, WOW. What a long list so far

Going back to the first list in the HB threads, they were only keeping track of three or four... Now there's at least one a month so far! How wonderful

**Arimeh** · February 23rd, 2013, 05:30 AM

September seems to be extremely popular - guess people were getting a bit lovey dovey around Xmas lol (well that's what happened here pmsl)

**Artechim** · February 23rd, 2013, 06:58 AM

Or cheaped out on Christmas presents for the hubby...

**Cassius2** · February 23rd, 2013, 07:27 AM

Or cheaped out on Christmas presents for the hubby...

Dot Face! Welcome!

I had to LOL at your GPs comments about drowning

I guess the moral to the story is that one, shall not, while labouring at home in water, feel the need to undertake the swimming of laps due to increased risk of drowning mid contraction hahahahahaha!
I am sorry though that you had to face such sucky, ignorant comments. I had that too, until i found a GP that reflected our values and actually knew a thing or two about HB (unfortunately a rarity!). i was once told by a really ignorant GP that sterile water injections were a lot of crap and nothing more than placebo and then proceeded to tell me that getting a shot of the water in the leg was a nice way to pretend to get pain relief hahahaha. i was like, ummm, first off, it doesnt go in the leg and anything you tell me here on in is like white noise.

and oh, the dead HB baby stories. they do like those. As though a baby dying at home is far more tragic and unpreventable than your baby dying in hospital...which it is not. study after study has shown outcomes for mothers and babies to be on par with planned hospital births.

Teni: 2013 has to be the year baby!!! bring it on!!!!!

**Jennifer13** · February 23rd, 2013, 11:30 AM

Dot Face, what the?? I take it you didn't point out that since the baby died in hospital, it's hardly a horror home birth story. I would have been tempted to be a smarty pants and comment on how it is terrible to hear about all these babies that die in hospitals. Or how the midwives are so overloaded that women end up giving birth alone.

Yay, Arimeh! Spring is a lovely time for a HB.

**Ree*Ree** · February 26th, 2013, 08:20 PM

Hello and welcome Dot Face! LOL at your GP, what a doozy!

Teni, I so so hope to see you posting in here a lot more regularly soon!

AFM, I am 39 weeks tomorrow and I think I'm ready now

Bubs' clothes, nappies and hammock are good to go. The birth pool and all its accessories have arrived. I've got a tub full of 'things' that will be needed for the birth.
Photographer and placenta encapsulation all organised.
DH has finished the ceiling renovations and I've cleaned up all the mess that entailed (DUST galore!)
So now we wait. I'm feeling great and not 'over it' yet. Though so many people assume I must just be sick of being pregnant by now and want my baby out, that presumption is just making me even more determined to be calm and enjoy being pregnant :P
Thinking I might start the EPO inserting soon....

**Cricket** · February 26th, 2013, 11:44 PM

Welcome DotFace!

ReeRee - so glad that you're feeling well prepared, and still enjoying your pregnancy! I know for myself I am SO READY TO BE DONE by that stage! Gives me a little hope that maybe this time will be different.

I'll be impatient for you though - I can't wait to hear your birth story!

**HomeStyleMumma** · February 27th, 2013, 07:45 AM

Ree ree I was thinking of you yesterday wondering how you're doing. I'm glad you're still enjoying being pg and everything is sorted for you. If you decide you want to make plans to do something (which often kicks off labour haha) pm me and we can meet up

**Beatrix** · February 27th, 2013, 08:00 AM

Rae- glad to here you ready to go!!

Had my 34 week app yesterday, my BP is holding well which is awesome for me. 19 days and my medical kits and oxygen get dropped off... so that means 19 days and we are good to go!! ekkkkk