Dot face: I packed a hospital bag just in case and it made things easier when we did end up needing to transfer to hospital.
I also just felt more comfy before labour knowing that I'd prepared for the possibility.
The Mrs: I don't know the numbers and I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure it's quite rare for women to hemorrhage, especially for it to be that bad. There are several countries where homebirths are the norm, and really we've only been able to stop hemorrhaging for a fairly short time in history and we wouldn't have done so well if it was common for women to hemorrhage.
I actually ended up hemorrhaging, but even so it wasn't a "die within 5 minutes" type of thing. I lost a lot of blood but they had time for me to leave the room I'd birthed in fairly calmly and head up to the OR in a calm fashion. We were already in the hospital by this point and I can imagine that things would have been more rushed if we were still at home but we definitely had more than 5 minutes.
I guess you just have to weigh the risks for yourself (a big thing for me would be how long it would take me to get to help if something did go wrong). I personally wouldn't be particularly concerned about hemorrhaging, I don't think it's more of a concern than some of the other possible complications.
P.S. I hope you don't mind me posting in here. I planned to have a homebirth myself but ended up having to transfer and am just generally interested and keen on homebirths and like reading this section.
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