The thing for my situation here in the country is that homebirthing is so under the radar that when the laws do eventually change the caregivers around here need to know that people want it and need to know that people have been prepared to have freebirths without their ridiculous hospital and doctor collaboration.
What I'm saying is, lucky for you ladies who don't have to do booking in yourself or don't have to be the brave minority who front up with their homebirth plans out in the open. Really. Because I was one of you and then I moved to the country.
I KNOW how much easier it is for you metro people to access homebirth, despite restrictions on hospy programs...you have hospy programs! I wish we were all in a position to take for granted that we didn't need bookings in. Please be mindful in your responses of those of us who actually have a bit of a struggle to get what we have a right to plan. It is coming across as dismissive, just to let you know. It used to feel a lot more supportive in this section, and I'm in here to get the support I don't find IRL, increasingly in vain (in general, not just this section)