Yep! The home visits rock!! Home visits are not the norm here- it's mostly office visits! I've culled quite a few MWs because they're not prepared to do home visits as an option. To me they are one of the big benefits of home birthing. Those chats are wonderful and relaxing with the big kids milling around in their own space.
So, I met two MWs this week and loved them. Ugh! How to choose?? I keep flip-flopping. I'm lucky to have choice but I wish it was more obvious. I think I'm nervous after my past experience and keep second guessing it all too.
Kellbell: I love the home visits too! Every single appointment this pregnancy has been a home visit, and it is so nice - especially as it means I don't have to cart 1 or 2 kids anywhere. So glad to hear you're having a home birth So exciting!
Meow: That's great both midwives have been promising! But yeah, it makes it hard to make a decision! Did you click more with one than the other? Good luck making a decision!
AFM: I'm still trying to wrap my head around how close the birth actually is! Only 6 weeks (give or take) to go, and I can't say I feel very prepared. I'll see my midwife not this week but next, so I'll be asking her everything then.
My midwife has a birth pool that we will be hiring, but apart from that I don't know what else we need to do in preparation.
I am starting to do lots of reading/watching to get myself in the right mind set. I have my trusty copy of Ina May on my bedside table, and I have revisited The Business of Being Born, The Face of Birth and Birth Story, as well as a few YouTube videos of home births. If anyone has any awesome recommendations to get me pumped...
DH and I are also going to a couples workshop next weekend through my sacred birth yoga class - which should be awesome. I think it will be really beneficial for DH, and hopefully it will help him to be an awesome support person in labour. He can remind me of positions and different things to try, etc.
Right, I have DD desperate for something, so I better go!
A quick question The midwife says were to ring ambulance if baby comes quick and she's not there which is a possibility as last baby was 3 hours and that was stuck on a bed . Is this normal?? I really don't want ambulance officers in the house . Ill
Be ringing my midwife at the first twinge! Would this just be to cover herself so I don't free birth ?
Re: Homebirth General Discussion #20
So exciting!
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