Homebirth general discussion #8

A FB friend had her baby yesterday, She had posted about 'having to be induced' because she was past EDD. Today's post, the mum is in ICU. Not sure what happened, just so sad for them that their birth experience has been so medicalised and ended up in this way.

I am gettting sick of being sick. i just need to get my energy back, and then dealing with the normal stuff will be do-able. DS has colic, and possibly reflux. DD's sleep is shocking again and can't be left alone with DS cos she whacks him.

Bella, Jen- have you had the newborn hearing test done yet? we are booked in at local hospital next tues.

yeah I did HotI.. we did it yesterday :) so I told the hearing test lady all about my hb LOL!!! It was great!

guess who just set up the birth pool?! :)

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Oh really? Any reason? :) Hope all goes well for you Loulabelle, whenever the day is!

Your husband? I hope :lol:

SO excited for you loulabelle. You're amazing surviving a move at this time. All ready now baby :D

Woo hoo! Now you can def have a baby now!

congrats, I'm thinking about having a water birth next one :) just doing some research at the moment

Great news loulabelle! Bring on baby now!

HotI that's so sad about your friend. And of course people then use those examples to say how dangerous birth is.

We got ds hearing done at Melbourne uni school of audiology. It's free and they were so nice. Bub has to be asleep, so prob do it when older child is being looked after. Speaking of which, where are you based? Can I come and take your dd to the park for you? You sound like you need more help. :hug:

thanks guys. its very exciting. I just went out and got gorgeous fabric to cover the window in the bathroom incase it happens in the day time. for some reason in my head I want it dark with some candles. maybe its because of this bright hospital lights of my previous births.

hotI, I'm so sorry about your friend. have you had anymore news as to how she's going?

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I took DD2 up to the hospital for her hearing test last week. She had to be settled, not necessarily asleep, but still so the monitors worked. It only took a couple of minutes as she gazed at me.

Loulabelle - woohoo on the pool being set up!!

We had our son's hearing test done at the Mercy in Heidelberg. That lady was the least interested of anyone I came across about our homebirth. She spent ages looking for his hospital records before telling us that's what she was looking for and didn't ask anything about it when we said he was born at home... I think she thought he was "born before arrival" at first because she still couldn't understand why he didn't have hospital records :lol:

Meow, that sucks. Our lady was lovely and very happy to accommodate the administrative issues (and yes, she asked about the birth too). It's always surprising how many forms are not designed for HB. I feel like writing to the health minister about it! Only the birth registration form didn't ask for 'hospital'. Baby's health record did though.

Hmmm, I think I might send an email, what with HB on the rise and all! ;)

When I took ds to have his hearing test at the hospital I noticed my file had a hot pink post it note on the front saying home birth (talk about confidentiality). Then they said he was jaundice (all mine look terrible when they are born - DHs not so lively skin type). She did the light gun test three times, I kept saying he was happy, alert, feeding well , wet nappies. That he looked yellow but he was ok. She said I had to go wait for a dr to see my baby before I could go home. I pointed out that not in fact I could leave anytime I liked and I was choosing to get a hearing test done not a jaundice test! She said she would make a complaint to docs if I didn't see a dr.

Docs never called. My DH and MW were so sorry I'd gone alone.

Great health system.

Oh tegam!!! Oh that is terrible! Don't u hate that sort of treatment! A friend of a gf of mine just had a breech vbac, but they tried to make her have a court ordered c/s and called docs when she refused to consent. Apparently the maternity coalition had to get involved and that was what stopped them. However that poor mum..... She had had terrible reactions to the anesthetics when she had her first c/s and nearly died. That being said, I was on a forum she was in, where she related having told the MW who was trying to talk her into a repeat c/s, that she would stick a knife into anyone who tried to cut her open again...... She seemed like a very aggressive person and I doubt she either laid low or got the staff onside :(. Still I think they had no rights to try to force anything on a mum.

When I had maddies hearing test done, she was in a wrap and they just did it so quickly without trying to get me to get her out. And when I told about my hb, she mentioned she lived next to a mum who hb'd and it turned out to be a gf of mine:). Small world hey!

OMG Tegam! How awful! I can't believe she threatened to call docs! Because all home birth mother's a selfish hippies with no concern for their babies I guess. Grrr...

I can't imagine facing a court ordered birth Bella. These stories are terrible!

Apparently a baby had just died of jaundice in the area so I guess I sort of understood. But I am a nicu nurse. I'd probably seen more jaundice than they had ever seen. And as if I was going to risk my baby!!!

I forgot u were a nurse tegam :). Funny how so many nurses have hb'd these days :)

Try explaining to families in nicu and post natal why I chose to Hb! Lol