How did/does the non-birthing partner feel about a HB?

[meow]

Thanks for your replies. It's interesting- I guess there would be more response about partners who are not keen on homebirth, outside of the homebirth section

Thanks for your input clover. It's funny how your partner can be so certain he's against it- do you know why?

And it's a shame to hear many women say their partners are all for homebirth after watching them go through a traumatic hospital birth I guess the same could be said for the birthing women's perspective of homebirth a lot of the time too. It's outrageous the scars of traumatic birth that are being left behind on women with no action required from the hospitals.

[~clover~]

TBH, I think its simply coz he doesn't know anything about it, & just because its not the 'norm'. He was also trying to convince me that DS didn't need to be BF after about 15 months too & kept trying to convince me to wean. But then if I was ever worried about someone's reaction, he would be the first to suggest I tell them where to go. So I think while he's not comfortable with it himself, he does accept that it is my body & my choice, & as long as I'm doing the best for our kids, he's happy.

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Thanks for your replies. It's interesting- I guess there would be more response about partners who are not keen on homebirth, outside of the homebirth section

Here's one for you then :P

Mine is very much against the idea. It came up last night when they had that baby who died in a homebirth on the news.

His one birth experience was a totally uncomplicated, intervention-free good hospital one though, and we're back at the same hospital, same doc (not that the doc was actually there), same midwives etc this time so there's no compelling reasons to do anything at all differently this time.

That said, he didn't like the hospital food much so we only stayed there 24 hours last time. They sent the midwives/nurses out to our house to do all the postnatal check stuff for a few weeks afterwards, and because of our location we got a volunteer for a few hours a week to help around the house as part of the package deal.