Cassius you SHOULD be excited!!! It will be the best experience of your life! I too had a hospital birth and then a homebirth, what a difference!!!
I was so sad to have the final visit with my beautiful midwife, so much so that i want to have another baby so i can go through the amazing journey again! On that final visit she stayed for about 4 hours and we talked heaps about the birth. We went through everything and it was great to "de-brief". After my hospital birth, i didn't have the opportunity to ask questions and talk about my feelings about the birth with someone who was there and it was so great to be able to do it this time.
I wish you the best of luck and i can't wait to read your birth story and hear how you went.
Neenee: oh wow! congratulations!!! thank you so much for sharing your experience. in fact, it was just like that for me too at the hospital. they were just doing things to me and i had no voice. so not what i was after!
kymmy: yeah the de-brief is soo important. i really truly missed that after the birth of DD. i just wanted someone to go through it with me. i had no idea of apgar scores, times of labour (not that i was mega interested in that side of things, but just to give insight into how much they didnt tell me...i even had to ask what she weighed!). de-brief is sooo important and so so underplayed in mainstream maternity care it aint funny.
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