Homebirth in the middle of nowhere!

Hi Ladies!

I'm having a home birth!!!!

Today I spoke to a lovely IM on the phone who is going to come out and do a home birth at my house! super super excited!

Would love to hear other peoples experiences with home birth, particularly water births!

thats fantastic! cant wait to hear all about it

that is GREAT news! so happy for you hun. Look forward to hearing all about it :)

I dont have anything to add but YAYYYYY thats awesome!

my two cents are: i laboured for 29 hours, in a blowup birthing pool (sort of shaped like an oval) in my lounge room. It was amazing how the warmth of the water "got me thru" the contractions. I really was surprised i wasn't screaming for drugs. I expected the pool not to be comfy, i expected to get sore knees from the kneeling - but it was wonderful.

i didn't end up birthing in the pool (or at home), but i am glad i got to labour in water (and at home). The one thing i didn't do, was have a plan b. so i ended up having the "ambulance/hospital/emergency C-section" - being very tired and totally uninformed about the alternatives. So medical people i had never met before, were asking me questions "make a decision" - and i would have to say "what does that mean? what does that word mean" - i so wish i had explored the alternatives. I concentrated 100% on the home water birth - and had completely ignored any other sort of birth - this worked against me as it turned out - so i would suggest you explore multiple options - but hope you don't need any of the others.

i hope you get your home water birth, i wanted that so bad too.

Ohhh how exciting - congrats! No advice on homebirth (next one hopefully!) but as for waterbirth..... getting into that water was like sheer heaven towards the end of my labour. I knew as soon as I got in I wouldn't be getting out until after bub was born, and I truly do think it helped with crowning and stretching/no tearing etc.

Good luck!

congratulations! you should join us in the HB general chatter thread!

i recently had a home water birth for my second child and honestly could not imagine a more normal, and joyous birthing experience.

you can read my story in my signature :)

Thats great! good to hear plans are falling into place =)

Yay!!!! Good on you Outback!!!!

You've seen my waterbirth story :) So much better than the previous, non-waterbirth!!!!