Home birth on the rise by 20%

PitaBread

Interesting article. No, I'm not nor would I ever have a home birth, but an interesting read nonetheless.  

https://news.yahoo.com/home-birth-rise-dramatic-20-percent-184157307.html 

gkmacdon

i know lots of people who have had successful home births (including SIL and my cousin)...it's just not for me. are any ladies on the board doing home births, I wonder?

for us, the negatives/risks didn't outweigh the positives/benefits of it. we're going with what is, to us, a "happy medium" - a natural birth in a birth center which is attached to a hospital. to each his own!

soon2bjmn

I am not having a home birth either, but the more I read the more safe I think they are. I think it's  really awesome that women have the choice to do this.

FrauElyse

If all goes well this time and I'm not high risk next time either, we very well might try a home birth.  It's good to see the stigma going away.  

skruhmin

We wanted to but we're too far away from the hospital and my family had major issues with it.  So we compromised and are going with a hospital that allows midwives to deliver (one of the few in Colorado - in Boulder - it's awesome they're so progressive there).