Home birth vs Hospital birth

spacepotatoes · May 2014

@florassecret I didn't mean to imply that there weren't options. Midwives can deliver pretty much anywhere, like you said. Just that where I live, we don't have a birthing centre so hospital or home are our choices. I'd love a birthing centre option!

EmilyGolden1 · May 2014

@empireceo thank you for your comment. I am in an alternative
Birthing center within a hospital. My DH was nervous about home birth as first timers---maybe for baby 2

usernewname · May 2014

spacepotatoes said:
@florassecret I didn't mean to imply that there weren't options. Midwives can deliver pretty much anywhere, like you said. Just that where I live, we don't have a birthing centre so hospital or home are our choices. I'd love a birthing centre option!

Oh I didn't even take it that way! I was just more intrigued that you have to be close to a hospital! I always find the differences interesting despite the same government/province/legisations.

pistolpackinmomma · May 2014

jenb_99 said:

Hospital. Though DH has volunteered to try it at home with his hunting kit. He watched my first c-section and swears it was no different than field dressing a deer.

He's special, that man.

Are we sister wives?? DH has joked about just doing it himself and saving some money. These men sure are special...

rainydayluck · May 2014

I have high risk pregnancies, so hospital for sure for me. Even if I wasn't high risk, I would do a hospital. I need the assurance that if I need a c-section or in an emergency, everything is right there, not a 911 call and ambulance ride away.

jenb_99 · May 2014

@pistolpackinmomma We must be. My DH was adopted; maybe he's related to yours and we just don't know it.

He actually stood on the gory side of the curtain the first time and kept saying how cool the surgery was. Ugh. Boys.

sthomas1222 · May 2014

rainydayluck said:

I have high risk pregnancies, so hospital for sure for me. Even if I wasn't high risk, I would do a hospital. I need the assurance that if I need a c-section or in an emergency, everything is right there, not a 911 call and ambulance ride away.

But the majority of transfers are not a 911 call and ambulance ride. A qualified midwife makes that call long before you're at that point, usually before you even go into labor. I have quite a few friends who attempted a homebirth and been transferred during labor. A few eventually ending up with c/s, hours after getting to the hospital. Seriously, very rarely is it a we need an OR in 5 minutes or less. There are signs and symptoms that show themselves long before you get to that point in the majority of cases. Yes it does happen. The midwife here I think has lost 1 or 2 babies, but in almost 30 years of practice. And in those cases even a hospital wouldn't have made a difference most likely.

KatieP71312 · May 2014

Thanks for that @sthomas1222 - I feel exactly the same way. The conditions to even get to a homebirth with my practice are stringent and if ANYTHING happens during labor we get in the car. No questions/discussions and that's the home brith agreement you sign when you sign up to be a patient in their care.

Also - there are MWs that don't operate this way. Please don't assume that all hbs carry the same level of risk; they don't. My friend was a FTM, signed up for a HB, baby flipped breech, failed an ECV and tried for the HB anyway. My risk tolerance, or lack there of, would NEVER have allowed me to try and deliver that baby at home and my MWs wouldn't have allowed it anyway.

sthomas1222 · May 2014

KatieP71312 said:

Thanks for that @sthomas1222 - I feel exactly the same way. The conditions to even get to a homebirth with my practice are stringent and if ANYTHING happens during labor we get in the car. No questions/discussions and that's the home brith agreement you sign when you sign up to be a patient in their care.

Also - there are MWs that don't operate this way. Please don't assume that all hbs carry the same level of risk; they don't. My friend was a FTM, signed up for a HB, baby flipped breech, failed an ECV and tried for the HB anyway. My risk tolerance, or lack there of, would NEVER have allowed me to try and deliver that baby at home and my MWs wouldn't have allowed it anyway.

Definitely! Hence my crazy ass midwife. When she started asking for non-evidence based testing I could tell she was operating in a way that wasn't for us. We no longer felt comfortable with her and we left.

Homebirths are definitely not for everyone but with a truly skilled and trained midwife the risk is a very minimal increase compared to hospital birth (something like 0.5% increase but that study also included the not so good midwives).

pistolpackinmomma · May 2014

jenb_99 said:

@pistolpackinmomma We must be. My DH was adopted; maybe he's related to yours and we just don't know it.

He actually stood on the gory side of the curtain the first time and kept saying how cool the surgery was. Ugh. Boys.

Mine stayed by my head but when they had just the butt out the dr asked if he wanted to see and he jumped up with excitement. The anesthesiologist was telling him that if he felt woozy to sit in the chair and I muttered something about him being a hunter so it was all good. He kept telling everyone about seeing him be pulled out. Weirdos.

jenb_99 · May 2014

@pistolpackinmomma Yet we continue to put up with them. Makes me wonder who the real weirdos are. lol

pistolpackinmomma · May 2014

jenb_99 said:
@pistolpackinmomma Yet we continue to put up with them. Makes me wonder who the real weirdos are. lol

We always joke when he thinks I'm being weird I say that he's the one who got down on his knees and begged me to marry him. He usually comes back with "but you didn't have to say yes". To be fair we each were more than aware of what we were getting in to. We were friends for 3 years before we started dating, dated 5 years, and have been married for 3.5!

cnbean · May 2014

I love the idea of a homebirth. But after my first pregnancy, which ended in an emergency c-section, I would not be comfortable doing that. And no provider around here would let me. I'm an automatic risk out of even the birth centers. But I have had two wonderful experiences at the hospital and so I'm not all that broken up about my lack of options.

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