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doozerdaisy
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Am I the only one planning a homebirth?
doozerdaisy
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Is anyone else planning a homebirth? I realized that only 1% of births are at home, but surely there are others out there. Somebody? Anybody? Anybody's friend or family?
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Re: Am I the only one planning a homebirth?
And why are you planning a home birth exactly?!
GSx1 - 05/13/2013
GSx2 for T&B - EDD 6/21/2015 - They're having a GIRL!
Two of my best friends had amazing homebirths, both water births. I like the idea, but I have too many medical issues to even consider it.
It's not dangerous at all if you have a trained midwife and a good back-up plan.
Not my style. And, we are too far from a hospital that if something were to go wrong, it wouldn't be safe. I plan to use advanced medical technology for my benefit.
I have 2 friends that had complication free pregnancies that ended up in scary, emergency c-sections. What will you do if this happens to you?
I researched about the options long before I became pregnant and met with multiple practitioners OBs and midwives). My mom gave birth at a freestanding birth center and some friends have had wonderful experiences having healthy and happy homebirths. I am a good candidate for a home birth and live within minutes from the hospital. I will have two certified nurse midwives who will be attending my birth who together have attended 100s of births.
I believe birth is a natural normal process and a woman should give birth where she feels safest and most confident. For me that's at home.
My question was more in trying to find other homebirthers.
lol! I weird, not insane! I would consider freebirthing if my husband was an obgyn!
Thank you! I will try to find her.
Lol, ok just checking! By the way, I'm moving to KS in about 2 weeks!
i just looked up her name: jerimbato
after watching the business of being born i understand why women would want a homebirth. I hope everything goes well for you!
Not pregnant anymore, but homebirth was my dream :-( We live too far from the hospital, and it would have been too dangerous. GOOD FOR YOU...and I hope you get the exact birth you want. All but maybe one of the girls in my 3rd tri natural birth check-in ended up in a c-section (including me). I think without the cascade of intervention, the SKYROCKETING number of sections could be avoided.
I will do you one better, I have a friend who did a HBAC..but it was an unassisted homebirth. CRAAAZZZYYYYYY. Good luck! I know AnKa over on Money Matters recently had a HBAC, said it was amazing (and I am SO jealous!).
Me too!
DH and I considered it, but he didn't feel comfortable. Ohio isn't a very homebirth-friendly state.
I wish you luck though!
A friend of mine had a home birth 18 months ago, and it planning the same for #2, due in May. She had a really good midwife and her husband was very supportive the first time through, I'm hoping the 2nd time goes just as well.
Good luck with it, I don't think I could do it.....just don't go the free birthing route!!
I hope you like KS and good luck with your move. We're in the KC suburbs--Lenexa. I'm from So-cal originally and have lived here almost 5 years.
Thanks! I will try to find her. Thanks for your support!
I think you are confusing Mennonites with the Amish (Both are Anabaptist, the Amish broke off from the Mennonites because they go to modern). Mennonites around here even drive cars :-) Amish have their own midwives, etc. My best moment working at Walmart was selling a giant box of Magnum condoms to a Mennonite teenage girl.
Mrs. Frenchy and Pinksweetpea2 on 6-12 both had homebirths. We are VERY supportive of homebirthers over there, c'mon over!
And I have mad jealousy. If I have a #3, baby will be born at home. Although it is illegal for CNM to attend homebirths in Massachusetts. I'm not down for a lay MW, so I'll have to get that law changed, first!
Owen Anders: labor (natural onset), failed VBAC, emergency c/s.