Most people assume that choosing to have a home birth is all you need to do. Birth Plans are very much like a wish list or a menu choice. After all, we are living in a world where we often feel we know our rights to choose, we want it now, or others can be put to...
There are two ways you can look at this subject … failure or success. There are two ways you can deal with this if it happens to you … like a failure or with success. Transferring from a home birth is never anticipated or else people won’t plan home births....
The decision to have a birth at home is always a big decision. In some countries where there is little medical care, giving birth at home or in a birth hut is common. In countries where there is a comprehensive modern medical maternity model, home birth may be legal...
The Why, How and What of having a home birth. Why do you (let’s not do a general thing here) want to have a home birth? Here is a list of questions about why women choose and plan to have a home birth and their unique circumstances. WHY are you having a home...
If you have chosen a home birth or Birth Center, you may have an image in your mind of a beautiful, natural, comfortable process, but sometimes reality doesn’t correspond to our hopes and desires. A home birth hospital transfer because of medical necessity is...
Often pregnant families planning a homebirth think the common childbirth interventions (vaginal exams, listening to your baby’s heart tones, rupturing the membranes, episiotomy, sutures) done in hospital births will not be done at their home birth …. and... 