It is so bizarre, but culturally normal, for veteran moms to share pregnancy and
birth horror stories with expectant mothers.
So many home
birth horror stories involve midwives who don't arrive in time, who have to leave before the baby is born, or who are overtired.
While I don't put much stock in home
birth horror stories as evidence that home birth is less safe than hospital (because I don't know how they compare to the number of hospital horror stories), I put even LESS stock in «I would have died if I hadn't been in the hospital» stories.
Don't let her dive into pregnancy books, scour through websites, and listen to
birth horror stories!
That would be a good suggestion — if other hb mothers and hb advocates didn't immediately say, «Don't listen to those home
birth horror stories!»
Don't tell
her birth horror stories.
The «
birth horror stories» may be happening in other countries also.