Many women choose to have
births at home sometimes with family and close friends there to watch the childbirth of the newest member of the family.
Not exact matches
People have babies
at home all the time,
sometimes unplanned if the
birth happens quickly or if when active birthing arrives the woman simply is not interested in leaving to go to the hospital.
I knew what I and my babies needed to come out of
birth safely, and that's being
at home and by myself (with my husband by my side, since you never know what life will throw
at you
sometimes).
They tended to give
birth at home in a lying - in chamber which was basically their own
homes completely closed off to create a warm environment and
sometimes ward off evil spirits.
Sometimes women who give
birth at home or in
birth centers erroneously believe they can't have a rupture because they are not using Pitocin or prostaglandin gel.
Back in the 1800s, giving
birth at home,
sometimes with the assistance of a midwife, was about the only option.
A minority of CNMs and very few physicians attend
births at home, because of pressure from hospitals, colleagues, and insurers, and
sometimes because of legal restrictions.
Jennifer's argument here seems to be, according to the one anecdote she gave us (totally scientific, I know) that since doctors
sometimes don't perform C - sections as fast as a midwife wants them to, all doctors are stupid and giving
birth at home is safer.
From my understanding, even today, Jewish circumcisions are
sometimes done in this way, by a specialized practitioner,
at home, on the 8th day, and are in stark contrast from the circumcisions performed in hospitals on the first or second day after
birth.