This option isn't common in the US — with less than 1 percent of births taking place at home — but
home birth stories do pop up in the media thanks to celebs who skip the hospital, like Julianne Moore, Mayim Bialik, Alyson Hannigan and Cindy Crawford.
Not exact matches
I don't care if I have put my
home birth disaster
story out for the world to read.
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!»
And I've read scores of
birth stories describing women who have contracted midwives willing to
do VBACs, twins and much, much worse at
home.
I gave
birth to my 4th child at
home in April, my best friend gave
birth to her first born in my house last month, we got a dozen more chickens and hatched a few of our own this summer, we went to
Story Land and to Lake Winnipesaukee on vacation, built a large wooden swingset, landscaped our backyard, and
did several other
home projects!
Stories about interventions out of control, epidural risks, and what Pitocin
does to contractions was enough to convince me that
home birth was a viable option.
Does the fact that your question falls right between two tragic
stories of
home birth — injured babies, one of whom was born * yesterday * have any impact on you at all?
This is so amazing when moms share their
birth stories making it look so easy and she is calmed ill never take my chances and
do it at
home.
And I would bet that the hospital horror
stories are more to
do with the womens «feelings» about her
birth experience rather than the actual damaged / dead babies from the
home birth horror
stories.
From personal experience and hearing the
stories of many mothers in my city who have
done either or in some cases both hospital
birth and
home birth it seems to me that the majority, if not all, said they preferred the
home birth.
These
stories are certainly tragic, and while I didn't read the full
stories from the blog you mentioned (too sad; can't stomach), it
does sound like there is a lot of irresponsible stuff going on in the
home birth world.
But I don't see the educational purpose of these
stories — of course there are some tragedies, both in hospital
births and in
home births, because giving
birth is dangerous.
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.
They're worth reading, especially because you'll see when you
do that as of July 10, 2012, the blog had not been updated in more than six months and that some problems in these heart - wrenching
stories actually arose from hospital, not
home birth, mistakes.
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In today's super special episode of the
Doing It At
Home podcast, we are interviewing our own moms about our
birth stories!
I didn't tell anyone last time because a lot of people are against
home birth and tell you horror
stories.
Most people back in the states think we are little crazy / can't believe we are
doing this without family around etc, but truly we have never felt more supported than the community of people in our village, and little
did I know we moved to an area where most women prefer
home birth and have multiple
stories to share.
I love our
birth story & I'm so grateful to have had the opportunity to plan & prepare for a
home birth, even if it didn't work out that way.
In a compelling personal narrative that follows his farm animals from
birth to death, journalist Lovenheim brings
home the
story of the milk and the beef we eat, and he
does it by honoring the cattle and the people whose labor and lives feed a nation and a world.