The Unique Advantages Of HomebirthThere's No Place Like HomeClick Here to Share YOUR Homebirth Story!
Homebirth may even be safer. It is certainly less traumatic and invasive. Interventions are rarely used and then only at your request. When you choose a homebirth, you are completely in control--not the doctor, or medical staff It is your space and your stuff. The midwife is a guest in your home. You are not the patient in the hospital. You say what goes. Access to your own yummy food Lemon ginger echinacea juice. Fresh oranges, kiwi, and sour green apples. Organic raw date bars. Gourmet dark chocolate. Organic nut butters. They don't serve this stuff in the hospital! If you've ever had hospital food--I don't need to say more! No interventions which can cause unnecessary complications Most midwives believe that women's bodies know how to give birth. They believe that the birth process needs no intervention. Midwives carry a few simple medical tools that they only use in case of an emergency. No arguing with doctors and nurses Arguing about procedures you do not want, is not something you want to be doing at one of the most vulnerable times in your life. You can have whoever you want present at your birth Your children, your friends and family, your cat, dog, parakeet, or pet lizard. No car ride to the hospital You don't have to get in the car and try to sit with a seat belt on through 5 excruciating contractions--or however long it takes you to get to the hospital. You don't have to pack up to go home after you have the baby You are already home and can room in for as long as you want. Your own comfy bed to crawl into after birth Snuggling with your brand new babe in fresh clean sheets is one of life's simple pleasures. You can labor and give birth in water You can birth in a special birth pool or in your own bathtub. Some hospitals offer tubs for laboring in, but most hospitals do not allow actual waterbirths. You are never separated from your baby The newborn exam can be done right in your arms. Baby doesn't need to be bathed, wiped off, or otherwise taken from you. Hospitals will often take baby away for the newborn exam, for a period of observation, or because "you need your rest". Relaxed atmosphere The hospital is sterile, bright, impersonal, and unfamiliar. You give birth best where you are most relaxed and comfortable. The body tends to shut down the birth process in an unfamiliar environment. You are free to be yourself You're not inhibited in your own space. You can make noise, move around, and wear whatever you want (including your birthday suit).
Like my mother says after having had two hospital births and one homebirth,"There is just no comparison". Giving birth at home keeps birth from being treated as an emergency. It makes birth part of the flow of your normal life. It reveals birth as what it is-- an everyday miracle!
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