How many people do you know IRL that had a HB? - Page 5

[Flower of Bliss]

I know many. A bunch of moms in my LLL, API, and baby wearing groups have had homebirths. I also know many moms who birthed at a local birthing center.

My aunt had one of her 2 babies at home, and my mom had one in a birthing center. Although I thought of hospital births as pretty normal growing up, I also thought of drug free births as normal, vaginal births as completely assumed, inductions as very weird, and c-sections as special case serious issue births. When I was pregnant with my first I wasn't comfortable with the idea of a homebirth (though I really wanted a birth center birth), but I was also completely uncomfortable with the idea of interventions.

[Mommy2anangel]

One somewhat close friend, and then 3 or 4 other mamas IRL.

[kat726]

Not enough...

Two people who've had them and one who's getting ready to have her first. I like to think I had a little to do with her and her husband's decision (paving the way in our family so to speak).

And yeah - I'm also considered a freak of nature for doing this. I'm the only person in my town that I know of. The others are friends who live far away. Though I'm hoping my sis will have a HBAC with her next pregnancy. She says she's not even going to GET pregnant unless she can find someone to HBAC her - her c-section experience was so awful.

[apple_juice]

Me!
My SIL had one and #2 is coming this week!

Other than that I know of 5 people frommy yoga group, 5 people from my play group, 1 unplanned HB in my oldhood, 2 planned in my new hood.

So I guess I know a bunch but it might have to do with the fact that I keep the company of midwives, doulas and birth activists.

[Lynda&Jenna]

I know lots. I live in VA and am involved with a local homebirth group. We meet monthly with our midwife. : )
Lynda

[patronia]

One. The mother of one of my school friends. She had a HBAC with her third child.

[cottonwood]

I know a lot, but I live in a progressive area with lots of midwives, where people hardly bat an eye when you tell them you've had a homebirth. I'd say maybe 1 in 5? And a lot of the people I know who had hospital births say they'd do homebirth if they had it to do over.

[Channelle]

Originally Posted by layla983

Don't know a single person whose had a HB. Well, my grandma had her first couple babies at home but that was about 60 years ago so I don't really count that. Everyone around me thinks I'm a freak of nature because I'm planning one. My state has less than 1% homebirth rates. Even birth centers are looked down on in my state, only a handful of them exist.

I could have written this word by word...

[mama*pisces]

I know two - a friend of mine that lives an hour from me and my step-SIL, but I'm not close to her.

[Chic_Mama]

Quite a few, but I'm a doula, so that is probably why!

[texmati]

none... except for my grandmothers, both of who had half their kids at home, before hospitals became fashionable.

[*Erin*]

2. my midwife, and my doula. eta, no wait, make that 3. my midwife, my doula, and a mama i met in the park recently.

[2+twins]

I know quite a lot, actually, but didn't at the time I had my first (I only knew one plus my midwives). Once we relocated to a crunchy area I started meeting a lot but before that I only knew a few.

[Kidzaplenty]

Besides me? Two.

[Delight]

I probably know 20-25 mamas IRL who are homebirthers.

[minkajane]

Not one. Zip. Zero. Zilch. I have one online friend who did, but I met her through MDC, so I don't think that counts. Only one of my friends has even had a vaginal birth. I even had a C-section. I'm planning a UBAC and I'll be the first person I know to have a homebirth, much less a UC.