SO... Last week I met with a wonderful, very experienced, and, I gather, well respected in the midwife world midwife that is about 30-35 minutes from my house. She seems very intuitive and knowledgeable and I felt very comfortable with her. After I met with her I knew that I really did want a homebirth and that she could be the person that I could trust to keep me and baby safe. I sat on it Friday though, just because I'm my mother's daughter and cant make a decision to save my life. Then she called me Saturday and said that she doesn't normally call clients back while they're deciding what to do but that she felt compelled to because she just really thought that I was in a place where I was looking for more out of my birthing experience than the hospital could give me and since DS was with me and having a melt down while I was interviewing her on Thursday, she thought we didn't get a chance to talk about it as much as she'd have liked. I appreciated that.
Fast forward a day to this morning and I'm a nervous nelly sitting in the waiting room at the OB's office. My blood pressure was 122, which is pretty high for me, and if they would have counted my pulse I'm sure it was at least 80! so my OB comes in, we chat like usual and have the requisite quicky fundal height and doppler heart tones then I just said why I came in 2 weeks early... how I'd just had this gut feeling I didn't want to deliver in the hospital and that I really trusted her and that made it hard for me to find someone else who delivers at home. She reacted just how I thought she would react because she is the good doctor I think she is. She said OK, yay for you, you dont need me anyway! She said if anyone should be having babies at home it's me and that as long as I found someone with adequate experience that everything would be just fine. She said she would still be my MD if I needed to transfer for any reason and it all went very, very well.
SO... now I'm officially having a homebirth and can spend the hours I was spending agonizing over this decision on other things, like do I need a birthing tub or not and where do I get all the supplies I'll need.
I'm pretty giddy right now so Im certain that I made the right decision. woo hoo!
Edited by mamahen2coop - 5/9/11 at 2:40pm
