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I'm in a similar situation - trying to decide whether to try to find a back-up midwife. For my first birth, I tried to do it completely alone. My partner supported my choice but he was scared, which didn't help at all on the day... his anxiety made me scared too. I ended up deciding to go to hospital after a very long labour at home. In hindsight, this was probably a mistake, and if I had had a midwife to call on, maybe I would have been able to avoid the hospital. Maybe a midwife would have reassured me all was well and normal ... or maybe she would have packed me off to the hospital anyway. All the same, I still don't really want a midwife and I don't know how to go about finding one who will support something so unconventional.
This, THIS, all over the place... THIS! Except, this would be my first UC and I would be worried that something like this would happen opposed to it having had happened. ... and the midwife we are talking to wants a u/s. Time for my own thread.... thanks for showing it could be done and getting my gears going... :D
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