We're doing a homebirth hopefully with the same midwife I had for dd2; she's wonderful. She's been out of town, so I haven't gotten in touch with her yet. Dd1 was a pit augmented, epidural hospital birth with a midwife (who acted more like an OB in some ways). I had planned to go natural, but had no support and they put me on pit almost right away. My midwife put me on antibiotics for no reason and they made me lay on my left side the entire time. Then I had the nurses and my husband all constantly asking if I wanted an epidural.
So, dd2 was an absolutely awesome homebirth, no interventions, no checks, no monitoring - me just going on instinct of what I needed to do. I would have been totally cool with a UC, but my husband was not cool with that *at all*. He told our midwife and me that she wasn't really for me, she was for him, he was the one who needed her! haha Which is cool, I wanted him to be there, and he needed her support or he would have definately freaked out had she not been (he was really stressed and nervous even with her there). But she was really awesome and let me call all the shots, which is what I wanted. She said she could even stay outside our house unless we needed her. It turned out we needed her to help set up the birth tub because I went early and fast, so we didn't have anything ready. Since I had used up all our hot water in the shower, she and my husband were toting boiling water from the stove to the birth tub while I was laboring. So, they were kept busy and I was left alone, which is what I wanted!
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