Any "high risk" homebirths? Can that happen? - Page 2

[SublimeBirthGirl]

One possibility for moms who can't get midwife care is unassisted birth. There's a UC board here on Mothering.

[mama_at_home]

I did not consider myself high risk, so maybe my situation does not apply, but I had my twins at home. Usually multiple pregnancies are automatically considered high risk in the medical community and are treated as such. I was VERY fortunate to find a midwife experienced in twin births. She did not view me as high risk, just different.

[MelKnee]

Any OB would consider me high risk. I'm old, fat and had a micropreemie. None of those things concerned my midwife.

[mamaverdi]

I have two live children. One early miscarriage in b/w. My second child was born with a defect that had it been detected *may* have risked me out of a homebirth. But as it was it saved his life being born at home. And it's a 1 in 100,000 type thing. Just a flook. Not even thought to be genetic, as in carried.

Having a homebirth saved my child's life. And my life. But that's another story that I've elaborated on elsewhere.

I don't know how the midwife I hired would have felt *knowing* that he had this defect in utero. I do know that knowing I had a child with a birth defect does not risk me out of a homebirth in the future.

If you're close to TX in Louisiana, you might be able to find a TX midwife to come on over....

[mammamoon]

I am feeling pretty hopeless with the possibility of a homebirth. The only doctors and midwives in town say that legaly they could get thier license taken away if somthing were to happen, bc I am labeled high risk in the charts. It sounds ridiculous but what to I say to that. My doc is a family friend and a realy liberal doc who supports homebirth completely, but you know to make it worse he is going to be out of town the week before my due date, so I might be stuck with his back up (my midwife will be there of course).

I am doing all I can, but they say it's the law of Louisiana, though I'm not sure that to be true.
Anyway, sorry this is surely not the place to vent about this problem, I'm am starting to feel like an outcast hospital birther. Thanks for the help.