question for all who have homebirthed... - Page 2

[Mommy StormRaven]

I'm 2 minutes from the nearest hospital. Frankly - my feelign is that if it is going to go wrong that fast then it would happen whether I was at home or in the hospital. I haven't had my homebirth yet but I completley trust my midwife, more importantly I trust my body to do what women fro millenia have done.

I'm sure it will not be an issue at all as far as that is concerned.. my neighbors however may be another factor.. I live in an apartment!


Hi Lau! How much longer have you got to go or have you already had the littel bundle?

[Raven]

For my first birth we were about 20 minutes from the hospital and for this one we will be about 7 mins from the hospital.

I never needed to go the hosp for dd's birth - what a releif!

This time round i hope nothing will go wrong. The hospital we will be using a maternity home with an active birthing centre and my midwife will be allowed to be there and support me which is a good thing.

[annakiss]

20-30 minutes from the hospital I would have gone to. But what others here have said is absolutely true - for the most part, problems will be recognizable before they escalate to an emergency and most problems aren't knock-down drag-out emergencies.

[Sustainer]

Originally posted by Mommy StormRaven
my neighbors however may be another factor.. I live in an apartment!

I live in an apartment, too. There's an occupied apartment right below us, and another occupied apartment right next to our apartment (same floor). I was in labor for three days, screaming through every contraction. Then I pushed for 45 minutes, roaring like a lion with every pushing contraction. I thought I would disturb the whole neighborhood. I thought the other tenants would think, "that poor girl's been screaming for three days, and that lion finally got her."

A few weeks later the guy who lives in the apartment right next to ours on the same floor saw my dp holding my daughter and said, "oh, you guys had a baby??"

My mother (who was present for the birth) later told me that I wasn't actually screaming. She said it was more like loud moaning. It seemed to me that I was screaming at the time!

[Mommy StormRaven]

Thanks Devrock!

We are on the ground floor and no one is in the apartment on noe side of us - jsut across the hall and above us sothat should help. I'm doing a hypnobirthing technique called imagery birthing this time so maybe I'll be quieter this time.. who knows!

[JesseMomme]

Apartments lol

I live in a building...the people next to us had vacated a month before. But I had people underneath me, people across the hall (who share living room walls with us). I worried for a while too. I was pretty loud in labor (so I think anyways), and everyone in my building still thinks I went to the hospital to have the baby

I did take some comfort in the fact that if for what ever reason EMT's were knocking at the door, you have the right to refuse medical care and can send them on their way.

[Sustainer]

I had to worry that cops would show up and arrest my midwife! My state doesn't recognize the CPM credential. Midwives can go to prison for 4 years for attending a homebirth. It's been upgraded from a misdomener (sp?) to a felony!

[Mommy StormRaven]

Alice! Beleive me I understand! My CPM drives From Paris, KY for my appointments. I live in the cincy, Ohio area - any direct entry (CPM or DEM) is ambiguous here - it's not ILlegal but it's not legally defined either - I'm not much better off than you in that sense.