Hi, I am pregnant, due sometime this winter, and I had my first baby in a freestanding birth center with CNMs.
I'm pregnant again (!) and really wanted to go back. Unfortunately, teh birth center is already closed. . .the midwives still practice, but at a local hospital. They say they will be re-opening "in a few months".
After my first experience with a natural birth, plus the fact that I went significantly past my due date, makes me feel like a hospital birth is just not an option for me. There is no OB in this town who would let me deliver a 9-lb. baby at almost 43 weeks.
I always liked the birth center and never considered homebirth before (they don't push procedures on you but you mess up someone else's place, you don't have to buy/rent equipment, they do the cleanup, wash the sheets, cook you food and send you home within 12 hours! Plus our insurance covered it.) but it looks as if I am going to have a homebirth with this baby.
So this week I interview a homebirth CNM, and a CPM next week. I am also going to see my old midwives to let them explain the situation to me fully, and get my charts. I am using and loving all the stickies here--perhaps I will be joining you ladies soon as I plan my first homebirth!
The silliest thing I'm worried about? We just bought our home in November and we have lovely, dark hardwood floors in the living room/kitchen, and gorgeous new berber carpeting in the bedrooms. Last time my water broke when I hit 10 cm and it was like a splash ride at an amusement park--really huge flood plus it didn't really smell so great
I'm really worried about having a birth tub in my home--doesn't that make me sound so superficial and snobby
I'm pregnant again (!) and really wanted to go back. Unfortunately, teh birth center is already closed. . .the midwives still practice, but at a local hospital. They say they will be re-opening "in a few months".
After my first experience with a natural birth, plus the fact that I went significantly past my due date, makes me feel like a hospital birth is just not an option for me. There is no OB in this town who would let me deliver a 9-lb. baby at almost 43 weeks.
I always liked the birth center and never considered homebirth before (they don't push procedures on you but you mess up someone else's place, you don't have to buy/rent equipment, they do the cleanup, wash the sheets, cook you food and send you home within 12 hours! Plus our insurance covered it.) but it looks as if I am going to have a homebirth with this baby.
So this week I interview a homebirth CNM, and a CPM next week. I am also going to see my old midwives to let them explain the situation to me fully, and get my charts. I am using and loving all the stickies here--perhaps I will be joining you ladies soon as I plan my first homebirth!
The silliest thing I'm worried about? We just bought our home in November and we have lovely, dark hardwood floors in the living room/kitchen, and gorgeous new berber carpeting in the bedrooms. Last time my water broke when I hit 10 cm and it was like a splash ride at an amusement park--really huge flood plus it didn't really smell so great
I'm really worried about having a birth tub in my home--doesn't that make me sound so superficial and snobby
