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Where will you probably birth?  

Poll Results: Where will you probably give birth this time?

 
  • 43% (42)
    At home with a midwife
  • 20% (20)
    At a freestanding birth center or hospital with a midwife
  • 23% (23)
    At a freestanding birth center or hospital with a doctor
  • 8% (8)
    Unassisted (no professional help) in a private setting
  • 3% (3)
    Other
96 Total Votes  
post #1 of 40
6/9/08 at 1:22pm
Thread Starter 
I wanted to make this an anonymous poll, to see if we might get more UC and hospital birthers counted this way. Just curious!

post #2 of 40
6/9/08 at 1:28pm
I don't see the poll...
post #3 of 40
6/9/08 at 1:31pm
Thread Starter 
I was working on it, sorry I got distracted by the boys!
post #4 of 40
6/9/08 at 2:40pm
I can't answer.

My hoping, idealist side says: home with a midwife

My pragmatic, realist side says: hospital with a midwife

My pessimistic side says: this one isn't going to last.

post #5 of 40
6/9/08 at 4:39pm
Hopefully in the hospital with a high risk ob (as long as I don't m/c again). I have had 8 m/c's and am on daily fragmin injections, daily low dose aspirin, progesterone, natural supplements, and go for acupuncture so I'm hoping everything works but all of that combined with my history (of m/c's, hemorrhaging while m/c'ing, and complications with DD's pregnancy) means the midwives here won't even consider taking me as a patient.

In an ideal world I would love to have a healthy low risk pregnancy with a home water birth but I'll be happy with a pregnancy that results in a healthy baby at this point!
post #6 of 40
6/9/08 at 5:13pm
I see it now

I voted UC... which today is what I am leaning towards. I really don't know when I'll make my final decision, I waver so much between homebirth with or without the midwives there.

The good news is I have lots of time
post #7 of 40
6/9/08 at 6:00pm
In a hugely medicalized research hospital with a perinatologist. Not exactly the homebirth I dreamed of, but it's what I have to do because of a medical condition (now, I'd *love* to rent out a hotel room next to the hospital since I'm an hour away from the hospital, and then stay there to labor until almost time to push...I may consider that to avoid the cascade of interventions).
post #8 of 40
6/9/08 at 6:02pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by elspethshimon View Post
I can't answer.

My hoping, idealist side says: home with a midwife

My pragmatic, realist side says: hospital with a midwife

My pessimistic side says: this one isn't going to last.
Oh mama!
post #9 of 40
6/9/08 at 6:04pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Eliseatthebeach View Post
Oh mama!

Thank you. Yeah, I'm feeling very anxious about this. But I did have some tweaks of nausea so at least I'm starting to feel it a little.
post #10 of 40
6/9/08 at 6:07pm
I wanted to have my last dd at home. I was in the process of switching mw's as mine cannot attend home births when I realized my dd died. So my regular mw took care of me in the hospital for the delivery. She was so good to me over the 24 hours I was there I don't feel like I could have anyone else deliver my babies.
Soooo having said that, as much as I want a home birth I don't think can leave my mw. I will probably deliver in a hospital with her.
post #11 of 40
6/9/08 at 6:18pm
I voted for homebirth! My last pregnancy was completely normal and healthy, so I don't forsee any reason why we won't be doing just that about 9 months from now .
post #12 of 40
6/9/08 at 6:34pm
I am planning my third home waterbirth with a wonderful midwife who assisted me with the birth of my third son.
post #13 of 40
6/9/08 at 6:47pm
In a hospital with a high risk OB.

My last baby was born at home and it was wonderful but I after 3 losses and a diagnosed clotting disorder I am officially high risk.

I am on heparin 2x daily plus aspirin and am just praying that I stay pregnant this time.
post #14 of 40
6/9/08 at 7:44pm
What I want & what I can afford are two totally different things. I would like to have a homebirth with a midwife, but I'm probably going to have prenatal care by an ob then have an UC here at home.
post #15 of 40
6/9/08 at 7:59pm
probably in a hospital, dh feels more comfortable there. I would love a homebirth, at this point though we are still researching our options
post #16 of 40
6/9/08 at 9:14pm
As long as all goes well I will be at home with the same midwife I had for both my girls.
post #17 of 40
6/9/08 at 9:30pm
In a hospital (with jacuzzi tubs in every birthing suite!) with my ob. I really really like him, and that's all that insurance will cover.
post #18 of 40
6/12/08 at 1:28pm
Thread Starter 
Mmmm, jacuzzi tubs sound GOOOOD. That's what I want too, so we're lookign to move into a place with a jacuzzi tub in the bathroom.
post #19 of 40
6/12/08 at 2:12pm
At home with a midwife. I've come to realize home is the only place I can expect to have any chance of a VBAC. The local birth center midwives don't do VBACs and the local hospital midwives will only let you try for a VBAC if you show up at the hosptial already 8-9 cm dilated, and even then it would probably be a fight. So even though I never dreamed I would have a homebirth, it's looking like that's what we're going to do! DH is being surprisingly supportive of the idea, too, even though he knows that getting insurance to pay for it will probably be an uphill battle.
post #20 of 40
6/12/08 at 2:13pm
Home, just like the others!
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