Homebirthers? - Page 2

[CAUCmama]

Planning another UC. My first was a c section (long labor, giant baby in a funky position, and docs that refused to let me move or do anything sensible about it, LOL)

My second was a quick UBAC in the water, it was AWESOME!

So planning on doing that again this time. =)

[MotherMama]

Doing a little research on it, haven't decided either way. I will probably look at both free standing birth centers and homebirth...I have only had hospital births that were as natural as that setting allows.... I haven't decided on a MW yet (we just moved to a new city) but I have a few names that people have passed on. I need to get going on this TOMORROW lol

[Max'sMama]

Homebirth with the same midwives that delivered #2.

[the_lissa]

Originally Posted by ann_of_loxley

...I plan to eat the placenta!

Me too. I did last time as well.

[CAUCmama]

Originally Posted by the_lissa

Me too. I did last time as well.

you're braver than me, being a vegetarian I just couldn't even think about it without dry heaving, so I just kept shepherd's purse around instead and took a bath with yarrow in it.

[the_lissa]

Well I had it in a smoothie so I could not taste or feel it.

[ann_of_loxley]

Originally Posted by the_lissa

Well I had it in a smoothie so I could not taste or feel it.

I am a vegetarian as well and have been for nearly 13 years now!
Last time I didnt even think I wanted to see the placenta. But then I thought BF past a year as an odd thing to do - now id happily have a 3 or 5 or even 8 year nursling! hehe How you do change and grow! hehe...

I am going to eat some raw right away after the placenta is born. I plan to cut it up small though and just swallow it like a pill so I shouldn't taste it.

The rest is going in a smoothie I will put into ice cube trays to freeze so I can have it slowly over a few months

[the_lissa]

That's a good idea.

[RasJane]

Homebirth here too.
My first was in a hospital that was supposed to be natural. Wasn't so much, so this time I'm doing it at home. Of course, I've had 10 years of study and experience, so lots of things are bound to be different!

I also have only told my mw. She's a friend of mine, and since I met her 4 years ago, we've always talked about how cool it would be if I ever got pg and she could attend the birth. When I told her on Sunday, she just grabbed me and cried. I think she was more excited than me. Of course, that could be becuase she believed I was pregnant, whereas I'm still not sure I totally believe it.

[smockinghaze]

Homebirthing here too. Still deciding whether it will be attended or not

[lotus.blossom]

Originally Posted by CookAMH

Since I'm considering a birth center birth...what happened with yours leading up to the transfer?

Well to clarify, my birth center used to be unnattached and then they decided to attach it to the hospital, SO it was more medical than a freestanding birth center. I was on an invisible clock that they assured me didn't exist. I feel like I could have been in labor for days before I was ready to push but they really didn't let me progress like that. I HAD to walk the halls, HAD to use nipple stim, they HAD to break my water, I COULDN'T get in the birth tub, and they eventually hooked me up to double breastpumps to keep my oxytocin levels up. I felt managed and rushed and uncomfortable and after 30 hours of labor I decided to give up and get an epidural so I transfered and then all the stuff that comes with an epidural happened which led to my c-section.

So long story short I think that if I had stayed home I could have progressed slowly, the way my body needed to, and then saved up some energy for birth. Also had I known my son was posterior and asynclitic I could have done some techniques to turn him. and I certainly would have not had my water broken. Its amazing what a woman will consent to in the midst of horrible pain!!

[kriket]

lotus.blossom : Do you believe that the intervention led to your c-cection?
I was talking with friends about their births and I get the typical "you can't plan a birth" or "take the drugs you'll never make it!" or "well I wanted a "natural" birth but this and this and this happend, which had nothing to do with the intervention () and then I needed a c-section"

I feel like a starry eyed first time mom by not planning for absolute maelstrom!

[kdtmom2be]

Planning a possible homebirth here as well. Last time was a homebirth gone wrong turned C/S. I WAS in labour for days, also with a posterior baby, probably asynclitic as well. The only intervention I had was stripping my membranes on day 4, which I think led to my water breaking a few hours later, meconium present... THAT is when they started to actually "manage" my birth, getting me to walk, nipple stim, etc but by then I was SO tired. We transferred, hoping that an epi would allow me to rest a bit but that took so bloody long w/ 2 attempts at the epi and 5 attempts at the IV... more stress than I could handle.

Anyhow, it's got to go better this time right!? I am committed to working harder at optimal fetal positioning (I did last time but obviously not enough!) and being in better shape emotionally and physically.

Kriket, I will agree with whomever told you that "you can't plan a birth" BUT you can plan FOR a birth. What I mean to say is that you aren't going to be able to say exactly how things are going to go, but you can say if X happens then I want Y and my ideal situation would be this, this and this. Make any sense?

[bellee]

We'll be having our second home water birth. I'm so dang excited. I loved it so much last time. I've always joked that I could give birth once a month for the sheer joy of it

About the placenta, my MW dried and ground my and put it in capsules for me to take as a vitamin. I did not react well at all. I was very depressed and angry at the end of my PG and as soon as I took those pills, all those feelings came rushing back I'll just bury it this time around

I'll be using my same MW again this time

[bellee]

Kriket, I LOVE your hair! I grew dreads after my last birth, then cut them off 9 months later. I'm thinking about growing them back again. we'll see

[lotus.blossom]

Originally Posted by kriket

lotus.blossom : Do you believe that the intervention led to your c-cection?

I feel like a starry eyed first time mom by not planning for absolute maelstrom!

I was starry eyed just like you!! I skipped over all the c-section chapters in the books. All I have to say is that you must be prepared for the worst and plan and hope for the best!! There are sooooo many variables in labor and birth and you can never account for all of them. I was 100% reserached and positive that I would do it natural. I often think why me, when there are so many women out there that had perfect births by accident!

My first piece of advice if you are in a hospital is get a doula. Someone that you know, are comfortable with, is really knowledgable, and will speak frankly with you and can decode the chaos that is sometimes present in the delivery room!!

Ultimately my sons heartrate was deceling repeatedly and I knew that I was a ways of from pushing (stuck at 6cm for 30+ hrs) so that was the reason for my decision. I think it was part position part intervention related.

[LiLStar]

I'm HBACing

[burm_keep]

HBACing as well.

[ColoradoMama]

Originally Posted by bellee

Kriket, I LOVE your hair! I grew dreads after my last birth, then cut them off 9 months later. I'm thinking about growing them back again. we'll see

I've been thinking about them for months - I'm too indecisive (read Gemini) to commit though.

[iana703]

Going for a homebirth this time. I considered it last time but dh was sooo not on board. He has no choice now since the only thing I have done since having dd is hang around midwives, doulas and homebirthers! Anyway I have not decided on whether or not I want to uc. I don't think dh would go for that at this point. I KNOW that I could deliver my own baby and that everything would be fine but he wants someone else around to make sure he doesn't have to do much, grrrrr. I have called my teaching midwife to tell her I am pregnant and I made a meeting for mid-October. I will talk to her about ucing more at that point since she has done it 3 times already, two of them before she was a midwife.

My first was a pretty good birth in a hospital with a cnm and a doula. The only thing I did not like about the experience was the attitude of the nurses when I got there and I was only 1-2 cm. They were also kind of snoody about letting me stay in the water to labor and getting an IV. Luckily dd was born 5 hours after we got there and the midwife was totally hands off until she unwrapped dd's cord from her hand, she was holding it! I am looking forward to being in my own bed this time and not having someone come in my room every 2 hours.