So, for all of you mama's that are planning a home birth, or have had a homebirth I was hoping I could get some help. My questions are actually about your family's support or lack thereof. My mom, who lives in the same town as me, and we are fairly close - at least in terms of seeing each other a lot. But she has been sooo negative about our choice to try for a homebirth. She likes to couch in terms of having twins, but she talked my sister out of a homebirth too so that is all just crap.
Anyway - I invited her to come for one of our appointments today in the hopes that she would get some of her worries calmed or at least some questions answered (because she wont come to me with her questions). I guess the hardest thing is that all of her questions were about whats going to happen when something goes wrong...how we are going to get to the hospital. It was so breathtaking that she just assumes something wrong is going to happen. I guess I was hoping it would improve our relationship, but it didnt.
Ok...so after all that my questions are these 1) did anyone else have a similar reaction from their families because of the twins thing? 2) Do you all have any good resources that I might be able to show my mom about the safety of homebirthing? and 3) can I just get some words of encouragement that my choice isnt totally out of control and that just because my mom isnt supportive, I can still have two happy healthy babies.
Are any of the pregnant twin mamas planning a homebirth too?
Anyway - I invited her to come for one of our appointments today in the hopes that she would get some of her worries calmed or at least some questions answered (because she wont come to me with her questions). I guess the hardest thing is that all of her questions were about whats going to happen when something goes wrong...how we are going to get to the hospital. It was so breathtaking that she just assumes something wrong is going to happen. I guess I was hoping it would improve our relationship, but it didnt.
Ok...so after all that my questions are these 1) did anyone else have a similar reaction from their families because of the twins thing? 2) Do you all have any good resources that I might be able to show my mom about the safety of homebirthing? and 3) can I just get some words of encouragement that my choice isnt totally out of control and that just because my mom isnt supportive, I can still have two happy healthy babies.
Are any of the pregnant twin mamas planning a homebirth too?