Does homebirthing make you want to have more babies?LOL

YES!
Immediately after the birth of #4 - very fast & traumatic but at home with my lovely MW and amazing DH I said "I never need to do that again" I was regretting those words just a few months later. She is now almost 2.5 and I am hoping to get pregnant this year I miss my MW and she misses us, she and my DH have a wonderful relationship

Keri

Right after my first twin came out, I was saying to myself I AM DONE! But only days later I was looking forward to my next homebirth.

I felt like Donkey in Shrek: "Hey! Let's do that again!!" Glad I did and we got our surprise girl to boot!

Yep! I was set on having only 1 child, now with #2 on the way, 3 sounds pretty good. This next will most likely be our last, though.

Yep, my daughter is only two weeks old and I already started lobbying DH for the 3rd. My pregnancy wasn't so easy, but I am hoping to be in much better shape for my 3rd. I am nearly back to normal... it's just a matter of getting my pelvis sorted (I had SPD) and my muscles back in tone. I can't imagine that Estella will be our last.

My first pregnancy was spent primarily under the care of an OB...as I neared my 8th mo, I got really freaked out about the hospital. We attended a lamaze class that actually told us we would all get an induction, epidural, episiotomy or C-section, so there was no need to talk about anything but what would prepare us for such things. I decided I would either find a MW or deliver my own baby!! LOL!! We ended up finding a wonderful MW, and had a beautiful birth to our first daughter, and of course, chose to see them for our second pregnancy. That birth went much faster (1st was 21 hours, 2nd was 6hrs) and I uttered sometime shortly before delivery that I never wanted to do it again. Naturally, as soon as I held my precious Ivie angel in my arms, I couldn't wait to do it again. She is 8 months old now, and I have been having pregnancy withdrawals for about 5 months. We've decided to wait a bit longer, but boy am I counting the days!! It is such an amazing, intimate, ambiant, brilliant experience....I would recommend every mom able to HB to go for it....AGAIN AND AGAIN!!

Yes. Though I wanted a big family before my first homebirth (with dk#2), having experienced a homebirth just makes the birth something to look forward to in and of itself, not just a means to and end.

I have a friend who is due a month before me, with her second. We were talking about birth, and I think she asked me how I handled it without drugs (she had a mw, but birthed in the hosp with an epidural). I said I loved labour and birth. I don't know if she believed me

YES! I'd give birth over and over again. BUT I never ever ever ever want to be pregnant again so I guess I'll just hang out in homebirth forums and live vicariously through others

I was in tears at the end of my 6 week appointment with my midwife, PinkPixie. I was just SO SAD it was over.
I'm less sad now, but now I just really want to TTC soon, but we have to wait for financial reasons, not to mention baby Winter is only 4 months old

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It is hard to explain, isn't it? It requires such a shift in perception, for most people... birth is supposed to be something scary and painful. Well, OK, it is those things too, sometimes, but it's also something powerful and amazing!