I had two home births with midwives and one hospital birth (also with a midwife)due to a higher risk pregnancy with some bleeding following a car wreck. My hospital midwife congratulated me on the most peaceful “professional” birth he’d ever attended. He successfully ejected all of the uninvited medical pros from my room, reminding them to knock and ask- and not touch me unless my permission was given.
My daughter had two c-sections and I would have lost her or one of my grand babies if she had delivered at home.
Pre-natal screening and a hospital back up plan are vital.
“Pre-natal screening and a hospital back up plan are vital.”
One of the main reasons that I morphed to UC Birth (Unassisted Birth) is because of the scripture in Matthew 24:19 when Jesus Apostles came to him and asked him for the “signs of the times” for when he would return again. His own words were “Woe unto them that are with child and give suck in those days”.
I believe the woe is two fold. One, medical birth has a host of traumas associated with it for both the mother and the baby. Two, we are at a time in our history when medical care as we know it in 21st century in America, may not always be available for us and our children.
I learned mothering self sufficiency for both reasons and it comforts my heart to have these skills.
Jenny