I have a friend who gave birth at home in a large tub with a midwife present.
She said it was a great way to do it and she highly recommends it.
It’s not always a disaster. You are just playing the odds.
Had mine in hospitals no regrets. Had an emergency once and was well pleased to be there.
My niece did the same, but I don’t think it’s safe.
You want a physician and a hospital for that one-chance-in-one hundred that yours isn’t the typical easy-as-pie childbirth.
People who have success at 18th century birth reenactments, are fortunate. My niece tried it and after a pretty long time going through labor they relented and went to the hospital and got severely scolded by the doctors because that baby was in the birth canal way too long. Thank God everything is okay and that’s when I came up with the re-enactment phraseology.
Why would anybody want to re-enact a birthing procedure that’s a couple of hundred years old maybe more when they have the finest medical Medical Care on Earth to have a successful delivery of a healthy child? They are hazarding the birth process if they’re not so fortunate.
For my second pregnancy, I went to a small, specialty maternity-only hospital that used midwives to monitor labor, with doctors available if needed during labor, and doctors to facilitate the delivery.
I had the most annoying midwife and threw her out of the room. You had your own OB-GYN but didn't get to choose your midwife; you took the one(s) assigned to you whose shift corresponded with your labor. Mine was aggressive, dictatorial, and looked masculine.
I re-lived that horrible experience while reading this article. Not hard to imagine that this is what socialized medicine would be like for all types of procedures.
This person only had her husband and a "friend" neither which had any medical training.