I was close. Louisiana is one of those states that ‘discourages’ home birth. It gets a LOT of attention from social services if you home birth. One of my college friends birthed her first in a kiddie pool in her living room. Said it was the only way to go. LOL. She got an unnanounced visit from social services though after she applied for the b/c. Chick tried to give a verbal proctology exam. It’s where the ‘we’re really curious what you were trying to hide with this home birth’ question/statement came from. Every state is different though. Some are pretty laissez-faire.
We talked about home birth with my kid. I wanted to but it gave hubby the heebejeebies. Good thing we listened to him. Her cord was wrapped 2+ times around her neck in such a way that there simply wasn’t enough slack for her to even exit the womb. Each contraction tightened the ‘noose’ around her neck and her vitals cratered. I got a ‘crash section’ and her initial apgars were awful. She’s fine now though.
I’m not anti home birth even now though. Both my parents were born at home.
But realize the system is set up to ‘encourage’ hospital births. And this is where they get those DNA samples.
So, if 0.7% of kids are born at home that means for 3M+ kids born each year, they have DNA for between 2.5M and 3M kids each year. This has been going on for 10+ years. So they’ve already got ~25M kids DNA samples stored. Never, apparently, to be destroyed.
Yes, I suppose it does depend on the state. All of my kids were born in Los Angeles County, CA, and we never had a single untoward query from them, or the state of California. The only post-birth visits we got, were from our midwife.
From the mid nineties until the mid 2000s, home birth was something of a growth industry out there. We had no trouble finding professional midwives, birthing centers, and natural childbirth classes. It was all very grooved in and ordinary.