It seems like Spring is finally here! And my husbands birthday is only a few days away (for those of you who don't follow his count down on facebook). That means that April is almost over :) In May we open the pool and get out the summer clothing and in June we prepare for Hannah and in July... I hopefully will have a successful home birth. About three years ago I would have considered myself crazy to consider a home birth. We live about 1/2 an hour from ....everywhere. I was afraid that something might go wrong, but after having three children I realized that I was tougher then I thought.
I also realized that the medical system regarding labor and delivery has largely failed women in my opinion. In my experience all my births were normal (with the exception of a fast heart beat from my oldest), but it seemed that the medical staff had rules for "normal". I hated being in the hospital and was always glad to get home to my own bed. I was GBS positive for all three pregnancies and I'm assuming I am for this one as well. The staff always wanted me to stay for 24 hours of observation even though the risk for the baby getting anything was less then 1% (much less). Mark and I had read all the information and research and were confident that we could handle anything that came up (likely nothing will). It seemed to us that esp. with the last birth they were trying to scare us by telling us that the "danger" was not over yet (after we went for the next morning check up) and the nurse telling me that Abby might be dehydrated after she peed all over her. It was smile and nod time. It was irritating to drive back to the hospital (three times the last time) for the blood work. I'm really looking forward to having the baby at home , relaxing in a warm herbal bath after the birth (with Hannah) and going to bed in my own bed :). No more early morning drives, uncomfortable lectures and all this foot poking for the baby. The midwife will come here for the checkups and Mark will be home to take care of things.
I totally intended on finishing this post but my whole family got sick (except for Mark) - as I write this I have one crying at me :( . I will post what I have written and hopefully I can catch up on myself later this week.
I know Marian absolutely loved her home birth. I wanted the hospital for our first & then ended up being nonoptional so I'm glad God guided us then. I probably would have been tempted to try a home birth for my second but we waited so long (cause our town in Wyoming was seriously so backwards that I would have had to drive hours to find a doctor that would let me try a VBAC) and then we ended up deciding to call it quits.
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