Hi everyone,
I just read through the homebirth thread and was delighted to read so many positive responses from women who had experienced homebirth themselves! What great inspiration :) I am also thinking I would like to have a homebirth but I have a couple of quick questions I hope those of you who have btdt can answer...
My two questions are:
- For those of you who did have homebirths, did you use an independent midwife or did you arrange a homebirth through the NHS?
- In the area where I live in London, homebirths are very uncommon and as a result the community midwives who work in my neighborhood have only been to a few home births each. Do you think this is a reason to be concerned? I realize that each of them have also attended a minimum of 40 births in the hospital as part of their midwifery training, but it sounded a little worrisome to me that beyond that training they really didn't have much experience in delivering at home.
Thank you all in advance :)