re: #41 mmmirele

It’s things like this that make me generally against home birthing, because of the very real possibility that things could go south between one contraction and the next. I think being in a hospital birthing center is probably the best way to go. Too many women are going with poorly-qualified midwives and then there are the ones who insist they need no help. “Stunt birthing,” I call it, and it has had VERY bad outcomes. The whole point of birth is that mother and baby get through the process alive, not that mom has some sort of experience in a birthing pool or the ocean or whatever.

My late husband was born at home with a broken collarbone. Snowstorm, 1939. I worked with a guy who had no use of an arm since a birth accident. I don’t know anything about the circumstances.