I had my second child at home and it was the most amazing, empowering experience ever!
Did you know that among low-risk women, planned home births result in low rates of interventions without an increase in adverse outcomes for mothers and babies?
A growing body of research confirm the safety and overwhelmingly positive health benefits for low-risk mothers and babies who choose to birth at home with a midwife. Birth is not inheretly a medical procedure; if we are left to birth in a safe space where the oxitocyn can flow, with a trained midwife there to provide a cool hands off approach, our bodies and minds are more than capable of not only doing it, but also turning it into a wonderful experience for birther, baby and partner.
I wont lie, it's still a tough gig, but birthing in the hospital isn't gonna change that, even if you do get an epidurel (trust me, I've done it both ways š)
A study published in The Lancet in May 2020 finds that "[...]outcomes among low risk women who began labour planning to give birth at home with those who planned to birth in hospital and found that, overall, those who planned to give birth at home were less likely to experience any of the intrapartum interventions studied (caesarean section, operative vaginal birth, epidural analgesia, episiotomy, and oxytocin augmentation). They were also less likely to suffer a 3rd or 4th degree perineal tear, maternal infection or postpartum haemorrhage.