I’m hoping for my first child soon, and told my husband I’m going with a midwife for prenatal care & delivery. Childbirth is a wonderful miraculous thing, not something to be treated like a malady and interfered with to no end.
My daughter had 3 beautiful baby boys at a Midwife led centre here in Burton, UK. They gave excellent personal care and calming atmosphere. 2 she managed to have the water births but first one was on alert touch and go whether to call the ambulance for transport to hospital, but they managed to do whatever it was needed and he was born healthy.
The 4th one 7 years later, she wanted a home birth, but her prenatal woman persuaded her to have it in the local hospitals 'excellent maternity ward and they have a water birth option too'.
Anyway a terrible experience, so impersonal and she said it was like a conveyor belt, nurses so busy going from one patient to the other. The water birth they had planned was 'not available' when she was ready because not enough staff to supervise it. Fortunately they only keep you in less than a day here in the UK so she was home after 8+ hours, but relieved to be home!
Both places were free on the NHS but pays to choose wisely. 4 marvellous grandchildren 8 and 6 year old being home schooled and the other 2 younger ones will be too. Thank God for His wonderful gift of children!
Do it! I wish I would’ve known what I know now. I read Ima May Gaskin’s book and thought I could have a beautiful natural childbirth at the hospital. It was a nightmare. They wouldn’t even let me sit on the toilet to pee because the nurse thought I would start pushing. I finally was able to at nurse shift change and I sat there and was bladder shy. I clammed up. If I couldnt pee in front of people, I sure as hell couldn’t push a baby out in front of people with my legs all in the air and my hooha out.
I’m hoping for my first child soon, and told my husband I’m going with a midwife for prenatal care & delivery. Childbirth is a wonderful miraculous thing, not something to be treated like a malady and interfered with to no end.
My daughter had 3 beautiful baby boys at a Midwife led centre here in Burton, UK. They gave excellent personal care and calming atmosphere. 2 she managed to have the water births but first one was on alert touch and go whether to call the ambulance for transport to hospital, but they managed to do whatever it was needed and he was born healthy.
The 4th one 7 years later, she wanted a home birth, but her prenatal woman persuaded her to have it in the local hospitals 'excellent maternity ward and they have a water birth option too'.
Anyway a terrible experience, so impersonal and she said it was like a conveyor belt, nurses so busy going from one patient to the other. The water birth they had planned was 'not available' when she was ready because not enough staff to supervise it. Fortunately they only keep you in less than a day here in the UK so she was home after 8+ hours, but relieved to be home!
Both places were free on the NHS but pays to choose wisely. 4 marvellous grandchildren 8 and 6 year old being home schooled and the other 2 younger ones will be too. Thank God for His wonderful gift of children!
Do it! I wish I would’ve known what I know now. I read Ima May Gaskin’s book and thought I could have a beautiful natural childbirth at the hospital. It was a nightmare. They wouldn’t even let me sit on the toilet to pee because the nurse thought I would start pushing. I finally was able to at nurse shift change and I sat there and was bladder shy. I clammed up. If I couldnt pee in front of people, I sure as hell couldn’t push a baby out in front of people with my legs all in the air and my hooha out.