Natural Birth – natural birth is important to us and we see how difficult it is to achieve normal physiological birth in a medicalised setting.
Birth after caesarean – our birthing potential is in no way diminished by previous caesareans and many women birth beautifully at home even after several surgeries.
Midwifery model of care – we choose a model of care which asserts pregnancy and birth are normal physiological states not medical emergencies.
Experience – we choose to have the most personal, intimate moments of our lives take place in our homes where our children are conceived and surrounded by people we know, trust and love.
Avoiding trauma – we choose to remove ourselves from the medical system which may have traumatised us and our babies at previous births or choose to avoid trauma with our first baby.
Breastfeeding – women who birth at home have greater support and better experiences with breastfeeding.
Siblings – we may want to have our children at the births of their siblings thus including them in the ordinary miracle of birth.
Knowledge – we choose to be active and proactive in how we labour and birth and learn as much as we can.
Gentle parenting – we want our babies to enter the world gently, without harsh lights, unnecessary intrusive procedures and strangers.
Control – we want to have complete control over the environment in which we birth without having to negotiate with strangers who have timetables and ideas about birth that don’t match our own.
Memory – we want our memories of birth to be of hard work with passion and accomplishment. We remember how we first met our babies for the rest of our lives so we owe it to us, and them, for that to be on our terms and as beautiful as we can make it.
2008 - The Year of Homebirth Awareness
oh the hilarity! My blog is so quiet and boooooooring at the moment I thought I would post a bunch of belly pics to make it look like I am not a crap blogger LOL.
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