What would you do?

[Guest guest]

I would really like my baby to be born at home in a birth pool. Only problem

is that I dont like my midwife and have no confidence in her (same one I had

for DS1!). She is really young, never had a baby and never understood my

worries or concerns. I cant afford a private midwife or doula, and as my

last baby was back to back, I need someone who I really bond with.

Should i just have it in hospital? Do I have any other options? I dont want

to change surgery as I love my Doctor, hes great, and its a small village, I

dont want to have to trog into the twon centre when i am not well!

Thanks guys,

Mum to Rohan (9 mths)

[Guest guest]

, I'd go for the home birth if I was you, but then I'm biased because

all three of mine were born at home! Is there only the one midwife in your

village? Have you discussed it with her? One of mine (I've had the same

team for all three), was single, younger than me, no children and she's

lovely, but I do understand that you need some sort of empathy with your

midwife. You never know though, she may be really enthusiastic about

homebirth and be a great help and support to you. You won't necessarily

have another back to back birth, second babies are often very easy births

(mine was - the midwives arrived an hour before and left an hour after Nicky

was born!).

It's completely your choice, but I know I'd rather have a baby at home with

a midwife I wasn't 100% sure about than in hospital. Was this midwife with

you for your last labour and birth? Because sometimes a midwife you're not

sure about for routine antenatal care can be a star when D-Day arrives.

I know it's another group, but a lot of us on coffee are also on this group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/homebirthUK

so you can ask lots of questions there, or else see Horn's website

at:

http://www.homebirth.org.uk/

where there is mountains of information.

HTH

Hannah

Mum to (4), Nicky (2) and Euan (7 months)

What would you do?

I would really like my baby to be born at home in a birth pool. Only

problem

is that I dont like my midwife and have no confidence in her (same one I

had

for DS1!). She is really young, never had a baby and never understood my

worries or concerns. I cant afford a private midwife or doula, and as my

last baby was back to back, I need someone who I really bond with.

Should i just have it in hospital? Do I have any other options? I dont

want

to change surgery as I love my Doctor, hes great, and its a small village,

I

dont want to have to trog into the twon centre when i am not well!

[Guest guest]

> I would really like my baby to be born at home in a birth pool. Only problem

> is that I dont like my midwife and have no confidence in her

, There are quite a lot of things you could do potentially and some will

depend on local policy and practice for your HA. It might be useful to do a bit

of background reading at http://www.homebirth.org.uk/ and

http://www.aims.org.uk/

Also the yahoo group homebirthuk (where you will see quite a few familiar names.

hth

james

[Guest guest]

> I was soooo looking forward to making him some

> yogurt smoothies which he loves and hiding some stuff he won't eat in

> them.

Try goat yogurt. he may do better with it than the DCCC which is from

cow's milk.

I think if he has no bowel problems you could cautiously try some raw

fruit. Pear is usually well tolerated.

>

Carol F.

Celiac, MCS, Latex Allergy, EMS

SCD 6 years