In terms of a home birth, do midwives/some HCPs have to go in and inspect it’s okay for one? Like surely she’s telling her birthing team that’s what’s happening and they have to make sure it’s safe/clean
My midwife came to do a visit but it was more about checking access and exits for ambulances and things. My house is clean and tidy though, maybe if it wasn't she'd have flagged that up too
I know what she's saying with 'unwanted medical intervention' - with my first I obviously had no idea what to expect, but there is a 'cascade of interventions' that can happen. So they pushed me to break my waters to get things moving, then because I'd done that, they wanted to put me on the oxytocin drip to move things along even more. Then statistically once those things have kind of artificially moved you along to a certain point, you're more likely to have babies born by forceps or ventouse (forceps here, could feel them inside me, 10/10 do not recommend). I lost 1.5l of blood and recovery was horrendous.
Obviously I have no way of knowing, but had I been able to progress naturally and not been started off on those interventions, maybe my son wouldn't have needed to be forcibly yanked out.
The PBC course was a bit full-on with the home birth advocacy but... I had a home birth with my second and it was just a much more positive experience. I can see how and why people push for it. Calling contractions 'surges' to mind trick yourself into thinking they're not painful will never not be funny to me though. I think most people take what they want from the course and leave the rest. I liked the breathing and the science behind labour. I left the affirmations, load of
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Carries wording is always so awful and snooty. How can she be so unaware of the way she comes across? Like when asked if she's packed a hospital bag and she says 'well ideally I won't be at the hospital so no' it's such an arsey way to say it.