I live in Brisbane, I identify as a white Australian, I am married, a stay at home parent and I have had one homebirth. I chose to birth at home because that is where I felt the most comfortable, safest, where I felt I would be truly sovereign, and where I could bond with my new baby uninterrupted.
My homebirth was my first birth (I was 28) and I plan to homebirth future babies. We don’t have publicly funded homebirth in Australia so we paid the nearly $4000 out of our own pocket to have an independent midwife in attendance.
I’ve not experienced birth trauma, caesarean, nor any variation of normal such as breech. My homebirth was very straightforward. My mother had all her children by caesarean (which she hated), my grandmothers birthed in hospitals, and one of my grandmothers was born at home. Everyone else in my family births in hospital (so far!).
ETA: Linn’s second babe, a girl, was born at home three years to the day from this first birth!
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