I live in Sydney, Australia.
I am Anglo.
I have a partner.
I am the first person in my family that I know of who has homebirthed.
I work from home so I can be a SAHM.
I have had three normal (textbook) births when I was:
- 27yo (hospital birth),
- 36yo (midwife attended homebirth)
- 40yo (unattended homebirth.)
We didn’t have a lot of money so we sold our car in order to pay the midwives fees.
I was unhappy with my experience birthing my first child in hospital because I received many unnecessary interventions that negatively impacted my birth experience and my ability to care for and bond with my baby immediately afterwards. I chose homebirth to avoid the medicalisation of most hospital births. I wanted to be in the comfort of my home where I felt safe and relaxed knowing that those two things would offer me the best chance of a drug free labour. In a home setting birth becomes a family affair and I feel it’s a place where bonding between mother and baby and baby and siblings is best facilitated. Since I was a healthy woman who had birthed well previously I did not anticipate needing any medical attention. I also prefer to birth without a crowd, with very little noise and low lighting and no interuptions or strangers which I could achieve at home.
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