Thank you for sharing your lovely montage!
In her own words:
TweetBirth: Our Journey Home
From hospital birth to accidental homebirth to planned homebirth. There were many reasons why we chose to birth our 3rd child at home, this montage shows a few of them.
It is disappointing and frustrating to see certain Australian medical organisations and prominent doctors scaremongering and attempting to mislead both the general public and government about the safety of homebirths.
As homebirthers we just want to be able to birth our babies in the safety, comfort and privacy of our home, away from the cascade of intervention and pathologising of birth that occur all too frequently in hospitals. It is the unnecessary interventions that are commonly performed in hospitals that increase the risks for mothers and babies. These days women have so many options regarding birth – they can choose to birth in a hospital, in a birth centre, to be induced for non-medical reasons, to have an elective caesarean. Why shouldn’t women have the option of a safe homebirth?!
I am not ‘brave’, I am not a ‘birthing goddess’. Simply, I am a woman, a mother, and homebirth is *my* choice.
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We will not stand by and let them take THIS away from us. Long live homebirth!
Thanks for dropping by! I know a lot of women will have found your story inspiring.