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Lenny looks chuffed, thats too cute.
btw, you look so brilliant aswell, once again, congrats
Bigger than my little lass and she's seven weeks now. Bet your snatch is fucking sore!
Congrats anyway Suzy...
Lovely pics.
Well done and congrats. :thumb:
Congratulations to all of you.
From today all women have to be given the option of a home birth!
I now just have to work out how to talk the husband into it....
Technically they did before. The NHS have always had a duty to provide you with a midwife wherever you choose to give birth. It's just that in some places they've made it very difficult to obtain, probably relying on the fact that a lot of pregnant women won't be up to the fight at a time when they're fairly vulnerable.
Btw, did you use hypnosis at all? Interested to know.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6517771.stm
Well, for higher risk women I doubt it would be offered as her care would normally be referred to an OB. Having said that, even low-risk doesn't mean no-risk, but so long as women are aware of the risks and benefits of birthing in each setting and can make an informed decision from that information, she should be able to decide what setting is right for her. I wouldn't mind discussing it further in another thread perhaps?
One-on-one midwife care. Less likely to need pain relief, less likely to have any interventions, you're in a familiar setting, labour tends to be shorter as women are in a familiar environment to them so they're not going to have so much adrenaline buzzing around them, which slows labour down etc
I'm not planning on having another kid but if I do it'll be in the hospital again!