Both my girls were born in the hospital. Anyone out there have a different experience like water birth, home birth or accidental car birth?

I just want to get in my 2 cents for anyone who may be veiwing this board and thinking about an at home birth. My advice to you: DO NOT DO IT.

You can have a perfect pregnancy: one that runs smoothly with no problems. You can think that bad things will not happen to you, that problems only happen to other people. But the truth is that delivering a baby is incredibly dangerous. There are a million things that can go wrong, from problems with the cord to problems with the baby, to problems with you!

Please take it from me. I had a great pregnancy with my first, but when he was born, he had breathed in so much amniotic fluid that he was purple and couldn't breath until it was all suctioned out. Other than that, he was a healthy, 10 lb boy. With my second child, I was in very early stages of labor when I got an abruption and have to have a crash c-section. If I hadn't have been at the hospital, my baby and I both would have been dead within 15 minutes.

Anyway, that being said, there are several hospitals now that do water births in these giant tubs that look like a small above ground swimming pool. I hear it's very relaxing.

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Christine's Corner



Mom to Matt, 3 years and Catie, 7 months!

A close friend had a water birth and she said it was worthless. SHe was in the same amount of pain. She had no pain meds. Not sure if she couldn't but that was what she made it sound like.
we have the same doctor and since the doc's certification didn't come in she also had a midwife who had done lots of them in the delivery with her.
allgirls

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Anyone considering a homebirth, or interested in the research based evidence should check out this article: Is Homebirth for You?

I, personally, have had a waterbirth and it was an amazing experience. My baby was so alert and quiet right after he was born and he stretched out and moved around in the water (with me holding him up of course!). So my own experience was certainly worth it.

Personally, I hate being in water. I don't even like to take baths. So that was definitely out for me!! I am waaaay too chiciken to have an at home birth too. There are just too many thngs that could go wrong. Plus my last 4 pregnancies were high risk. Also, I LOVED being in the hospital!!!!!

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I've gotta be where the drugs are! lol. Honestly i have never had drugs with either labor, unless the spinal for a c-section counts? I agree with a few of the others here, my ds was stuck in the birth canal, if it weren't for the emergency c-section at the hospital, he wouldn't have had a chance, me either since my blood pressure was dropping fast too.

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I also would not recommend a home birth. I had a smooth delivery with my 3rd baby. A few hours later I was bleeding kind of bad, but the nurse said it was probably normal. Sometime later, it became a problem. The nurse told me if I was at home, I would have most likely just fallen asleep and died. I wouldn't have noticed I was bleeding because it only came out when I stood up or she pushed real hard on my stomach. I just feel it's safer in a hospital, and I wouldn't want to live with the regret if something happened to my baby because I was at home.

I had pre-eclampsia so having a home birth was out of the question for me. I can definitely see the benefits to it, but if something were to go wrong, what would you do? My mom had a home birth with my little brother and because the social worker had to come to do the inspection of our home before the state would issue a birth certificate, guess who got to do all the explaining? Yep, you guessed it, ME, the 13 year old sibling. It was awful. My mom was supposed to do a water birth but my brother was a week early. Good thing too, he would have been born in a horse watering trough!!! Home births are NOT for me!!!

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Mommy to Dakota, Wife to James
Proud Air Force Family

I'd say it does! I didn't get a spinal for my C-Section! Did you know, that before they remove the spinal (For C-Section), they inject a shot of morphine? That way, you don't have too much pain when they try to get the blood clots out and for the first 24 hours, which are the worst.

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Christine's Corner



Mom to Matt, 3 years and Catie, 7 months!

Well... I did have my 4th daughter at home, this was not somthing we planned on at all, I live in a rural area and at the time I was finishing some paperwork before going to work and I started having contractions, so I told my husband I wanted to take a quick bath & we would go to the hospital ( my previous births had taken 3-8 hours) well I was in the tub about ten minutes and I stood up and my water broke and I knew I would not make it anywhere so my husband called 911 and the Sheriff of our town arrived about 10 minutes later, just in time to deliver her and about five minutes after that seven...yes seven EMT personal arrived ( I guess since it's a rural area there are not many home births and they would get stork pins for this experience...how embarrasing) they pretty much just helped the Sheriff put me on the cot and took my new daughter & I to the hospital by ambulance, lucky for us she was healthy & there were no complications....it was quite the experience, just a note when the Sheriff arrived I had asked him if he had done this before & he stated "oh sure" but come to find out, it had only been once and it had been 10 years earlier!! When she entered Kindergarten, his wife was her Teacher, very special people.