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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend and her DH really felt bullied into a C-section at Sibley on their first birth.  They did a home birth on the 2nd baby -- 2 pounds larger and a  much happier experience. [/quote]

Your friend is an irresponsible idiot. [/quote]

NP and you are truly the idiot. You might wish to check your bias at the door if you want to be a productive contribution to this board and probably society as a whole.

OP- you're better off focusing on a midwife or OB practice that has low c-section rates and low interventions. [/quote]

Home birth is irresponsible. It’s people’s choice to have one, but the infant mortality rates of home birth in the US and the fact that in an emergent medical situation you will not have access to the full scope of medical care and services you may need (forceps, vacuum, C section, blood in the event of you hemorrhaging, imaging, etc) should be a reason to avoid it. Is an uncomplicated homebirth likely to be a better experience for mom? Sure. But making the quality of your experience in one day the focus of your decision making (rather than the bigger goal of having a healthy child for the rest of your life and your child’s life) is a mistake. You have no idea if your birth will be complicated or not until is is over. And while there are things you can do to stack the deck in your favor to have an uncomplicated birth, at the end of the day it is a huge roll of the dice as all sorts of problems can come up from out of the blue during delivery, which you often cannot anticipate. And that have nothing to do with if you did prenatal yoga, ate well, and exercised.

Also, midwives have low C section rates because they cannot perform them. They also don’t do vacuum or forceps births. This can mean they use more creative techniques to get babies out vaginally, but it can also mean they do crazy things (like purple push for HOURS!) that can damage women and their pelvic floors permanently for the goal of getting the baby out the vagina. Your vagina is going to be with you the rest of your life - if you injure it or your rectum during birth, it is often not easily fixed and can mean incontinence (flatal, urinary, fecal), severe tears, difficult recovery, chronic pain, dissatisfying sex, inability to wear tampons, pelvic organ prolapse, and a bunch of other stuff. Not to say these things don’t sometimes happen with C sections, but with a scheduled C section if you don’t go into labor you will absolutely not risk tearing your vagina or pelvic floor muscles. [/quote]

I was with the midwives and had a forceps birth. It was a horrible horrible 49 hour long birth experience, but they will do them if needed. I was begging for a C section, and they wouldn't do it, saying, You told us and in your birth plan you didn't want one. I just wanted that kid out. My second child, I received care through the midwives, but then convinced them I needed a scheduled C (I had PTSD after my first) and they gave in. That was a 3 hour only slightly uncomfortable experience. What I am trying to say is that you don't know what you don't know as a first time parent. I bought in 100% to wanting a super organic hippie birth, and I did not have that. You don't know what your body will do. Be open to whatever the safest experience is, and focus more on the after birth time. Do not buy into any philosophy around birth. There will be so many decisions in those first years that make you nervous, but in this case, you just want that kid out and safely. [/quote]

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