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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is anecdotal but a friend of mine nearly died along with her baby, giving birth to her first at home. She is incredibly fit and healthy, no family history of complications, had a great smooth pregnancy during which she ran and did yoga every day.

She had to be rushed to the hospital for an emergency C-section. The baby was stuck behind a bone in her pelvis and never would have made it out without intervention. [/quote]
+1 This happened to my friend, too. She was a FTM and they had to rush her in an ambulance for an emergency c-section when the baby got stuck and the heart rate dropped dangerously low. It was so traumatizing to her and her DH that she didn’t even want to talk about it for a long time. This isn’t a powerful-mama-game to play, and I find it incredibly irresponsible that posters here are encouraging a FTM to have a home birth given the statistics and stakes (human life!). I asked my OBGYN about my options for doing a home birth (I am young, healthy, already had a healthy live birth) and she told me this: most home births go perfectly, but the ones that go wrong, go very, very wrong. :([/quote]

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