I've been asked this several times during each pregnancy. And it still catches me off guard. I've never even considered having a baby in a hospital. It's weird because in my own private little world, in my mind, birth is normal and natural. Not a medical event. The hospital is for illness and injury - not a place to have babies! My internal thoughts go something like this...
"Hospital? I'm not sick, I'm having a baby! Childbirth is normal and there is no need for a hospital. Why would I go there? I don't like hospitals. I don't want to be in a hospital bed with people I don't know wandering in and out, with needles and tubes and beeping monitors. There are germs (bad ones like MRSA) and sick people in hospitals. Ew. I want to be in my comfy home with people that I know and love. I don't want people I hardly know poking, prodding, bathing and touching my newborn, or telling me what I need to do or can't do with him. I want to snuggle in bed with him... not put him in a car and drive him there. And.... I'm having a baby. I'm not sick."
Now, I know I'm one of a very small number that thinks this way. I'm one of a very small number that chooses homebirth because I believe it's what is best for my babies as well as myself. I know hospital births are normal and expected.
So what I say out loud is usually something along the lines of..
"Oh we homebirth with a midwife. I know... we're kind of crazy..." (Not that I believe we are crazy - but I know to a majority of the population we appear that way. It kind of diffuses the conversation at that point and most people move on... unless they are truly interested, which in that case I'm happy to talk about it :)
So thankful to have the option of homebirth.
blessings,
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