home birth would you/have you

my wife did over a 1000 home births as a lay midwife. right now she is not doing any because she got her nurses liscense. When she is certified as a nurse midwife she would do it again. Through all that, check with NARM to find their registared midwives. These nurses have to have certain qualifications to be registared, so it might be a little less scary for you. I would suggest you go for it.

I'm thinking of having one for the next baby. I'm not pregnant, but the hospital experience with our son was so terrible I really don't want to go to back. They really meddle too much and the aftercare, that was just awful! I think that was the worst part, having some strangers take my baby away for testing, gettting asleep finally only to have some nurse come in and interupt me, and I think we all know about hospital food ;) I don't get why I had to stay there for a few days either, we were fine. My husband has actually brought up trying a waterbirth at home!

I have had 3 babies in hospital too, and as nice as a home birth might be, I think I would worry about something going wrong, and the midwife not having the right eqipment on hand or something :(

I have two children and I deliver them at the hospital. I guess I trust the hospital better, just in case something goes wrong and need a C-section. Plus I am sooo afraid of pain, I absolutely need epidural which only the hospital is able to give me that.