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I want to be but my husband DOES NOT. I just hope we move somewhere with a birth center...

I am not because I have no idea where I will be living when our baby is born but after we are settled somewhere I might consider it if we have another. Our youth pastors wife has delivered all 5 of their children at home! We are going to a midwifery though and it is basically a house and looks nothing like a hospital so I love it

The hospital won't do VBAC?? that seems strange

We'll decide between a birth center and a home birth when we get pregnant. Soon, hopefully!

I want to! Unfortunately this pregnancy I waited too long to find a midwife and now there are none in my entire CITY that are free for my due date.

On the upside, the hospitals here are a lot like birthing centres in the States from what I hear.

I will definitely be going for a homebirth next time!

I wanted to bump this thread!

We're pregnant with LO2, and are planning another homebirth with our CNM practice.

I'd love to start this thread again for a bit of support and place for us to share our feelings regarding our upcoming/past births.

@maddyz: Really different? I'd love to hear more.

My first birth was crazy - just very fast and I don't remember a lot of it. If there are any differences, I hope that it's a little less intense with more room for me to remember and be intentional. Agree about it being such a personal choice ... and even though we had a perfect home birth the first time, I wanted to be sure we were approaching this pregnancy with the same decision making (like, does it make sense this time, etc.). As long as I have a healthy pregnancy, we decided it'll be the right choice again.

@littlejoy I think I was pretty classic first baby vers second.

Lo1 water broke at 5am I can consistent but mild contractions all day. Pumped a little in the late afternoon to see if that got things going, it didn't really. Ate a little dinner and my midwife came to check on me. Said to take a bath and go to bed, in the bath I realized things were picking up. It was slow and steady from then on. Doula came around 10:30, I started pushing just after 2am when my midwife came. Lo was born at 5:30am in the kitcheb after about 3 hours of pushing. I had no idea it had been that long. He was 9 pounds and 22.5". I needed 3 stitches.

Lo2 I had to weeks of pre labor and false starts. It was maddening. I got home from work a little early to clean the kitcheb before lo1 got home but decided to rest on the sofa for a minute. 10 minutes later I was calling everyone because I was pretty sure it was real this time. Midwives and my husband arrived around 6, midwives went to dinner. I was chatting between contractions and Durning then at this point but the were frequent. By the time the midwives came back at 9 contractions were getting hard. The rest is a blur, lo was born at 10:15pm, we hardly had a chance to get my pants off. He was 7 pounds 5oz and 21". The first thing I said was how small he is!

The first was slow and steady the fast.

@Mrs. Monkey: There is seriously nothing like being in your own bed (even the breakfast the midwives made seemed like the best food ever, haha).

@maddyz: Those ARE two very different births. How cool! I had a very fast labor with LO1, I'm kind of scared how much faster it could be this time.

@Iced Tea: That totally makes sense. We work with CNM's because they have practicing privileges at our local hospital, so if I transfer, they can stay with me and manage my care. In an emergency, I imagine having them in a role like a doula would be helpful.

Heads-up: a doula isn't licensed to offer actual health advice. But it is important to find someone you love!