Our members are very supported in group to make their own choices, with our Home Birth Transfer Is NOT A Failure ethos, all our births are celebrated.
Sadly, this support for informed choice is not, in the main supported by their care providers, as their following words show.
These snapshot figures from a quick poll in my Home Birth Support Group, should make over arching maternity services hang their heads in shame.
Since coronavirus impacted, I am spending upwards of 60 hours a week in groups, supporting women, against a backdrop of increasing coercion.
Guest blog of this beautiful birth story, from our Home Birth Support Group UK, by Kirsty Smart. 🤱🤱🤱 Birth Story 🤱🤱🤱 Baby boy, 7lb7.5oz, 12.30pm Friday 24th April, 40+1, 3rd baby. Hello! My waters started to go at 6.20am after a couple of very little niggles that had woken me. Read more…
I have set up a donation based Freebirth and Emergency Childbirth Support Group UK. I set it up in response to the number of freebirth queries I have had, it also supports women who want to know what to do if they birth their babies at home, a birth before Read more…
The potential for a bleed or haemorrhage is something we are asked about a lot in our Home Birth Support Group UK. When this birth story, which took place at home and was followed by a significant bleed and transfer in hospital, was posted I asked if I could share Read more…
The decision to move from home birth to positive induction at Peterborough City Hospital meant that Sophie and her partner were able to share a magical waterbirth together.
The decision to move from home birth to positive induction at Peterborough City Hospital meant that Sophie and her partner were able to share a magical waterbirth together.
The decision to move from home birth to positive induction at Peterborough City Hospital meant that Sophie and her partner were able to share a magical waterbirth together.
This was supposed to be a light hearted look at the reasons women are given not to homebirth – instead it paints a very sad, emotive, coercive picture in the words of the women these things were said to.
If you need intervention at home, that necessitates transfer, you can be sure you would have needed that intervention if you had been in hospital for the whole birth.