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Last August I posted about costs of a homebirth, but it was still pretty early on in our pregnancy so I used estimates. Now that we’re ready to go any day now (baby, where are you?!), I thought I’d update the prices for those of you curious about paying for a homebirth with a midwife. Please keep in mind that costs will vary greatly. It can depend on your location – some Keep Reading Our cost of having a homebirth **Jennifer is a lovely woman I met online. She was reading my blog and saw my lists of things we still needed for our homebirth… she had some items leftover from her own homebirths and she very kindly and generously sent them to me. I appreciate it SO MUCH! I asked her if she’d type up a guest post about her homebirth so I could share it with all of you. Please say hi and show Jennifer some love! If Keep Reading Homebirth guest post We interviewed (and loved) a midwife last night for our upcoming VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) homebirth. When we chose an OB for our last pregnancy, we didn’t really interview anyone – just took one based on a referral from a friend because she had openings available. Huge mistake. I prepared a big list of questions for our midwife interview.. these were collected from ICAN, online forums, suggestions from twitter/facebook, and birth-y books (Birthing From Within, Thinking Woman’s Guide to Keep Reading Interviewing a homebirth midwife from bringbirthhome.com That’s right, read that header again. A panel of health experts from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) submitted a report* that calls for the UK’s National Health Service to provide more midwife-led units and for doctors to visit women so they can give birth outside of the hospital. Too many women give birth in the hospitals, British experts say. Less than 10% of women in the UK Keep Reading “Women should give birth at home” |
      
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