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Year of baby's birth
2019
Satisfaction with care from midwives:
Satisfaction with care from obstetricians:
Satisfaction with care from GP:
Satisfaction with quality of processes/facilities:
Satisfaction with birth experience overall:
Model of care
Private midwife
Why did you choose this model of care?
to birth at home. reduce intervention potential and hopefully support a natural labour and delivery.
What were your choices for this birth?
Water immersion for labour and birth, Support for normal vaginal birth, Homebirth with a registered private midwife, Unmedicalised birth process, Birth support team of my choice (no visitor restrictions)
How did your birth start?
Spontaneous labour (started naturally)
What were your outcomes?
Attended by my known midwife/doctor, Birth support team of my choice, Water immersion for labour, Water immersion for birth, Instinctive pushing (ie not coached), Grazing/1st-2nd degree tear, Vaginal birth, Physiological 3rd stage (natural placenta birth without syntocinon)
Did you feel you could say No to care/treatments offered (or change your mind about your choices) at any time?
Yes
Details of experience
My homebirth was everything I could have asked for. I am a doula, so I went into birth knowing well the chances of labour going any way on the day and I was open to transferring to hospital for support if needed, I had already booked in at my local hospital and had a bag packed etc. My birth plan was to treat labour as an ordinary bodily function, to create an environment conducive to feeling safe and unhindered, and to go with the process as it unfolded. I had a 7 hour, uncomplicated, transformative experience of birth and am very happy with the hands off care I received from local homebirth midwife. I am pregnant again now and hoping for a similar birth in the Tweed Coast now- let’s see how we go!