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RE: "Respected birth, in hospital or at home?"
Gnubbel alert!!! So adorable...
I didn't give birth to any of my children in a clinic. But a home birth didn't seem to be the right option for me either; I was alone with the kids each time and their care had to be guaranteed. Besides, the dogs might run amok if they smelled a birth (or so I thought...) So my decision was a birth centre. Independent midwives who run a communal, rather cosy and comfortable and not at all clinical birthing centre. No doctor, no apparatus medicine.
Well. A few dozen years ago there were still a lot of these facilities; they were very popular with parents-to-be. In the meantime, more and more facilities have given up because the conditions, especially the insurance premiums, have become prohibitively expensive.
It is a real dilemma where to have our babies, I know some of my friends who had home birth and luckily everything was fine. There are on other side who from beginning on wanted C-section so that they do not have any pain but on other hand they suffer form other pain of operation and there is no guarantee that there is no complication.
Good network of midwives is important for save birth no matter if women would like to have their babies at home or in medical facilities.