Freebirth - what are your concerns?

[Mamalicious]

my other thing is that im not sure if i wanna clean up the mess if i birth at home , not a fear or concern obviously, but something i think about lol.

Same here, I'll be in the bath! Pull the plug and whallah!!!

[Shanaynay]

Same here, I'll be in the bath! Pull the plug and whallah!!!

Might get heaps of gunk stuck in the pulghole and you'll have to poke it down with a fork

[PunkyDiva]

Our bathroom looked like a slaughterhouse (cause cord was broken without clamping and I got out of bath then walked through house with cord trailing beneath me leaving a lubbly blood trail) and my sister(in another state) organised cleaners to come in whilst we were in hospital. Unfortuneately they didn't keep the bits of membrane I had neatly laid on the side of the bath to dry and put in baby box. Most of blood was in bath though and poo in the strainer (5yo DD still has a fascination with talking about pooing as you birth)so it was a case of just pulling the plug and flushing the loo really. What a waste of all that precious blood though.

[Mum2Bella]

I have another concern, it's really actually quite petty probably and it mightn't stop me from a birth at home but I'm worried that i'd be in the shower for hours and hours and the hot water runs out mid sensation and it'd be ....well... pretty bloo6y disruptive iYKWIM.

OMG this was my concern out hot water had been playing up n my DF had to fill the bath up with the kettle n saucepans at least 2 weeks prior to my birth.

it was amazing the morning i went into labour i had a bath full of hotwater

[Mum2Bella]

I am concerned of tearing.
I am concerned with making a mess.
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i was cut with my 1st bub that was born in the hospital,i wasnt impressed as they didnt follow my birthing plan

my 2nd i had at home i just got at the bath had a few pushes n he was out,it made a bloody mess we had to throw the mattress out

my 2nd was born in the car,but i had put a shower curtain down so no mess in the car

my 4th was born in our bath at home so all the mess just washed down the plug hole,except for the chunky bits that had to scooped out of the bath

[HowCrazyCool]

Hey I know this is an old thread. I've been looking into home birth but ave more gravitated towards freebirth.
One of my concerns is breast feeding? Would I hire some one to give me some pointers? Would I ask a family member/friend ?

[mrsdj1234]

Hey I know this is an old thread. I've been looking into home birth but ave more gravitated towards freebirth.
One of my concerns is breast feeding? Would I hire some one to give me some pointers? Would I ask a family member/friend ?

You could see about attending a ABA (breast-feeding ***.) class, if you are concerned, but in reality it mostly comes naturally. It can be a bit trial and error at first, but even being shown what to do doesn't guarantee that it'll be easy. My first was born in hospital, with lactation consultants coming to show me how to feed, and we still had trouble for the first few weeks.

[kymmy]

My fears were never realised looking back on what I wrote. Two freebirths without tearing and mess was dealt with by my husband.
Breastfeeding - I found my best support came from friends who breastfed with my first baby. I didn't feel I had the same support with my last babies but I think it helped me initially so maybe that was just about normalising it for me.

[mummaofspecialneedsx]

im scared about alot of things but this thread has made me calmer an answered alot of questions for me

[champagne]

I'd prefer a midwife attended homebirth, but due to the current climate that makes midwives fearful of going against the ACM's stance on anything other than 'low risk' at home, i worry that i won't be able to find a midwife to attend an HBAC. I'm not decided whether i'd rather labour at home as long as possible and head into hospital, or to freebirth.

My fear is the same as Lillynix (from her post back in 2007), that i could be one of the 1 in 200 who experience uterine rupture. I know what to look out for (firstly sudden drop in blood pressure and increase in heart rate for mum, and later a decel in baby's heart rate that doesn't recover after a contraction) which does make me a little calmer. I'm worried that if we were very unlucky and it happened, we wouldn't make it to the hospital on time. I worry that i would feel responsible for killing my child, even though the same thing could happen in a hospital and still not make it to theatre in time.

Lillynix, if you don't mind sharing, how did you work through the fear?