Home birth - anyone have experience of one?

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98elise said:

Good advice.

My wife wanted a home birth, I wanted it to be in hospital. Eventualy my wife agreed with me.

When the big day came, the fetal heart monitor showed that our baby was bradicardic (the heart rate was getting slower and slower with each contraction). Within a few minutes my wife was in theater having an emergency C section. Our baby was fine, but if it had been a home birth it might not have gone so well.

Very similar experience I had, I was in labour 3 days before I ended up with an emerg section due to the heart rate dipping. I never wanted a home birth but I did want a natural birth and never thought for one second things would go wrong.