I know people who are really into the home birth thing. Of course, they had a midwife, and their OBGYN had monitored their pregnancy and was comfortable with them giving birth at home.
It seems to me that the question involves balancing how much better the home birth experience will be if everything goes well, versus the risk that something will go wrong where the transit time to the hospital will make a significant difference. Assuming that an OBGYN thinks everything looks peachy as you come up to the delivery date, I think that's an evaluation that can legitimately be made either way.
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Date: 2007-06-18 11:06 pm (UTC)It seems to me that the question involves balancing how much better the home birth experience will be if everything goes well, versus the risk that something will go wrong where the transit time to the hospital will make a significant difference. Assuming that an OBGYN thinks everything looks peachy as you come up to the delivery date, I think that's an evaluation that can legitimately be made either way.