When I tell people I'm having a home birth, 90% of the time their response is "you're so brave!" Now, I've come to realize they generally mean one or both of 2 things-- #1: "I can't believe you're not going to take the drugs!", and #2: "I can't believe you're going to risk your life and the life of your baby like that!"
Of course I have my reasons for choosing a home birth--I'd love to share them with anybody who's interested. However, for those of you questioning my sanity and/or concerned about our safety (which I do appreciate), please rest assured that we did plenty of research into the safety of home birth, as well as plenty of praying, before making our decision. Study after study has shown that home births are just as safe as (and in some cases, even safer than) hospital births for low-risk pregnancies.
My mom had all 6 of her children at home, so a home birth wasn't ever a strange concept for me, but it was a pretty foreign idea to Jarett at first. Once I told him I wanted to think about having our baby at home, he spent the next few days researching all he could about safety concerns. He also met with the midwife I was planning on using and drilled her on all of the "what if's" he could think of, and how she would handle them. I won't go into detail about what he learned, but in the end I guess you could call him converted. :)
Statistically speaking, there is still a 5% chance I'll end up having to go to the hospital for one reason or another, so I'm not ruling out the possibility. But I'm very much looking forward to (hopefully) welcoming our new little one into the world in the comfort of our own home.
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I love all these updates. Thanks!
YAYAY for home births! Go Jenna(and Jett, of course)! That is AWESOME!!! You are going to be amazing!
P.S. I want to hear EVERY detail. Natural birth is the best!
How exciting! You do not look like you're about to have a baby.
I'm sooo happy to read the updates too!!! I'm so excited to hear all about your home birth as well. If you don't want to blog all the details, maybe you could send the Brookview girls an email. We will all be praying for the four of you!! I love how you and Jarrett really educate yourselves on everything. That's totally awesome Jenna!!
You look sooo beautiful!!
Wow, it's coming so close to your due date! Good luck. I think all moms who can go natural are the bravest people ever!
That's awesome that you're going to have a home birth. I think that will be a really amazing experience! I'm glad you guys are doing well!
That's awesome that you are going to have a home birth, and I got to give Jarett some serious credit for going through with this (you too Jenna). If Shayla told me she was going to have a home birth, I'd say, "Good Luck and call me when it's over!" I had a hard enough time cutting the umbilical cord when Max was born! I'm definitely not going to cut the next one's cord, and even though the mom and baby have an excellent chance of surviving a home birth, I don't think I would!
Will Castor oil be used this time around?
I'm excited for your little family and the new addition on it's way. Can't wait to hear of baby W's arrival.
Well Jenna---good luck! Hope they gave you plastic sheets in that kit :) I remember thinking it weird your mom had her kids at home, and I still think it's weird. Actually it just makes me laugh--thinking back on all the "natural" things you tried to convert me on (namely, couscous (which now we eat all the time) eating orange peels (yuk!) stalks of broccoli, & soy milk (b/c wild cows weren't milked) are just a few that come to mind. Oh the good times.! But I love you for it. Hope all goes well and can't wait to see a picture of the little cutie, unless you've already had him in which case you're a little behind! (But with 2 kids it's understandable).
Anyway, I'd love to see you this holiday, but with a newborn I won't want to be bringing new germs in the house, so I understand if you don't open your front door. Love ya!
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