ANSWERS: 10
  • Whichever has the best numbing drugs!
  • Hospital by a landslide. You have access to a full medical staff and have professional ready to assist in a smooth birthing which should be rather effortless for the mother especially if she wants to take any sedatives and the like. At home, I would not go that route.
  • "Best place" depends on the mothers level of comfort, how much she wants or expects from the birthing experience. The support she gets form her husband family and caregiver plays a part too.. I have done both...so given a healthy pregnancy and competant experienced midwife or birth assistant I must say a home birth is an awesome experience..For me it was the best place. If I was to have more kids I would want to give birth at home again... I completed trusted my mifwife and I lived abut 15 min from a hospital..
  • If my wife had given birth to our first daughter in our home, they both would be dead right now. Hospitals, always and forever.
  • Currently planning a home birth. I want it this way because there is less intervention and more encouragment that you can have a baby naturally. Plus you are so much more relaxed at home leading to a very nice birth. If you read the stats there isn't a whole lot of reasons, besides the doctors wanting to go home and the like, that intervention is needed. Although you would want to be sure that a hospital is near because when a midwife says it's time to go to the hospital then something is or could be wrong. So I would say home birth if possible, but on the flip side I would want a hospital near just in case. My final answers, do your research it will help you feel better about your decision. And try to find a certified nurse midwife.
  • I'm having my baby in a birthing center. I don't feel as though I have adequate facilities in my home (i.e.: a big bathtub for laboring/birthing and the like) to have a comfortable labor, but honestly, every time I see a hospital birth it reminds me of the opening scene of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. Hospitals are so... cold and frightening. The system is set up to make you want drugs, to speed up the process as much as possible, and if your body refuses to go as fast as the doc wants, they slice you open like a gutted chicken. No, thank you.
  • Since my son was very premature and there were complications I was very grateful to be in a hospital.
  • Hospitals and doctors are meant to be prepared for things going wrong. Intervention is the nature of Doctors and hospitals, this is a wonderful thing when things do indeed go wrong, but without any intervention most women can give birth very well. I do not feel my home is a good place to birth a child (my bathtub isn't very big, is it not a quiet place where I feel I can relax in that situation) but if it was, I would birth at home, alternatively, I would give birth at a friends house ;) I think Women these days are being made to belive they are not able to birth a child without intervention, and IMO, that's pretty sad. Check out this trailer www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com
  • In the hospital there is a lot of care. At home there is a lot of privacy.
  • I'm sorry but I am a pain wuss.... IF I ever have children it will be in a hospital with LOTS of drugs......hmmm looking at my answer perhaps its best if I simply adopt or foster... less pain.. and the whole miracle of motherhood? Thats one thing I'm not sure I want to find out about, I just can't stand the idea of all that pain... maybe I'll change my mind but from my non pregnant standpoint.. I'd say hospital, epidural and whatever else will stop it from hurting! ( these are NOT childbearing hips LOL) ( if this is a double post sorry, I thought answerbag lost my answer lol)

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