How about Home Births, Midwives & Hospitals?

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  1. Fitz

    Fitz Legendary Woodsman

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    Why not add another debate?

    Would you, did you consider a home birth or delivery outside of a hospital?
     
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    I'll try my damndest to get my future wife to the hospital for delivery. So much can go wrong without professionals there.
     
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    In the hospital, no question about it. Although it could have been otherwise since I delivered both our daughters about an hour and a half after my water broke. When I mention that to women who have spent 30+ hours in labor, they instantly hate me.
     
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    too many things can go wrong, I'd feel much safer in a hospital
     
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    I don't have any kids. But, I'm wondering how someone could live with them self if something was to go wrong with a home birth? Especially if it were due to a complication which is regularly handled with little issue in a hospital setting? The umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck during delivery which the doctor handled without a problem. I wonder what that result might have been during a home birth?
     
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    I tried to talk my wife into biting a stick in the bathtub while I performed the delivery..... She wouldn't do it...

    Still don't understand why



    How is momma and baby doin?
     
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    This. Nothing more to add.
     
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    Sure, think of all the money you'd save, even with good insurance that is an EASY extra out of state hunting trip!!! ;)
     
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    This is actually a fairly common occurrence, and apparently easy to remedy. I guess it's rare to have any complications with it even when left alone.
     
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    I could add a few more if desired.

    No, I agree with Hook. I would want the safest place for mom and baby and that is the hospital.
     
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    My daughter's birth cost me $25...? Just the hospital bill...not all the other stuff that comes with having a kid :lol:
     
  13. Fitz

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    They are doing great!
     
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    Your ins must be better than mine lol although my wife had to have a c-section on all of our children. I got a nice bill...
     
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    My wife had a c-section...

    Had to stay in the hospital for 5 days. But you are right, we have excellent insurance.
     
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    Sheesh, now I feel like I REALLY got ripped lol
     
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    My girlfriend and I are expecting a girl in late June. Having babies is definitely a young woman's game. People have been having babies for a very long time, but since my gf is 38 we'll be having ours at a hospital.
     
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    we wanted all three of our boys to live so we used a real doctor...
     
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