I have 3 DCs.. aged 11, 7 and 5. Whenever I was in labour, I'd bleed a bit of fresh red blood. Each time proven to be nothing serious and baby was born vaginally, no interventions, healthy, etc. 1st DC born in hospital, the other 2 born at home in planned homebirths.
Just wondering if I have a 4th DC, would I be able to have a homebirth without the mw forcing me to go to the hospital to have the bleeding checked out before allowing me to homebirth? Each time in the past this happened, it involved a tedious 8 hour long wait, in labour (I never needed pain relief and anyway gas and air makes me sick, but sitting on a plastic chair in the waiting room for 8 hours in labour is a damn long time) at the overstaffed hospital to be seen by a doctor. To be told actually it's nothing serious and just a normal effect of my cervix dilating. I'm really dreading having to do a repeat of that...
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Bleeding during labour is normal?
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cloudywithachanceof · 03/08/2014 16:53
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