Anyone watching CH4 tonight, about freebirthing?

[flubdub]

Its on at nine.
Its about women that give birth at home, alone with no midwife, and no medical interventio.

[Evelynsmum]

I think its on five...

[gigglewitch]

ooooh. won't be able to resist now

[having had all three of mine in hospital it is a totally foreign idea to me]

[PussinJimmyChoos]

Am watching it too....have heard that the more intervention you have the more likely to have to have a c section so will be interesting to see how they go with nowt....risky though?

[gigglewitch]

is it "extraordinary people" on ch5 21:00?

[flubdub]

Oh yes, appologies ch5.
Did anyone see the woman on 'This Morning' today who did it?

[Piffle]

I'm watching for sure I heard it was a thoughtful and well balanced documentary so we'll see...

[TheBlonde]

I'm recording it

[lulumama]

am sky plussing it

have strong opinions on free birthing, but am very interested , particularly in what motivates women to freebirth, especially if they have no antenatal care at all....

[flubdub]

So she wont even have a partner there. She'll be ALONE!!
wtf? makes me a bit mad tbh.

[expatinscotland]

i'd feel terrified at this.

i'd love to give birth in our local hospital, because you ge to have 2 midwives with you at all times.

if there is an emergency, you will be choppered to the consultant-led hospital in 8 minutes.

i waited longer for a consultant to get to me when i ran into trouble during labour at a large city hospital.

[poshtottie]

she did have all the ante natal care though, scans etc. My sister had two homebirths but had a mw present.

[scrappydappydoo]

Struggling to understand - whats wrong with a midwife attended homebirth?? Hope will be explained...

[lou031205]

TBH this is selfishness. The baby just wants to get out of there. Putting your baby at risk is not a good move.

[Piffle]

having had a dd with a heart problem diagnosed immediately after birth I'd not take this route, homebirth yes, I've had 3 kids and had terrific midwives. Luckily

[Evelynsmum]

We tried for a homebirth with DD but ended up transferring to hospital. I was very pleased to have an experienced midwife present.

I don't think freebirthing would be for me.

[expatinscotland]

oh god!

i used to live in boulder.

[expatinscotland]

I can sort of see where Americans are coming from in this.

The way they give birth there I find particularly awful.

I'm so glad I was spared this.

[expatinscotland]

Starlight, she's talking about US births.

LOTS of monitoring, internals, stirrups, medications, flat on your back, doctor-run.

[MissingMyHeels]

What an odd face that lady has.

I think they're very brave

[Evelynsmum]

In the US I think I can understand this more...even more medicalised over there and hard to find support for a homebirth. Still sounds very high risk...

[flubdub]

expat, are you from america? have wondered for a while.