My hospital has just announced it's suspended it's home birth service. I hate hospitals and was quite definitely and massively up for a home birth in 6 weeks time....
Prior to this, seeing how my hospital was struggling, I already enquired at another hospital nearby whether I might transfer to their home birth team, but they said no on postcode grounds, which I totally understand. But if a service is actually then suspended for sure is it unreasonable to suggest that the tiny amount of women who would like to give birth at home in that time frame be allowed to transfer to another home birth team?
If a hospital nearby had the capability, and the space to at least say that they would try and send someone to my house, shouldn't that be allowed, maybe by law? I feel pretty strongly that it is my right to give birth in my own home....