Ladies who had a homebirth

[agalch]

This may sound daft but have a couple of questions about homebirth.

1.If you have a homebirth is the mw allowed to break your waters?
2.Who brings the entinox?A friend told me the fire brigade brought hers as it has to be seen to be stored safely.
3.Would you have 1 mw most of the time then a 2nd later on?
4.Do you have the injection to help deliver the placenta or is it left to come naturally?

TIA for any replies

hi agalch, had my first in hospital with morphine and gas and air. Number 2 at home with gas. Number 3 at home with pool and gas. Had morphine given to me to store in the fridge a couple of weeks before due date with both home births with dd2 the midwife bought everything with her including gas and only called the second midwife when i was near pushing. For dd3 different area they gave me a maaive box of labour stuff about 2 weeks before the due date including oxegen and two gas and air cylinders. First midwife arrived and i was 7 to 8 cm so she called second midwife to come straight away. Oh and had the injection to for the placenta. The best pain relief i found was the pool, i suppose the only pain relief that isn't an option is an epidural, but thats not always available in hospital anyway.

hi

Yes I had a hospital birth with DD1 she arrived in 4 hours so only had gas and air.

GP had to prescribe the morphine, took prescription to one chemist they didn't have it so had to go to Boots who had to order it in especially, but it was a different kind and MW wasn't happy so had to get another prescription and go to another chemist.

So I could have had everything I could have had in hospital minus the epidural.

Homebirth was by far the better birth, a good tip is buy some cheap shower curtains ( I bought Asdas 3 at 99p each) cheaper than waterproof sheets for the bed DP put them on then a cheap fitted sheet over the top to make it comfy, we used a few old towels and a few new ones MWs ran out of mopping up stuff but TBH they went in the wash that day and were fine.

hi - i had a home birth with ds2. Was chucked out of hospital about midnight as they said nothing was happening. Tried to have a bath about 5am but was in such agony by this point I couldnt sit down. Got out the bath - looked down and ds2 was peeping back at me! Dh called the midwife & ambulance but too late! Had to get taken into hospital tho as had a retained placenta, had this before with dd2. And had to buy a new bathroom carpet!

1. Mine broke early on so don't know - don't see why they couldn't though.
2. Midwives brought the entonox
3. I had 2 midwives for most of the labour - one initially and then the 2nd arrived when I got into the birthing pool.
4. Tried to deliver the placenta naturally but it hadn't arrived after 45mins so I asked for the injection. Wished I'd asked for it straight away as I then had a post-partum haemorrage and had to go to hospital overnight for observation.

Apart from the pph, whole experience was fab and would thoroughly recommend it.

Hi sorry cant answer on 1,2,or3 but had an un planned homebirth on my bathroom floor delivered by dp!Delivered the placenta naturally but it was more painful than the managed delivery i had with dd1.