Today I had an unplanned, unattended homebirth!

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Dh delivered our son (ds2) this morning, the paramedic arrived 30secs after he was born! We were supposed to be having a hospital birth but it all went a bit quicker than expected

What a wonderful story

Congratulations OP. xx

wouldbe - the midwife suggested it to us, she just had to write a letter to accompany the claim saying that a home birth hadn't been planned! the best bit was talking to the person on the phone who wanted to know if we'd kept the duvet, towels etc that had been trashed, hmmm let me think No, they went straight in the dustbin. They still paid up though.

Wow, totally amazing and lovely and wonderful. You are a complete warrior to be blow drying your hair approx one hour before you gave birth! Enjoy your first few days with you gorgeous new baby.

Thanks Katz, I can't remember how much our excess is, I'll have a look into that.

that is a wonderful story

love you blew dry your hair first

congratulations on your newborn

Congratulations!

Congratulations! enjoy your new baby.

Amazing story thanks for sharing

My DH spent 3 days after ur unplanned homebirth cleaning the carpet.

Congratulations!!

Wonderful story, congratulations and well done!

Yay congratulations :-)

Congratulations OP!

Congratulations Anagram I had an unplanned unassisted homebirth for my first DC and a planned homebirth that was unassisted for my second DC. I just seem to labour too quickly for medical help to arrive DC3 arrived after 4 contractions each with a 10 minute gap between.

I have to admit I was a bit peeved with the focus on DH in the congratulations cards "MrSneaky should retrain as a midwife" "How brave of MrSneaky" "MrSneaky bravely at the action end" etc. Nope MrSneaky was in the hall on the phone to the ambulance.

Next time you may want to consider a planned homebirth and pop yourself in the bath, much less clean up

Amazing story, massive congrats to you x

I cried when I read your story, beautiful experience, albeit nerve wracking!! Take care and enjoy your new addition.

Wonderful.

Lovely story - has me weeping on the train!

congratulations!

Congratulations lovely story.

Congratulations lovely story.

Hi there, a big congrats to you both. This is very similar to my birth story in dec 2012 where every thing was nicely planned for a hospital induction at 41 weeks and baby decided otherwise. It is a very shocking experience but also a very special one instead. It is true when they say 'there's no place like home'. All the best x

Wow, many many congratulations! Awesome story, thanks for sharing

LOVE LOVE LOVE this story. Well done to you, you all sound amazing, x

Great story! My Dh got congratulations from men and women equally. He got more than me as I recall.

It will be a wonderful story to tell your DS when he gets older.

Wow! well done to you and DH.

What a great story. You sound very laid back about it all.

Congratulations!

Bloody marvellous! Well done both of you, but especially you ... xx