Woman on Lorraine Kelly this morning who had home birth with her first baby.

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Did you see her with her baby girl and husband. I just wanted to slap her smug face. "Oh I just did all the right research and everything was fine" then the doctor contradicted her of course but she just sits there looking so bloody pleased with herself.

Got nothing against homebirths of course but the woman wouldn't acknowledge that she was LUCKY to have an easy birth and it wasn't because she was so bloody clever.

Anyone else see this? I've forgotten her name, probably just as well.

Oh yes I saw this too and she just 'instinctively' knew there were no problems. Great way to make any mother who did have problems but didn't instinctively feel it, feel like shit! She was very, very smug.

I saw it and it was a freebirth not just homebirth. She had no scans, no checks in pregnancy and gave birth totally alone.

pfb

I thought she was a fucking nutter

She said she was trained in resus

Erm, if she's have keeled over, how would she resucitate herself

how cool for her, though, really - although a shame that she takes such credit for it. personally i was deeeelighted to be under the care of a doctor.

Even if you do all the right preperation, go to all the courses, read all the books, you can still be unlucky and end up with a traumatic birth. I wish I'd seen the program.

How did the doctor contradict her?

surely just lucky the kid want born wiht a health prob

I CANT STAND lorraine kelly - money for old rope therefore cant watch - sorry rant over

It annoys me when people don't realise that so much of an easy birth is all down to pure good luck. Yes a good healthy positive and calm attitude can assist, it's helpful if you are calm but of course it's down to luck. Silly bint!

It's the only time I have ever agreedf with Dr Samrmpants Hillary knobhead

Would she have performed a C section on herself should the need have arisen? With a butter knifer perhaps?

Lol - yes he can be Doctor Knowall as well. Don't really like LK - I tend to flick between BB1 and ITV in the mornings.... but anything better than Cbeebies

Anyway contradiction - that medical assistance saves thousands of lives and no-one can know what your birth will turn out like, particularly with a first birth. He did say giving birth is overmedicalised but seemed to imply that this woman was being irresponsible doing it all herself.

Had 3 births myself all of which are completely different from almost natural ranging to full medical intervention. Nothing different about me with regard to prepartion etc and all the pregnancies were pretty much the same too.

one of the biggest factors in the recent increase in PND is the guilt that women feel about having problematic deliveries. yes childbirth is natural, yes women have been doing it for centuries but 30y ago an awful lot of the women on mn would have died in labour. its not easy and she is very lucky. nothing to do with research/preparation!

Is that the same woman who was in Woman magazine a few weeks back, who gave birth totally on her own? What a muppet.

Homebirths are fine IMO as long as you have a qualified midwife or similar with you. Why would you want to put you and your baby's life at risk by doing it totally on your own?

It's like it's being turned into a competition isn't it, who can have the most 'natural' 'perfect' birth.

I agree, it's probably more about wanting her back slapped and told how marvellous she is. Why else all the 'self pr' on it?

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exactly belgo. did she not realise the danger she put both of them in?

i hate the phrase too posh to push! got it all the fecking time

megglevache - it's awful that someone can say that to you.

I had a homebirth with my second, and rather then feeling smug or pleased with myself, I actually felt guilty. I chose a homebirth because it was the best option for me, and I feel that was selfish. It was a difficult birth, and could so easily have gone pear shaped. I don't know how I would have lived with myself if something had gone wrong.

She was alone? I was under the impression you had to call a midwife/ Dr by law. Anyone know?

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I don't think you do. A woman on another board I used to post on gave birth alone and didnt call a midwife for days afterward and they came and weighed the baby etc.

Dr hilary also said that at the turn of the century loads of woman and babies died during labour and that anything could happen including pph and she could have lost litres of blood before having time to get anywhere.

The woman on the tv said her husband was in the other room but she was more relaxed on her own.

you don't have to call mw/dr but it's illegal for anyone untrained to "act as" mw e.g if anyone with you at the time (dp, dh, friend) could be prosecuted.

I've had three very different births. One ventouse dilivery with epidural, one very fast induction, and one home birth. I think there are two factors involved in how easy/ diffiuclt a birth is.

1. How relaxed and confident you are.
2. Luck.

Each to his own when giving birth, but doing so without an someone trained and experienced is silly, if not dangerous, IMO.