Home birth on the NHS?

[rouge]

Was planning to use an indep midwife after terrible hospital experience last time round but am now thinking of seeing what the NHS has to offer before parting with my cash. I'm hoping that it will be sufficiently different from Day 1 that it won't remind me too much of last time. Thoughts / experiences much appreciated.

Yes. Best of luck. I've realised how lucky I am - the most 'warning' I ever got about a home birth was my GP, who said 'you'll only get entonox, you do know that' which I think was quite justified, really.

Well I had a hosp birth last time and didnt even get entonox - they couldn't find the tubing So I ended up with an very unwanted epidural that went badly wrong .... But that's another story!!

hi rouge

just wondering what you decided in the end?

Can I just say when I went for booking visit with second pg the mw was positively truing her best to talk me into a homebirth!!!! (I was not swayed though) As it turned out I had PROM so wouldn't have been allowed one anyway.