Unassisted Accidental Homebirth... Lets share amazing labour/birth videos we've seen.

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Awesome!!!

Thought it might be nice to share videos of inspiring/amazing births we've been watching (come on we're all doing it!).

Good ones!!

This isn't me obviously

She will be 3 in May. Im also glad that it turned out ok in the end. Despite the fact that we had no towels left in the house cos he used them all on her, me and the bedroom floor lol.

that vid was lovely thedevil amazing too! and yes the dads reaction -suprising in a way but oh so beautiful

I do laugh at the birth announcement. HER NAME a.k.a speedy. Your Best Catch Ever Daddy xx

God that video's beautiful TDWP, made me cry! The dad's reaction is really moving.

this is fab too!

Every birthing suite should have a pool, really!

Same here CharCharGabor, as soon as that dad started making that noise, I welled up.

aaah lovely c section

I love this couple - they are hilarious

I am not planning an unassisted birth. But I am planning on staying at home until what I judge to be the last minute.

Would much rather risk a home/taxi birth than be tied to a hospital for an extended period.

This worked well with DS (we were there for an hour before he arrived) so I see no reason to change things this time round.

thats a classic water birth. that midwife was lovely..if I had had a midwife like her I would have had no problems..her voice was calm and not patronising.

the devil - now I know why they give you that name lol...I had to stop watching that one. In my opinion, its 1.scary and 2. it just looks so unnatural - and no way do i want to offend anyone who had a cs...my mum did, my aunty did...to me tho it just scares the hell out of me. but that baby was well attentive.

and how did we get from unnassisted birth to c-section lol...

That poor woman had had, I think 4 lots of ivf, then three failed inductions so I think a c section was inevitable. Not 'natural' no, but produces the same results!

I do wish they would do skin to skin more with c sections though.

Well you can plan an amazing waterbirth etc but thats just it 'planned'. Doesn't always go the same way. plus c sections are not leapt into. It can happen to anyone and if it saves the baby/ mothers life then it is just as amazing.

I am lucky to have had two straightforward birth - 1st in Hospital which was the most hideous experience of my life thanks to an idiot midwife, and 2nd an amazing homebirth with doula. I do however have friends whose babies wouldn't have made it without a c section. And one still has 'issues' at the attitude some people take to c sections, she feels like she didn't do it properly.

My scary and unnatural section saved both my ds and mine life. I was TERRIFIED. I wish i'd watched a few section videos before but I honestly thought it'd never happen to me. I've got childbearing hips and my Mum gave birth to 3 babies in 4 hours each

if its a life saving procedure then so be it...my mum was 31 weeks and went into spontaneous labour with my sis and she had to be delivered by cs - saved her life. my aunt on the other hand smoked, drinked, did drugs - wanted an epidural and she wonders why she ended up with a cs. If it saves a life then its amazing, if its planned cause mom wants to avoid 'pain' i think its selfish. im sorry but that is just MY opinion and I dont want people to think im being nasty...I am training to be a midwife and promote natural labour/birth as much as possible. When Im qualified and if Im still in UK working I will do my best to teach mums and dads ways in which they can cope with pain, these days its all too easy to just say 'cut me open'.

If your training to be a midwife you need to think before you say things like "I am not a fan of c sections"

Is this your first term ?

None of the midwives who dealt with me would gave said anything so stupid.

Sorry for the hijak op

as a midwife , you have to be careful not to project your own experiences/wants/needs re childbirth onto other women

esp. if their ' i want a c.s' is actually covering a real case of tokophobia or a really bad traumatic birth

promoting natural childbirth is great, acceptin that all women have different desires, psyches, needs and expectations of birth is the challenging bit !

i had a c.s, it traumatised me, i had horrific PND. my friends have had them and found them to be perfectly lovely exeriences

have yet to hear a woman asking to be cut open to avoid pain

nono, your midwives wouldnt say it cause they have to go by hospital protocol and that means if mum shows no signs of progression and looks to be weak/baby in distress a cs has to be ordered within 30 minutes...but its just totally different from my point of view, been as I think that if mums were more equipped with the knowledge of what is going to happen to thier body, what will happen if they fight it, if they smoke, drink etc... etc...all the things that can lead to complications then we wouldnt have so many people wanting elective cs's which arent anywhere near as safe as a vaginal delivery. I think before I speak and the reason im training to be a midwife is cause I think there are alot of midwives out there that go too much by the protocol and not offer substansial, helpful, support to mums and dads out there. I am not going to be working in UK cause of this, I dont think I could stand having to go by hospital 'protocol' when a mum is just scared and tensing up so therfore seems like labor isnt progressing properly we'l opt for a cs...
Worzel...I wouldnt say it either to a mothers face cause I wouldnt need to. Midwives dont have to be fans of elective c-sections...im a fan of life saving interventions, not unessessary interventions.

pelnty of midwives in teh UK don't want to be bound by protocol. they want to stay with a woman for the duration of her labour, or at least a good portion of it, to be able to dim the lights, rub her back, offer the birth pool, not worry about rate of progression according to protocol

i don't think it is a questison of MWs not wanting to, but not being able to

wehre do you intend to practice midwifery?

my understanding is a c.s does not have to be ordered within 30 mintes if a mother is weak or baby is starting to show signs of distress
a type one c.s is supposed to be done withhin 30 minutes and it would be for more than if the mother was tired. a true crash c.s would be for v serious situation.

and Im not going to be opting to work in a hospital either. Im sorry if my post offended you but to clarify 'im not a fan of c-sections' = im not a fan of elective c-sections when done by a mother who 'doesnt want to push her baby out of her vagina cause it will hurt' trust me, I have heard it many of times.

Im moving top the US virgin Islands in a few years, and my mother who is has been and is aslo again studying to be a midwife, is going to set up a (hypno)birthing centre with me - where pain meds are not given out..gas and air is available and water is out main pain relief along with hypnotherapy.

the principal reasons for a cs are;

There is a danger to the unborn baby.
Failure to progress with the labour. (something that can either be on the mothers part/medical reason)
Breech (bottom or feet first) presentation.(which doesnt always require a cs, but on NHS, is practically standard procedure.
The mother has had a previous caesarean section. (and this too, also via preference as a VBAC can be looked into)

In the UK, on the NHS the death rate for a cs is three times higher than that of a vaginal birth and that includes crash cs's and also elective.

it's great you have that option

i think that pain medication has its place

for instance, pethidine can be great to help a woman to relax , to rest, to help her dilate at say 3 -5 cm , it is ahrd to get it balanced so not too close to delivery

i think that epidurals are a totally different ball game, but again if women are making informed choices to request one,then that is her choice

women need to be trusted to make their own choices

not to be told, try harder, you'l manage without, or that they don't need some storng pain relief

women can go into labout wanting only gas, or water or tens or nothing and wnat/need the whole gamut of pain relief

on the whole, i am glad the NHS offers this !

labour is one of those things, that you can rad about it, watch vidoes, support other women through, but until you've done it yourself, you don't really know how youll cope

i know what the reasonsa re for c.s

i think that there is a totally intertwined link between the rise in c.s and the rise in IOL

IOL done for women being post dates, but not ready , i am sure contributes highly to em. c.s

IOL for things that are probably ok to be left , but there is a rise in practicing defensive obstetrics

bringing c.s rates down is not just about not giving pain meds/epidurals, but a total rethink of the way obstetrics/midwifery care is dispensed in teh NHS

i don't see c.s rates coming down anytime soon sadly.