Homebirth for first baby

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I am a first time mum and looking into home birth . Up until pregnancy, I hadn’t considered home birth at all, however, losing my Dad quite recently and trauma associated with hospitals (in particular heart rate monitoring device’s sounds) has made me want to avoid hospitals through fear that the stress would stall my labour and lead to a cascade of interventions.
With that said, i’m conscious there is a slight increase in risks for home births with first timers.

I’m curious to hear your experiences with home birth, particularly if there were complications. How was this dealt with? Did you feel safe? What were the outcomes?

I’d most like to hear from 1st time mums where the risk is slightly elevated.

Thank you xx

Thank you to those who have acknowledged the trauma here

Thank you, I appreciate your compassion/emotional intelligence x

fupa the data says you are wrong about admission being harmful for mums giving birth and their babies compared to a home birth. And it’s not true everyone will have been regularly scanned and pushed to induce from 41 weeks. I wasn’t. I was induced at 41+5 after calling daily and never hearing back, at a big London hospital with a great reputation. I was never given their information pamphlets on induction which I should have been at my 41 week appt, nor did anyone explain to me how it works. I was just at home miserable and well overdue and so pregnant I could see heads turn from the other side of the street as I walked past, completely in the dark about what was supposed to happen.