accidental homebirth

you planning an accident Emmi ... sorry I had many hours in hospital with my first 2 and an induction with my 3rd so not even close here...

Ty I left for the birth unit at 3:30 and he was out by 4:44 so if id stayed I think he would have been one,same with Mila

I got to the point where I wanted to go to Hospital and was wanting to push, I went to hospital and was told I couldn't push (as I wasn't properly dialated) once my cervix got itself sorted Catherine arrived a few hours later.

If you are planning a home birth then wouldn't going to hospital only be if there are complications?

Next time I want to birth at the Birthing Centre rather than hospital and would probably go earlier if I could.

A friend of minedid. It was her second baby and she'd had a week of false labour. By the time she realised it was time to push it was too late to go to hospital. They called an ambulance though and tbey arrived to supervise Dad catching the baby. They transferred to hospital afterwards as she had problems with the placenta. If she ever had another I think she would've planned a homebirth.

Homebirth rocks

A friend of mine had a planned home birth - BUT the midwife didnt make it in time, bubs was born before she could get there - she said something about 7mins and it was all over, lucky for them it was #5 so her DH kinda knew what had to happen

CrazyCass wrote: A friend of mine had a planned home birth - BUT the midwife didnt make it in time, bubs was born before she could get there - she said something about 7mins and it was all over, lucky for them it was #5 so her DH kinda knew what had to happen

This happened to a friend too, though it was her 3rd and her DH's 2nd

My mum got to the hospital with a few minutes to spare before I arrived. She honestly had no idea she was in labour at all so that was a concern for me but never happened. She reproduced dinner around midnight and at about 4am my father noticed she wasn't herself (and having had 4 kids previously to another woman bundled her into the car) and I arrived at 4.30am almost in the hospital door way haha!

We want a homebirth next time but like Kali said about own home etc although I wonder if I could persuade MIL or my mum to let me do it at one of their homes haha! Doubt it!

One of the mums who was in my Jan 09 thread had an accidental home birth, we had another who had a car birth in the Victoria tunnel in Wgtn as well lol

Hey Emmi, I know a couple of people that's happened to, but they were both recently so don't know if they're planning anymore kids or not.
As you know, I had a planned homebirth, but I reckon even if we were planning to go to the hospital I would have ended up having him at home anyway seeing as my mum arrived to look after Chelsea just after I'd started pushing. She wouldn't have arrived any earlier had we been planning on going to the hospital lol

Had no intention of birthing at home with my son, in saying that I couldn't. The only birthing unit is around 45-50 minutes away. Lets just say my son entered the world extremely fast, went from having a crap to sudden contractions that were 2 minutes apart and lasting 20 seconds each. By the time my midwife actually listened to us that I was in fact in labour and mum managed to bundle me into the car we made it 5 minutes into our 45-50minute trip. Mum made the decision to turn around and take me to the local clinic. He was delivered by my mum and a nurse in the local clinic/old folks home within 5 mins of arriving. Because I laboured so quickly I think if I ever have another baby that I will just opt for home birth (plus the car ride when in labour is terrible!!!!)