Home birth for me!

Hello Everyone

I am so chuffed! Thanks Anne for your advice recently. It seems my hospital
has changed it's policy and I can now have my antibiotics given at home,
rathr than in hospital. They can also do it intra-muscular rather than in a
vein, which is great cos it took them forever to get it in before. So all
this means that I can have the home birth I had been thinking about. I spoke
to my new midwife and she was chuffed that I am having a hb and is really
supportive and informative. So that makes me feel much better about it all.
Df was happy to go with it once I'd chucked a few statistics at him. So
it's all go!! I'm pretty sure if I hadn't been reading all the good stuff on
here about hb's I might not even have considered it - so thanks everyone and
wish us luck! Oh, and the 12 wk scan was all fine and dandy too.

Cheers

Jeni

"Jeni Steers" wrote:

Hello Everyone

I am so chuffed! Thanks Anne for your advice recently. It seems my
hospital has changed it's policy and I can now have my antibiotics given
at home, rathr than in hospital. They can also do it intra-muscular rather
than in a vein, which is great cos it took them forever to get it in
before. So all this means that I can have the home birth I had been
thinking about. I spoke to my new midwife and she was chuffed that I am
having a hb and is really supportive and informative. So that makes me
feel much better about it all. Df was happy to go with it once I'd chucked
a few statistics at him. So it's all go!! I'm pretty sure if I hadn't
been reading all the good stuff on here about hb's I might not even have
considered it - so thanks everyone and wish us luck! Oh, and the 12 wk
scan was all fine and dandy too.

Cheers

Jeni

Yay! Good luck.


--
Rebecca Jo
Mama to Alexander 6/6/05 & Jack 7/7/07

Jeni Steers schrieb:
Hello Everyone

I am so chuffed! Thanks Anne for your advice recently. It seems my hospital
has changed it's policy and I can now have my antibiotics given at home,
rathr than in hospital.

YAY for you!

cu
nicole

great news!

did you ask last time? or was it just not mentioned? I know a friend who
had a baby May 2004 who did eventually decide on a hospital birth, but
needing antibiotics wasn't a problem then when she was thinking of a
homebirth.

Cheers
Anne

"Anne Rogers" wrote in message
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great news!

did you ask last time? or was it just not mentioned? I know a friend who
had a baby May 2004 who did eventually decide on a hospital birth, but
needing antibiotics wasn't a problem then when she was thinking of a
homebirth.

Cheers
Anne

I was told that it would have to be in hospital last time, not that I was
planning a hb that time anyway.

Jeni

On Jul 18, 4:39 am, "Jeni Steers" wrote:
Hello Everyone

I am so chuffed! Thanks Anne for your advice recently. It seems my hospital
has changed it's policy and I can now have my antibiotics given at home,
rathr than in hospital. They can also do it intra-muscular rather than in a
vein, which is great cos it took them forever to get it in before. So all
this means that I can have the home birth I had been thinking about. I spoke
to my new midwife and she was chuffed that I am having a hb and is really
supportive and informative. So that makes me feel much better about it all.
Df was happy to go with it once I'd chucked a few statistics at him. So
it's all go!! I'm pretty sure if I hadn't been reading all the good stuff on
here about hb's I might not even have considered it - so thanks everyone and
wish us luck! Oh, and the 12 wk scan was all fine and dandy too.

Cheers

Jeni


Congrats! That's fabulous. :-)

Sharalyn
mom to Alexander James

I was told that it would have to be in hospital last time, not that I was
planning a hb that time anyway.

You have to remember that there are so many midwives at the Rosie, that
not everyone is going to know the policy for everything single thing,
there are some community midwives who have very very few clients having
a homebirth and others who have very high rates, there's one who serves
some of the southern villages who has about 12% homebirths and
breastfeeding rates at 1 month in the high 90s. As far as I know there
hasn't been a policy change one way or the other, but that's not really
an issue, when it comes to the crunch if a women demands a homebirth,
they pretty much have to provides staff for it (look at homebirth.org.uk
for more info), though they can then not provide treatment, so they
could say well, if you choose to be at home, you're also choosing not to
have antibiotics, problem is, if anything then did happen the likely
outcome in any kind of inquiry would be that they should have provided
antibiotics at home, so they will give them. Thankfully in this area
there is a bit of a precedent for this and several women have had
antibiotics at home, whereas in other areas a lot of women fighting for
that opportunity are the first one.

Cheers
Anne