Home Birth

Childbirth is a delicate and intimate moment; oxytocin – the love hormone – plays a fundamental role, but it is a shy hormone, which needs darkness and intimacy, it is a hormone that must be protected.
What better way to protect it than giving birth in your own home?

Giving birth at home can be a more relaxing and unique experience in a very familiar and warm environment.

Birth at home often allows you to have a midwife who you already know, whom you can trust, with whom you have already established a relationship and with whom you have also faced the path of pregnancy.
Furthermore, this mode allows you to always have your partner next to you, who will not necessarily have to go away at some point. Another positive aspect is that of being able to have the other children alongside (if there are any) and not having to entrust them to anyone during childbirth; however, it is important to organize yourself in the event of having to be transferred to the hospital. When you give birth at home, you are less likely to have an instrumental birth. There is also a better chance of having a vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC).

If you have the desire to give birth at home, there are a few things to consider:

Choose the birth partner (s)
Choose a possible second midwife
Having someone to take care of the other children in the house
Always prepare the bag for the hospital if the transfer will be necessary.

A major concern regarding childbirth is the pain and fear of not being able to manage it at home without help.

During a home birth, you can:

use breathing techniques or hypnobirthing,
use TENS (transcutaneouselectronic nerve stimulator)
use the water, and therefore the pool
use a hot bath where you don’t want to buy/rent the pool
use gas & air that may be offered by the midwife.

Obviously, it will not be possible to use the epidural, which, being an anesthetic, must be administered in the hospital.

There are parameters for giving birth at home and it is therefore important to make this wish known to the doctor and midwife; however, if it is a low-risk pregnancy and not a first child, it is very likely that this wonderful wish can be granted without problems.

Doula Alessandra – Deeply Mum