Hi All

yes, most of my family was born at home—–in old days—when drs made housecalls

marine found as i posted on other thread

I am 4th

Greta is on with Shep

I gave birth to my second son at home — 36 years ago ! Water broke at 6:30 am and he was out by 7:10 am What a way to go !

Greta, I didn’t listen to Dr Ashton…too old to worry or think about home births…lol…
My husband was born at home and so were his older siblings…..very common years ago….

the truth about
http://www.fliggo.com/video/bGi5Cn9i

Igave birth to my 3rd child at home but it was not by my choice. She just was determined to come into the world and I did not have time to go to hospital… My husband assisted in her delivery. Had I not had two previous pregnancies and sort of knew what was happening I think if would have been scared out of my wits!!

What is Furhman doing these days Greta? miss the comments.—–

HELLO ARUBA_____OBAMA MAY LIKE YOUR ISLE

Greta ——

I am the first in my family to be born in a hospital. My older sister was born at home and everyone prior to her. My mother was in labor with her for 26 hours, after that she vowed to have future kids in the hospital!

My dearly departed Aunt always told me that she worried about me since my placenta was not buried as is our Native custom.

Listening now………….I love her voice and her knowledge…….she speaks with an honest tongue.

Montana

Greta—————-Where is Mark?———–Please tell us on Greta Livewire,PLEASE

Ted———if you are reading,wear a purple tie tonight.Your green was awesome!

I love the Dr Ashton segments, but i had to skip this due to the probability of queasiness . I think it takes a nut to voluntarily do the home birth thing due to all the possible complications. (Apologies in advance to all the women who will say they did it.) My father was born at home as were most of his siblings. Apparently in the 30’s, in WV it was very common.

Greta, this thread and discussion is so inappropriate right now as the world waits for word that they found Maria and her unborn child, of which, had been set on fire and buried in a shallow grave.

I am just not interested in Ricki Lake and home birth while a young woman was killed, set on fire and is laying in a shallow grave.

Please repost this thread at another time as I personally find it tacky at this particular moment.

Greta i was born at home with a Dr. present.My Mother had 5 children and all but the last one was born at home.
My Fathers Mother died during child birth along with the baby and bless him he was only 2 years old.Thank God things have changed,although i beleave they should keep both Mother and baby longer…….Blessed in Austin

I know people make having a baby at home so romantic and they want to do a natural birth. My wife wanted a natural birth in the hospital no meds. At the hospital, in the labor room she only dialated 3 cetimeters in almost 3 hours and she was screaming for pain meds. We did a little intravenous paid med to relax her. Our son was born after 9 hours and within 1 hour of the intravenous pain meds. 9lbs
So, I am a big fan of our doctors, and I can agree with the dr that we cannot anticipate what could go wrong, and it is best to do it at a place that is safe: a hospital

***funny about babies don’t look like her

Ditto Linda in Michigan

Patricia………I just listened and it is a very good and important message.

The timing may not be great, but the message is and is very well worth the download and time.

Having survived a “placenta previa 41 years ago, I agree with the message Dr. Ashton is giving.

I encourage all to listen and share.

For Now, Montana

our friends delivered all 12 (yes 12) of their kids at home out here in the country…their choice. all were fine. he is a logger, not a doctor.

Yes i was born at home and I guess there has been no problems, since I am now a senior citizen.

Greta, I was born at home.

Greta, not only is this subject bad timing as you can tell by the blog count, not that many people care to hear from your Dr. Ashton. I don’t understand your fixation with her. She is boring and in my opinion adds nothing to your blog.

As Lew said, all local stations here in NC are reporting that the missing Marine’s remains have been found.

Yes, I was born at home. The eldest of seven children…

My husband was born at home during a bad snowstorm in New York in 1947. He was born
prematurely, and they gave him whiskey to keep him warm!

Of course, like Dick, I guess I’m considered a senior citizen.
Although I don’t act like one..

I really enjoy listing to Dr. Ashton’s reports.

When I gave birth 25 years ago (and more), I was asked if I wanted “natural” or not (no meds) and had the option of a “water birth” as well as other options.

BobTWA,
What exactly would you and Patricia have us do?? Hunger strike, candlelight vigil, create another Stacy Peterson death cult like this blog became for several weeks???? This is a tragic story about Maria Lauterbach, but it does not mean that the Earth must stop spinning, and that this should be the focus of every thread on Gretawire. I want justice, but I will not join this death cult mentality that so many people seem to thrive on. The blogs strength is its diversity. If you do not like a thread by all means skip it.

Well one of my coworkers who is 33 had both her daughters at home. I was amazed because she is a tiny little thing. Shorter than Greta even.

Yeah, my fat (”phat”) husband was born at home!

PHAT (Pretty hot and tempting :-)

He was the seventh of eight kidz in his family!! His older sister whipsered top me that he’d been born a twin - but that “mother never spoke of it”. They were Brits (nuff said).

I asked his mother, “Why at home?”
She said, “We called the village midwife and got on with it. No drama!”.

Gosh Ken, another night picking on me again.

Oh boy, what a question.
This is the absolute truth.
I was born in a grocery store! It was a small town grocery store, the type that had oil heat and a B…I…G heat register on the floor. (I’m sure a lot of you know the kind I am talking about)
My mom had walked down to get lunch meat for my dads lunch the next day and went into labor. By the time the Dr. got there from 30 miles away she had already had me. Gods truth

Not news. My Mom and her seven siblings were all born at home. Women have been doing this forever. Ricki Lake’s giving birth at home is not news.

I know one guy who was born at home. He was the 5th or 6th child in his family, and his mother knew she was probably in labor. She was busy with running the household, though, and figured she could get a couple of minor things done before heading to the hospital.

I guess she’d had long labors before, but not this time! My friend (who inherited the house after his parents both died) will proudly point out the exact spot where he was born. He says she walked into the room, was overcome by a labor pain, sat down on the floor and *pop*–out he came!

Patricia , I am not picking on you. I respect you, but i am stating my view.

Thanks Greta and Dr. Ashton…

Dr. Ashton, you said the only difference between a mid-wife and a doctor is the medical training and knowing how to use hospital facilities…That is not a small difference but a hugh difference, could be the difference between life of 2 or death of 2.

Otherwise I agree with your view 100%. MOO

Reading through this post, I have another couple of comments.

#1 - I know that this doesn’t happen too often, but I had complications with the delivery of my first child. She was born via emergency cesarean. I’m SO GLAD that I chose to deliver her in a hospital instead of at home, just because of that. I was using a midwife who had to call in a doctor for the cesarean, so I’m sure that if I’d chosen to deliver at home and used a midwife, she would have figured things out and gotten me to the hospital for the cesarean. However, I’m glad that I’d already had an epidural and only had to wait a few minutes for a doctor to begin the surgery. I just can’t be sure that the extra time it would have taken to get to the hospital would have led to any further complications.

#2 - BobTWA, I’m not trying to pick on you, but if we didn’t blog about anything other than the murder of the day, this blog would get really boring. The fact is that Greta DID blog about her earlier (several threads), pictures have been posted of the primary suspect, and no one is saying that that case unimportant. Even when the Peterson stuff and Natalee (is that spelled correctly?) Holloway stuff was fodder for the blog, those weren’t the only topics that Greta posted about. The murder of that woman is a horrible thing, there is no doubt. But what more can Greta do, other than what she’s already done today?

I had my 3rd child at home in a blown up swimming pool in my bedroom. My first two were born in the hospital and I did not enjoy those experiences nearly as much as my home birth. I would definetly choose homebirth again.

Home birth is a bad idea. When I was in the hospital (Stanford) delivering my 1st baby and “lifeflight” nurse was assisting. She told me point blank that a certain percentage (have since forgot) of her emergency flights were to home births gone bad. And that most of them only end up with mother survival. Get a clue silly people!

Home birth——I don’t think so

Greta,
Even though I’m a senior citizen I found Dr. Ashtons info very interesting.

As a pediatrician, I could not agree more with Dr. Ashton. I have unfortunately had to take care of babies born at home where something unexpected went wrong. Most recently, the baby did have neurologic consequences despite a reportedly healthy mother and nomal pregnancy and delivery. In medicine it is always safer to be prepared for the worst rather than surprised by it.