{"id":2000,"date":"2010-10-05T10:10:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T09:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2010-10-05T10:10:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T09:10:22","slug":"choosing_home_birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2010\/10\/05\/choosing_home_birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing home birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAdrian was born at home, just like Ingrid. It was absolutely the right decision for us; everything went very smoothly and I will definitely aim for the same next time (if and when that happens).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI know many people think of choosing home birth as a brave thing to do. And I can sort of understand their point of view&#8230; but only in my head, not in my heart. For me, home birth is the easy choice, the alternative that does not require any bravery.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPerhaps it comes down to what you have more confidence in: your body, or the health care system. I know I have a healthy body that can do just about anything a body is supposed to do. It is rarely unwell, has no chronic problems, does not break easily.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOr maybe it&rsquo;s about being in control. I have an aversion to other people making decisions for me, to not being in control of my own life. I dislike strangers, noise, hassle. A hospital birth would make me nervous and anxious. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NcHdF1eHhgc\">Machines that go <i>ping<\/i><\/a>, shift changes, strange smells, other mothers giving birth next door &ndash; I don&rsquo;t even want to think about it. A home birth on the other hand is a calm, undisturbed experience.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPeople mention pain, too. That&rsquo;s what everybody thinks about first when thinking about giving birth. This birth was definitely an easy one, but of course I made my decision not knowing that, based on how Ingrid&rsquo;s birth went. And there was pain, of course, but it was never unmanageable. I really don&rsquo;t know if it was less painful than the average birth, or if I am more tolerant of pain than the average mother, or if it is simply about expectations and perceptions. I accepted that it would hurt and decided to live with it, and not worry more about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian was born at home, just like Ingrid. It was absolutely the right decision for us; everything went very smoothly and I will definitely aim for the same next time (if and when that happens). I know many people think of choosing home birth as a brave thing to do. And I can sort of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[629,630,479,646,346,343],"class_list":["post-2000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observing_the_self","category-pregnant","tag-birth","tag-healthcare","tag-home_birth","tag-pain","tag-pregnancy","tag-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}