Who Qualifies for Home Birth?

• Mothers who want VBAC births who are in the low risk category.
• First time mothers who fall into the low-risk category (do not have diabetes, disease..) high blood pressure, active tuberculosis, epilepsy, heart disease, kidney
• Second, third, fourth or more…time mothers in the low risk category.
• Mothers ranging from 16 to ? years of age.
• Mothers with insurance, mothers without insurance.• Families who want to be in charge of their birth experience.
• Families who want to be assured of a safe natural birth with as little intervention as possible.
• Home births increased 300% between 1973 and 1980. The biggest contributors to this increase are not the poor or uneducated families but come from the American middle class.