Why Have a Home Birth?

Professional health care can be provided for the mother and unborn infant with a licensed midwife at a greatly reduced price, here are a few of the other reasons you may want to choose a home birth:

• Surroundings are familiar and comfortable.
• Supportive families may participate in the birthing process.
• Mother has a very active role in her care.
• Care is personalized to meet the needs of the mother and family.
• Risk of infection and other complications is reduced.
• Mother and newly born infant are never separated.
• No routine hospital procedures.
• Mother has the ability to choose a position for labor and birth which is least stressful to her baby and to herself.
• Midwife is able to take more time with the mother and family to answer their questions and concerns.
• Father may have a very active role in the birth process, if he so chooses.