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Preparing for a home birth

Advice on preparing for a home birth with information on the preparations you should make and the role of the midwife.

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Preparing for a home birth:

Talk to your midwife. Get to know her and her colleagues. If you can, talk to someone else who has had a home birth.

Check that your GP will cover a home birth. If not, find a doctor who will. (Your midwife will help with this.)This does not necessarily mean your GP being present at the birth; it means being prepared to come if the midwife calls for him/her.

Encourage your partner to join in with the preparations. Plan together to fill the freezer, clean the house, organise any other children etc.

Try and arrange some extra help for a few days after the baby is born.

Make sure the room where your baby will be born is warm.

Try and be reasonably near the bathroom. This makes life much easier.

Have access to a telephone.

Have some sort of protection for carpets.

Have a table for the midwife to put her equipment on.

Have lots of nice warm towels for you and your baby.

Get your beanbag out and your rocking chair and any other "special" extras you think you might want.

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hi. i have had 2 home births and this will be my 3rd i would tell u all to have home births they are great. i will never give birth in hostpital again.
	added by 3boysandpreg [Mon 28th Jan 2008 @ 18:12:39]

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