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Welcome Home Baby!
Two Moms Share Their Home Birth Stories
By Teri Brown
if the mom is sure she wants to have her baby this way," says Hawkins. "It is the hardest work I have ever done, but I would do it all over again without a second thought. I loved birthing my babies at home!"
Living by Your Convictions
Hazel Larkin, a mother of two from Dublin, Ireland, has definite beliefs about childbirth, breastfeeding and parenting and tries to live her life by those convictions. Having her baby in a hospital was not an option for her. "Hospitals are for sick people and childbirth is neithera disease nor an illness," says Larkin. "I am aware that a lot of unnecessary interventions and invasive procedures are performed on women in childbirth when they surrender to doctors, midwives and nurses in hospitals. I wanted to avoid all that. I wanted to own
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