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Welcome Home Baby!
Two Moms Share Their Home Birth Stories
By Teri Brown
ase 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 my own birth experience."
For Larkin, giving birth naturally with people she had personally invited was very important. She wanted to be among supportive people who share her views on birth rather than labeled her as difficult.
Her family was fairly supportive of her decision. Two of her brothers are married to Dutch women, and home births are quite common in Holland. They had no qualms about her choice to give birth at home. Her mother was another story.
"My mother was worried 'in case something would go wrong,'" says Larkin. "I asked her what she feared might go wrong and she had no idea. It was just this idea she had that hospitals were safer."
Larkin thought it was amusing that most people she spoke to thought she was brave to be having her baby at home and without drugs, but she was happy to do it. She was sure she would be able to bear the pain because women have been doing so for millennia. Larkin also felt that because most pain is born of fear, her knowledge of the birthing process would help alleviate much of that pain.
Finding a doctor was also easy for Larkin. There was only one in the area who did home births so she had little choice, but she was very careful about whom she chose to be in the room with her.
"I had two friends and two
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