Home Birth

After giving birth to baby No. 1 at the hospital in a rather dramatic fashion, Holly Pevzner decided to give birth to baby No. 2 at home. Here she shares why she did it, her preparations for the big day, and the details of her homebirth.

...Many women contemplate giving birth at home because they want to avoid the high-tech atmosphere... and interventions of a hospital. You're a good candidate for a home birth if you're in good health and have... an uncomplicated pregnancy. Still, most expectant mothers don't get past the thinking stage -- home births account...

... never in a million years thought I would do: have a midwife-assisted home birth. Both sides of my family... observed. "Waaaah!" I cried. He was right. And a test confirmed it. When we got home I let my HMO assign... a healthy baby than to start dreaming up a feel-good birth plan. To cap it all off, she started...

... birth at home: Lisa Bonet, Cindy Crawford, Meryl Streep, or Demi Moore. Surprise! All four celebrity... moms gave birth in the privacy and comfort of their own homes. Actress Lisa Bonet, born Lisa Boney..., gave birth to all three of her daughters, with former husband Bruce Willis, at home: Rumer Glenn, born...

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..., and Claire, 3, and getting to know the child they had all helped deliver. "I'm not a home-birth kind of gal...-clear to return home. Her family spent Christmas Eve playing games with Jenny and Michael's other kids, Grace, 5... the five-mile drive from her new home in Calabasas, California, to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in Los...

...When I became pregnant, I was your average 28-year-old, just as nervous about giving birth... as the next mom-to-be. I didn't stand firmly in either the natural-birth or the epidural camp. I didn't know... that my highest priority was to have the safest birth possible. It seemed so illogical to avoid drugs...

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... home birth. If you choose not to deliver at home, your midwife will make a house call to check... birth early in the day without complications, she and the baby may go home in as little as two hours... to New York City, mother and baby stay home for the first 20 days after the birth. Friends drop...

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... comments, too, which floored me. Home-birth advocates branded me a coward for having an epidural... gave birth, I had a few hundred subscribers, primarily other mothers, to my channel, youtube....com/loraandlayton. I always knew I would videotape my birth, even before I got pregnant. I wanted to have a record...

... that day. On the front lawn Jennifer Coffman Ann Arbor, Michigan Jennifer Coffman had a home birth.... The performance was called "The Birth of Baby X," and she had transformed the space into a home-birthing center...On the kitchen floor Dorothy Price Charlotte, North Carolina Price's ob-gyn sent her home from...

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... family. When everyone was stable, the family would go home, usually not more than 12 hours after birth... -- and I'd receive a home visit from a midwife at 24 and 36 hours after birth to perform newborn screenings...'t sure how I'd get any with a 2-year-old and 4-year-old running around at home. In order to make a birth...

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