Transferring From Home Birth To Hospital

Transferring from Home Birth to hospital.

Transferring from a home birth is never anticipated or else people wouldn’t plan home births. Transferring from a home birth to hospital occurs when it is deemed necessary for the wellbeing of the mother and child or if the woman is too tired to continue at home.

There are two ways you can look at this subject, failure or success. There are two ways you can deal with this if it happens to you - like a failure or with success.

There are some countries where there is an ease when transferring to hospital from a home birth because both are considered normal and natural places to give birth. And often the political/legal/care system is set up to make the transition as comfortable as possible.

In other countries, transferring from a home birth to hospital is very challenging for the family, the care provider who attended the home birth and hospital providers.

For any family, the choice of a home birth can be an emotional decision. For many families giving birth at home means being surrounded by what is familiar and doing things the way you would like. That alone does not guarantee that you will stay at home and not transfer to hospital.

You can greatly increase the probability of staying at home to give birth when you learn birth and coaching skills during pregnancy. Childbirth is a very physical process. A very large object has to come out of a ‘container’. When we prepare our body for birth we do so intentionally to make that process easier and safer for both ourselves and our baby.

Part of preparing our birthing body is also learning the birth and coaching skills that help us work with our baby’s efforts to be born on the ‘Big Day’. When we couple preparing our pregnant body for birth and use the skills to work with the process then we are more likely to self reduce some of the common reasons women transfer from home births to hospital.
If we have to transfer for serious medical reasons, and are glad we live in countries where modern medicine exists, then the skills come with us and can be used. Our body will be in some place even if we need medical assessments, monitoring and procedures.

When we transfer from home to hospital, we can still use these birth and coaching skills. Obstetricians, midwives and staff absolutely love to see women coping with labour and fathers really helping. All birth professionals want families to have a very positive birth experience even if they may not support your choice to have a home birth.

You might be glad or angry that you’ve had to transfer from a planned home birth to hospital. By using your birth skills you get to impress in your memory what you have done for yourself in what has become your hospital birth. You can either be passive to the experience or doing something for yourself.

Transferring to hospital from a home birth might be a disappointment or a relief. When you have your birth skills you realise that where or with whom you birth is much less important than the working with your baby’s efforts to be born.

So get on with the glorious experience of giving birth no matter what. Use your skills and you’ll always feel empowered.

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