Adalynn's Birth Story
I have to start by saying that my first three children were born at home, the first in CA and the next two in Seattle, WA. With Kieren I had help paying for a midwife and with Zoe and Freija, home birth was actually covered by insurance. Sadly in Michigan that is not the case and since we only had one income at the time (and it was next to nothing), I opted for a hospital birth because it was covered by Medicaid. At first I was extremely aprehensive, even a little scared because it was not what I was used to or felt comfortable with at all. I tend to believe that hospitals are for sick people and I have done a lot of reading about the "cascade of interventions" that happen in the hospital setting with birth and my worst fear was that this birth would end in a caeserean. Let me be clear, I have no judgment towards women who have had medicated births or c-sections, it's just not what I wanted for myself. I acknowledge that often these things are necessa...