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[Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

> So you gave birth at home, like james described? I guess there is a lot 
> going on around me in the world of which >I am not aware. Everyone I know 
> gets mad because their wife gets sent home from the hospital too soon. 
I couldn't find any midwives willing to do home birth, so I went to a Birth 
Center. It was a nice place, in a big old Victorian house, with real bedrooms 
and with no doctors in sight, completely run by absolutely wonderful 
midwives. The first time, I called when my water broke and they kept telling 
me it would be hours yet, and to wait until the contractions were 
stronger...I finally followed my instincts and went to the Birth Center. The 
baby was crowning when I got there, and born within  minutes. With the second 
one, they had me come in at the first sign of labor. They get the mother up 
and moving quickly and send them home within a few hours. 
 
BTW the HMO we had at the time would have covered any kind of expensive 
hospital birth, but not the Birth Center prenatal care or birth...we had to 
pay the $700 out of pocket.
 
Lynn Wigglesworth
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