Why can Homebirth Cesarean (HBC) be uniquely difficult?

💡The contrast from home to hospital can be shocking - the tranquil, dimly lit, quiet, intimate home space versus the stark, brightly lit, loud and busy hospital.

Even when women don’t have the opportunity to labor at home, the process of planning a homebirth can lead to feels of deep regret and loss.

💡Key support members, like midwives and doulas, are sometimes unable to accompany a mother in the hospital (especially during Covid). This disrupts continuity of care.

💡Hospital staff and doctors sometimes mistreat women who planned homebirths, or hold biases against them.

💡Partners might be frazzled if a transfer takes place after many hours of laboring at home or after multiple sleepless nights.

💡Many homebirthing mamas have a strong attachment to physiological birth, which is closely linked to their identity as a woman and a mother.

A cesarean might represent the antithesis of a mother’s belief system, undermining her intuition, self worth, identity, and faith. Not to mention any birth trauma that occurs as a result of her experience with labor, transfer, surgery, recovery, or bonding/feeding.

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