More Babies Prefer Home Birth

For some pregnant Long Beach mothers, the first signs of labor don’t sound an alarm to grab an already-packed suitcase and head for the nearest hospital. Instead, they call their midwife, set up a birthing tub, play some relaxing music and let nature handle the rest. “When you do a home birth with a midwife, it’s all about you,” said Jenna DeRosa, who had two of her four children at home. It isn’t that she had traumatic experiences with her first two births that have since kept her from the hospital. Rather, she said, home birth is all about the comfort of the mother and the baby. Everything is done on the mother’s schedule instead of the staff’s.