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From a Dad to Dads
*The 7 Secrets of Being A Home Birth Dad *
By Ven Batista
Ven Batista wrote this article after his wife, Bel, had her second daughter at home in London.
All Dads-to-be are nervous, or at least skeptical, when their wife/partner first mentions the idea of having a home birth. This is nothing to be ashamed of – us guys are conditioned by a lifetimes constant bombardment that Doctors know best and that it is our patriarch’s duty to always make the safest choices. That’s why when my wife Bel first brought up the idea for the birth of our second daughter, my first train of thought was about risk. Images of John Hurt’s chest cracking open and a tiny, evil alien being screeching its bloody arrival to the universe ran through my mind. I looked up at the walls of our apartment and wondered whether an arterial spray of blood could ever be washed out of that particular shade of off-white.
Ten minutes’ googling dissolved my misconception that home birth is reckless (with Bel peering over my shoulder and directing me to websites she’d already read). In a nutshell, there are studies for and against, but if you listen to your own common sense you will probably agree it’s just as safe, if not safer. You can find all that stuff for yourself, what I want to really want to talk about is the second train of though that ran through my head – why?
Why have a home birth? My wife had her reasons and she laid them out for me. Bel had a horrible experience in hospital with our first daughter and that was a big part of it. As Bel explained it to me I nodded and said ‘umm’ a lot and was happy to go along with it because I knew it was what she wanted. But I never had reasons of my own – from my selfish perspective as a Dad – until after I had experienced it for myself. These reasons are the 7 secrets I want to share with you Dads now so that you can appreciate your home birth the first time round.
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{This is one of the most (if not the most) extreme birth we have included. Be aware, as babe seems to be under water a long time, in actuality it is only 30 seconds. Below, I will add some of the father’s comments on this from the video Youtube page.}
Ocean Birth of Sonoma (via xiodanse)
OCEAN BIRTH OF A BABY BOY!- IN THE SUMMER OF 1994, WE (THE DANSE FAMILY) TRAVEL TO SPAIN TO BIRTH OUR SON “SONOMA” IN A TIDE POOL ON THE SEA COAST OF THE COSTA BLANCA- UNASSISTED AND UNDER THE MIDDAY SUMMER SUN- “SONOMA” IS BORN UNDER WATER AND SWIMS TETHERED TO HIS UMBILICAL CORD- MOM (NICA) FROM HONDURAS HAS AN ECSTATIC BIRTH WHILE DAD (ROE) SUPPORTS AND VIDEOS-
we shipped an american van to europe equipped with an inflatable zodiac boat- after numerous days of searching the sea coast with all the kids adventuring- we found this ancient coastal roman rock quarry which had become exposed to the sea- we then spent days relocating many days relocating many hundreds of beautiful tide pool animals to ready our birthing pool- we camped there for 10 days before and 10 days after the birth!
the water temperature in the open ocean outside the birthing pool was about 70- but inside our protected natural pool the temperature was a perfect 95- so sonoma could swim without risk of triggering the differentiation of temperature switch to breathing response- giving him more time to swim
the salinity of uterine life- the amniotic fluid is about 9 ppt (parts per thousand) while the ocean where sonoma was born was 34- much saltier- yet he moved from a salty environment to another- and opened his eyes in the tide pool with no notice-
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 As the American resurgence of Home Birth began in the 1970s, there was little evidence of its safety. Today, we have wide support of the scientific literature to prove that a Home Birth is not only as safe, if not safer, a place to give birth, but offers a more gentle, compassionate and respectful birth to mom and baby. "It has never been scientifically proven that the hospital is a safer place than home for a woman who has had an uncomplicated pregnancy to have her baby. Studies of planned home births in developed countries with women who have had uncomplicated pregnancies have shown sickness and death rates for mother and baby equal to or better than hospital birth statistics for women with uncomplicated pregnancies." ~World Health Organization (WHO) report A Sister Site of the Trust Birth Initiative. | |
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