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What questions are good to ask my home birth midwives? I already have some about their statistics, mental support training, "what do you do if baby's shoulders get stuck" and "how would you handle a heammorage"
Pls let me know what questions you found useful, or think are useful to ask. What I need is to know I'm trusting the right people with my life and my baby's life
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Talk out different scenarios and see how they would handle them. Are they a midwife more naturally minded or what I like to call a medwife which is more medically minded. I thought I had a midwife and ended up with a medwife. I was pushing 42 weeks so she wanted me to deliver in a hospital which was TOTALLY against what I wanted. I ended up having a beautiful home birth but she did a lot more medical things than I had thought would happen.
I find it helpful to ask what their philosophy of birth is and under what circumstances they would transfer you to a hospital and what care in those circumstances would look like. Also asking if you can choose the position you’d like to give birth in.