Is anyone else's midwives pushing you to have a home birth

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That's fantastic! You're more likely to need less intervention when you plan to birth at home, even if you end up transferring. There was a study called The Birth Place Study that found there's no difference in infant mortality, but women planning a homebirth were far more likely to have a normal vaginal birth (non-instrumental) Here's a really good post on it if you want to read up https://www.sarawickham.com/research-updates/is_home_birth_safe/#:~:text=It%20is%20important%20to%20know,results%20that%20the%20'higher%20risk' If you book in with the homebirth team, you're just giving yourself more options on the day you go into labour. Remember if you want to transfer in, you always can, but if on the day you can't bear the idea of getting into the car, you're a bit stuck if you haven't registered with the homebirth team Another plus is with the HB team you do tend to get far better continuity of care (see the same midwife for your appointments) and you get to have your appointments at home

I've had one hospital birth (which started in the birth centre), and one home birth, and the homebirth was 1000% better. I wish I'd chosen homebirth for the first one! There's a fantastic Facebook group too called Homebirth Support Group UK where you can read birth stories and get advice (e.g. where to hire a birth pool from if you wanted one, what to expect if X happens etc..) which was so useful