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I don't know a doctor or midwife who would allow a women pregnant with multiples with a previous C-section to have a home birth. She may "like the idea" of one, but there's no way it's going to happen ...

Actually, there are PLENTY of midwives who would birth twins at home after a C-section if the twins are in the appropriate positions and are not too big. Angelina is probably responding to the trauma C-sections cause ... on the body, mind, and spirit. As a woman who originally planned a homebirth and ended up with a C-section five weeks before my due date, I absolutely feel for Angelina and wish her a safe and happy homebirth!

If you do a simple online search you'll find lots of twin VBAC Homebirth stories.  They are amazing and touching to read.  I really hope it works out for her!

I like that we can see the elastic of Angie's bid ol' maternity undies through her tight dress. "The stars are just like us!" ;)

I still don't believe she's having twins. Looks like a singleton to me.

Also, I do believe that a midwife would be willing to attempt a VBAC of a singleton and/or twins, but I don't think a medical doctor would attempt it at all, especially outside of a medical facility.

Can you really call a birth with a "team" of doctors a 'home birth,' even if it's at home? I mean, more than likely, they'll be IV's and electrical monitors, ect.... wouldn't that be considered more of the atmosphere of a hospital or a birth center rather than a home?

she is so not having twins...that is a singleton belly. I have seen  multiple bellies and that is a far cry from it.

I also hardly call having a team of "professional" i.e a doctor...a true homebirth. Don't get me wrong I don't blame her for wanting a private home birth. I had my first son in a home of a midwife birth center and my daughter at home in my own bed and this one if all goes well we be born in our home also. But really flying in a team for your birth is basically like flying the hospital staff into your home...ahhh the joys of having endles cash...lol More power to her...I think having babies in hospitals is to medicalized anyway. And VBAC's are no big deal either, I don't get why the big fuss. You aren't going to rip open at the seams like so many woman have been programmed to think. Go A.J. I hope that baby goes head down and all is easy pezzy! Just remmeber the pain is only a moment in your life and then bam it is gone as soon as that baby is out (that is if your are going drug free).

here here, Carlie..... I agree. I went drug free and within seconds of my son being born looked at my husband (after 50 hours of labor and 30 minutes of pushing!) and said, "that wasn't so bad!!"

I'm pulling for you on your wishes for a homebirth!!

Sassy Smith, don't knock it before you try it. I'v gone both routes, and would never do it in the hospital-with drugs-again. The pain is part of the process, it's to be embraced, not pushed away. It will empower you and enrich your life without doubt. But honestly, I understand where you come from because I used to think like you, until I read some really informative and logical books. Given the right information all women will come to the conclusion that home birth is a viable, and even desirable alternative.

sassy smith thats becasue you never tried natural birth

Sorry, Sassy Smith, but even that is not a true natural birth.  Homebirth is just a completely different mindset than being in the hospital, and even than being in the hospital without drugs.  I've had a hospital induction which ended in a c/s and 2 home VBAC's, due for #3 vbac in a few months.  There is absolutely no comparison.

Although, I despise Angelina, I hope she gets her ideal birth!

Want a medal Mamadoula?  Get off your frigging pedestal.

Sassy Smith, mamadoula is right on, actually. It's not less important that you've experienced birth at all, but physiologically speaking, there is a huge difference between giving birth uninhibited and without medications or interventions and having an epidural wear off. It's not a matter of being better than another, it's about optimizing the  conditions surrounding birth in order to improve the outcome of initial attachment. This is science, not science fiction.

Thank god for medical intervention when it is necessary. In most cases, however, interventions beget interventions and doctors and hospitals cause the problems they're there to solve.

mamadoula i will give you a medal . . . you deserve it!

you are right there is no comparison - my first was born at the hospital and my second was born at home - it was like night and day :)

very nicely said anarchist - it totally agree!

natural birth is one w/ out intervention and/or medications.  it is allowing the natural process of birth to occur - for both the mother and the baby - a natural birth is full of much needed hormones and the like to promote attachment, as anarchist mentioned.

not one where meds wore off in time to push.

Uh oh Sassy - you've stepped in it now!  

Well I gave birth to both of my kids while squatting and biting down on a tree trunk - and each kid came out of my nostrils simultaneously.  TOP THAT!

(See how ridiculous this sounds?)  Who cares?  You're no less of a mother whether you gave birth through your vagina or an incision, drugs or not.  Get over yourselves.

Karen Sugarpants, that's proposterous, everyone knows babeis are delivered by surgery these days, not noses. ;)

Sassy no ones dissin ya, their just stating facts

there is scientific evidence that the hormonal releases during birth are inhibited w/ any sort of medical intervention - ie. an epidural, pitocin, stadol, what have you.

you are giving birth naturally when you allow the process of birth to occur naturally.  this is not an opinion - it is evidence based truth.

*throws up hands*

karen you give up quite easily *shrug*

i believe that we, as a society, have forgotten how important our birth experiences are to us as women and as babies - birth creates imprints in us as women and a baby's birth creates its first impressions of the world

here is a quote from Marsden Wagner that i love:

“By medicalizing birth, i.e. separating a woman from her own environment and surrounding her with strange people using strange machines to do strange things to her in an effort to assist her, the woman’s state of mind and body is so altered that her way of carrying through this intimate act must also be altered and the state of the baby born must equally be altered. The result is that it is no longer possible to know what births would have been like before these manipulations. Most health care providers no longer know what “non-medicalized birth is. The entire modern obstetric and neonatological literature is essentially based on observations of “medicalized” birth.“

you have a super day too!

oh, i forgot - here is the link to the memo ;)

www.marsdenwagner.com/fish.html

karen - that's a hilarious image!  

but why so defensive?  nobody said doody about 'less of a mother' and i didn't see any blatant one-up-mama-ship - maybe wires crossed with some other conversation?  

there are physiological differences in the birthing process under different birthing conditions.  it's not about superiority and it's not something you can argue away.  if you've done both, you've felt the difference.  if you haven't... fine!  but don't assume than anyone who has, and tells you about it, is trying to make you feel bad.