Benefits of giving birth at home

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There are many advantages to giving birth at home!

Avoid transportation during labor
With a home birth, you don't have to drive to the hospital during your labor, which can disrupt your contractions and make them weaker or irregular. Staying in the comfort of your home helps your body focus on your birth process.

Safe home birth results in fewer interventions
A safe home birth reduces the need for medical interventions. Research shows up to 60% fewer caesarean sections, epidural blocks and episiotomy compared to hospital births, making birth more natural and calm.

Midwife-assisted birth promotes safety and support
Having a midwife present at home ensures continuous monitoring and support, while also allowing the midwife to act quickly if a transfer to hospital is needed. This creates a safe environment for both mother and child.

Fewer complications
Home birth with a midwife has up to 30% fewer complications, including severe ruptures and major bleeding. This makes midwife-assisted home birth a safe choice for normal pregnant women.

Homebirth and better hormonal balance
In your own environment, the body produces more oxytocin, which strengthens the effectiveness of contractions, promotes well-being and creates a more harmonious natural birth.

Better breastfeeding
Women who give birth at home often experience an easier start to breastfeeding, and babies lose less weight in the first few days, creating a healthy and safe start.

Safe environments promote calm and trust
Giving birth at home provides peace, security and confidence that can follow you into motherhood. This safe home birth strengthens the connection with your child and your partner.

Home birth strengthens ownership and self-determination
You gain greater control over your birth, which increases your self-confidence as a birthing mother and provides a more personal experience.

Intimate home birth for you and your partner
Your home allows for an intimate birth experience where you and your partner can be closely involved, without the distractions of hospital routines.

The partner's role in home birth
Your partner can support you more actively during birth, which strengthens the relationship and creates an inclusive birth.

Create your own birth environment
You can choose music, lighting and decorate with fairy lights, creating a cozy and relaxed atmosphere that promotes a positive birth experience.

Food and drink during home birth
During home birth, you can decide for yourself what foods and drinks you want and when you want to consume them, which provides energy and comfort throughout the birth.

Siblings may be present
Home birth offers the opportunity to include siblings, creating a calm and safe experience for the whole family.

Skin to skin from the first second
From the first moment you can have skin-to-skin contact with your baby, which strengthens attachment and breastfeeding, without interruptions.

Historical natural birth
Home birth has been the most natural way to give birth throughout most of human history, and midwife-assisted birth brings this tradition into modern times.

Stay home after giving birth
After the birth, you can stay at home with your newborn without stress, transportation or hospital routines, which provides a calm and safe start.

Comfort and practical benefits
You don't have to transport a newborn and change clothes. You have soft towels, toilet paper and everything that makes the experience comfortable and personal.

Water birth at home
If you have a birthing tub, you can enjoy a water birth at home, which relieves pain and makes the birth more comfortable.

The placenta is handled according to your wishes.
If you want to keep the placenta, you can put it directly in the refrigerator, which provides control and flexibility.

Familiar smells and sounds create calm
Your child encounters the world in familiar surroundings with familiar sounds and smells, creating a calm and gentle start to life.

The most peaceful start for baby
Everything in the home supports a gentle transition for the child, where both mother and baby experience a harmonious and safe start to life without unnecessary stress.