#maybe i shouldve included the screenshots but also maybe people should seek out what we're all talking about before telling us we're wrong

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The whole home birth this is sooo personal and all the institutional problems with hospitals make it a sensitive topic. Idk it’s hard to say without knowing exactly what someone’s complications are if there is immediate risk, long term risk, risk for the mother or baby or both.

As someone who planned for a home birth but didn’t end up doing one because of complications, my complications were not emergency related. A complication could be that the baby pooped, that your water broke or your labour is slow. Nothing inherently wrong but poses other risks at different levels of severity.

Not defending anyone just wanted to point out complications are a suuuper vague term and range from emergency to monitoring in a hospital environment. It can mean anything that isn’t going routinely under specific (sometimes legal) medical definitions and can come up at any time. Many of these don’t need any monitoring once the baby is born and can leave the hospital soon after (Some do ofc).

For example, if you are being monitored for non emergency related complications you can have a home-like “natural birth” just have an IV in and a heart monitor strapped to your stomach.

Anyway just wanted to point out that just because someone has had “complications” doesn’t mean they will repeat or that it endangers subsequent labours or pregnancies.

Again..........................context.

Bethany said the "complications" thing I referenced in response to a question about someone being VERY afraid of serious medical complications. And I paraphrased, she said a lot of other things in her random answers/rants like "complications" are "rare" (which if she's operating by your definition sounds even more false than it did to me originally). I'm sure she was trying to make her feel better but it's just not accurate or ethical to tell people not to worry about planning for these kinds of things when it comes to birth.

So I thank you for the information but this is tangential at best.