Parenting - Home Birth vs Hospital birth

We talk about:

• Choosing a hospital, birth center, or homebirth
• Reasons you should consider a home birth
• Our hospital birth story
• Importance of hiring a doula 
• What is a Certified Professional Midwife
• Interviewing and choosing a midwife
• Storing cord blood
• Delayed cord clamping
• Placenta Encapsulation
• Cost of a homebirth
• Postpartum visits with a midwife

We recommend:

• The Business of Being Born
• Comparison chart of CNM, CM, CPM
• The BMJ Safety of Home Birth Study 
• CMAJ Outcomes of planned home birth vs hospital birth study
• Over the Top - Jonathan Van Ness
• Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss