When I found out I was pregnant for a second time the only thing that I was worried about was giving birth again. Despite the fact my first daughter’s birth was a straight forward water birth at the Royal Surrey it wasn’t the positive experience I had hoped for. All the community midwives at the GP surgery kept suggesting that I consider a Homebirth, but I didn’t really think I was a “Homebirth sort of person”. What about the mess? Wouldn’t it be better to keep the pain and trauma at hospital and bring my nice baby home?

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