Which areas of Luton and Dunstable have the most home births? Three of my babies were born at home with midwives from Luton and Dunstable Hospital. This picture is the first of those. I’ve also been at lots of home births in the area as a doula. I have always found the community midwives to be very supportive of home birth, with the odd exception.

My reflection on over 10 years of supporting people planning a VBAC (vaginal birth after a previous caesarean birth).

A little bit of history. Did you know that the big move from home birth to hospital happened after a government report in 1970? I was born in 1968, at home, which was the norm then. Even breech and twins were considered normal to birth at home. The number of hospital births had increased since the advent of the NHS, but still the majority happened at home. The Peel report in 1970 linked the reduction in perinatal mortality figures since the war to the increase in hospital b