This is a question I have just had in my inbox. And the short answer is yes! A lot of people think it is not possible, including...

It's my #4's 16th birthday. Here's his birth story. I was fed up. It was my due date. All of my previous three babies had come well before their EDD. I was hot. It was a gorgeous August day. The birth pool had been up for three weeks. It was a rigid pool that had to be bolted together. For the past three weeks I had several hours of surges every day, so we had kept it up. I thought, "Sod it! It's hot; let's all get in the pool." So I filled the pool and the children and I do

Many women are told 'you're not allowed to ...'. Not allowed to have a home birth with twins. Not allowed to have a water birth with twins. Not allowed to have a home birth after 42 weeks. This birth story comes from Laura, who knows it is women who do the allowing. Supported by AIMS and local consultant midwife, to have a positive home birth previously, finding herself pregnant with twins, she knew she was the one making the decisions about their birth. Her body. Her baby. L

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

I am thrilled to share this lovely birth story with you from first time mum, Michelle. The moment I found I was pregnant I was absolutely over the moon, but at the same time I was filled with fear. Not the usual apprehension a lot of first time mums have: ‘how am I going to cope?’ ‘how am I going to push a baby out?’ ‘how much is my life going to change?’ etc. None of that – all that was going through my mind was ‘sh*t I’m going to have to go to hospital!’ Hospitals fill

The home birth story of my youngest, who's now six. It seems to me that all babies give us an insight to their personalities when they are still in the womb. Connor was never still and kicked me in the ribs till I was sore – now 15 he is a mad keen sportsman. So it should have been no surprise to me that Ben would be born in glorious sunshine as I used to call him my sunshine baby as the thought of baby number five made me so happy. Like the last two times I saw no reason

Of course home birth is not for everyone but there are some advantages to booking one even if you plan to give birth in hospital. 1. You might like it Booking a home birth keeps your options open. It is much easier to say 'I'd like to go to hospital now' than to be in hospital and turning around and saying 'Actually I'd like a home birth.' (Though it is possible and I know it has been done.) You don't have to stay at home but at least you've got that option. Areas that h