Homebirth in the Hospital: Integrating Natural Childbirth with Modern Medicine Book

Not what you think when you read the title. Nothing helpful about this book for a woman who truly wants a homebirth like experience in a hospital. Each of the birth stories seems to have at least one unnecessary intervention and some have several. I was looking for inspiration. I got dissappointment from the very beginning. Unfortunately I love birth stories and found myself reading, or really just skimming through the whole book.

The other thing I hated about this book is that every story ends with a negative comment about birth plans. You would think that the real point of the book is to tell women not to create a birth plan or take a childbirth prep class but just to find a doc that they're comfortable with and go with it. In my opinion its most important for a mother to be informed and knowledgeable about what interventions there are and what she can and can't avoid. This knowledge comes through frequent open discussions with one's care provider and birth place staff and inevitably a birth plan is formed in the woman's mind. As a doula I know how unique every mother is in her birthing decisions and to "just go with it" is not as easy when there is no birth plan to know what that particular mother wants and doesn't want.