Movie produced by a proud Papa.
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He said in the info on You Tube: “Unassisted home water birth of my son.
The video does not indicate that my wife nearly died later from blood loss due to a hemorrhage. She pulled through fine, though. Baby was always fine. Strongest baby we’ve ever had.”
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I also had a hemorrhage after my first UC birth in 1996. We transferred to the hospital after Andrew was born because we could not get him to breath and his cord detached at birth. I also bled out down to a 4.7 hematocrit. Don’t have any regrets about doing the birth myself though. The docs never would have let me go to 45 weeks and his birth was the easiest of all five despite his huge eleven pound size. Just about all of my many friends who have given birth at home, who then went on to have complications like a retained placenta or a hemorrhage have all said they were still glad to be at home to give birth.
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I have since learned that a toxic liver can prove problematic for mothers during birth. I did about 35 liver cleanses between Andy and Bens births and it made me feel much more confident to birth at home alone. Go here to learn more about liver cleansing!Â
