How many DU'ers here had a parent or parents born at home, both of mine were.

[texanwitch]

Both my parents lived on a farm, and were born in the 1920's.

My mother was delivered by a midwife, my father by a Doctor.

[azmouse]

1. My dad was born at home in 1933.

When his younger sister was born, he remembered the doctor coming to the house to help his mother.
My grandmother delivered all 8 of her children at home.

[texanwitch]

11. My Greatgrand mothers gave birth to many children at home.

They were tough women.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. My dad, in 1919.

He turns 90 next week!

[texanwitch]

5. Happy birthday to your Dad.

:party: :bounce: :bounce:

My Grandparents lived to be in their middle 90's.

[handmade34]

3. my kids were born at home

daughter in 1975, in Okemos Michigan. Son, daughter and son in 1983, 1984 and 1989 in Barnet and Danville, Vermont. I had great experiences and would not have done anything differently.

[Kali]

6. ...

:thumbsup:

[texanwitch]

7. I have a friend who gave birth at home twice.

The third child in a hospital.

[Kali]

4. nope, but both of my sons were

B-)

[texanwitch]

8. I liked the way circle has turned around to home births.

My Greatgrandmother, her sisters and a few of the daughters were midwifes.

[hippywife]

9. My dad was in 1938.

He weighed 13 pounds and his arm was broken when they were trying to deliver him. They then taped his arm to his belly so it would remain immobile while it healed. The tape ended up tearing the skin off his tummy.

It's my theory for why he's always been so mean. :hi:

[texanwitch]

12. My uncle was dropped on his head when he was born , for real.

He was never normal, always a little slow.

[Withywindle]

10. My mom was born at home in 194?

The question mark? Well, she knows she was born at home. She knows her mother was sickly and almost died from it (she did eventually die when my mom was 10 years old, in the 50s; her father is also deceased, in the 80s in a car accident). She knows that her mom couldn't get to the hospital because of a flood washing out the roads.

She found out just about five years ago that the paperwork, when it finally got done some time after she was born (this was in rural Brazil), was incorrect. Her significantly-older brothers were like, "No, your birth certificate is WRONG! That flood when you were born? I remember! That was in 1948, not 1947!"

So in her 50s, she found out she was a year younger than she's always thought she was. She got married at 19, not 20. She is 5 years younger than my dad, not 4. She is 20 years older than me, not 21. And when I went far away to college a year early, at 17, that wasn't some freak precocious thing, that was me following right in her footsteps!

[handmade34]

13. :-) good story

after 50, age doesn't matter as much, well at least I don't care to remember how old I've become...

[Withywindle]

15. She was glad to get that extra year back!

But she's in such good shape anyway: professional dancer and dance teacher now. She's a total babe still, and defensive of her babe-ness (to the point where sometimes, when she's performing and I'm acting as her assistant, I've been instructed to lie or misdirect about our relationship, because I'm unapologetically 40.)

Her karma coming back: on one of our visits back to her family's home city (Salvador, Bahia - she was born on the family farm outside of town) some young cuties working for the city's very excellent safer-sex program in the clubs and on the beaches took us for a lesbian couple. :blush: (Hey, we were having an emotional moment, we were hugging, our complexions and accents are very different, I see it...but still, karma. :rofl:)

[PassingFair]

14. My cousin's wife couldn't wait for the midwife....

He had to deliver the baby himself!

His baby was born on the same day that
my second baby was born, so I called him
from the hospital here in the US (he's
British)...he still hadn't slept and he
told me the whole story.

He said that his wife, Debbie, had been
very brave and never cried...

"Stiff upper lip?" I asked.

"It's not her upper lip I was
worried about!" he shot back.

They live in Australia now....and
feel right at home.

[Silver Swan]

16. Both my parents were born at home in 1914.

I wasn't born in a hospital, either. I was born in the doctor's office. The doctor had a delivery room set up there. Afterward, my mother and I went to a convalescent home for two weeks.

When my own children were born in the 1970's, my mother was amazed that I was home and doing normal things only two days after giving birth!

[arcadian]

17. If by "home" you mean Zeta Reticuli, then yes both "parents" were hatched... oops... I mean "born"

at "home".

[Manifestor_of_Light]

18. Both of mine were born at home.

Mom in 1921 in the Rio Grande Valley.

Dad in 1911 in Ohio.

As for me personally, as a mother, I cannot imagine having a baby without pain relief and medical supervision. It can be very dangerous.

I say this because I had a planned C-section with a spinal anaesthetic. I had an eight-pound full term healthy baby, and knew I would have to have a C-section. I'm a small woman with a narrow wheelbase. The doctor said I had to have a C-section and he was right.

If it wasn't for medical science both I and my (grown) child would have died.

[pokerfan]

19. Both of mine were

[bluesbassman]

20. Stepdad was. 1919 in San Leandro. 1st generation.

One of his brothers was actually born on the ship his parents immigrated from Portugal on.

[SeattleGirl]

21. My dad was.

His parents lived in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it little whistle-stop in the south. Pretty much everybody there was born at home.

[Skittles]

22. both of mine were born at home, in the 30's

[semillama]

23. My great--grandmother delivered my father at home

The doctor showed up drunk to the farm and passed out on the couch, then got my father's birthdate wrong on the birth certificate. Luckily, my great-grandmother had participated in a lot of births, and got my dad out ok - he was breach!

[Orsino]

24. Both of mine were (at the beginning of the Depression). n/t

[Zomby Woof]

25. Just one

But with the resurgence of midwives these past few years, being born at home won't be as rare as it has been.