A Home Birth Gone Wrong, sadly.

So there's this website.....Joyous Birth....it is run by an advocate for free birth. Free birth is giving birth to your child at home, without any medical help of any kind. No doctors, nurses, midwives, absolutely nothing.

For a lot of women, things go perfectly fine. This site is full of hospital horror stories, and home birth success stories.

What people may not realize, is that the woman who runs this site, has recently given "free birth", and her child did not survive. An ambulance was called, but it was too late. Extremely heartbreaking.

First let me say my heart truly goes out to this woman. It doesn't matter who you are, or what method of childbirth you decide to use, when something like this happens, my heart goes out to you. I could not imagine losing a baby.

With that being said, I believe she should post her story on her website. She runs a website with all of these success stories, and pictures, it's....well...."joyous". But she herself, is a perfect example of why you SHOULD use some sort of medical help when giving birth. Home birth, I definitely understand the appeal there, but there should at the very least, be a midwife present.

I won't pretend I know whether a hospital birth, or an at home birth are safer statistically, because I don't know. However, irregardless of which is safer, I believe she should have some concern for what her website may put into women's minds. The fact is, something could go very very wrong in a home birth, even if you do everything right. She's a perfect example of that.

I want, and I think the people who visit her website deserve to hear from her.