Was My Last Home Birth Illegal? (I Need Your Help!)

I wish you luck with changing the laws! I’m attempting a home vbac this August after my first birthday a (probably unnecessary) emergency C-section that left me with PTSD.its a miracle decided to ever go through with another pregnancy after my first. I can’t imagine labor in a hospital not causing flashbacks and panic attacks, so my hubby and I decided home would be best. Good luck!

We have had 6 kids, all at home and all normal healthy children who will never need braces and the girls will have ease in childbirth just like mama because they are healthy from conception Weston A Price style. Yes this is not for everyone but it has worked for us and many of our friends upon hearing our story have followed suit. We never say they should, just share our story and if the light comes on in their heads and they want to do it we support them. Step one to success in this journey is a healthy diet because a healthy body functions well and the birth process is a time when the body needs to function well if everything is to turn out fine. For us it has been the Weston A Price diet and we do not eat junk food, no sugar, no white flour and little bread period no processed food. We eat a very high fat diet but no processed fats from the store. It is our opinion that you will not have a healthy child on grocery store foods, you must grow your own or buy from a farmer you know and trust to be making nutrient dense foods. This is not easy but doable, just search Sally Fallon on you tube and watch her stuff, all good.

I’m confused by the comments because I know of a lady that had a home birth in which her baby had his umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and he was completely fine (b/c of the trained midwife). I am probably naive in this area, but wanted to know if this is different than what these comments are speaking of (is there a more severe umbilical cord issue?). Sorry that this is way after the original posting.

Just curious as I am planning to have a birth center-mid-wife-birth and have been reading everything. We will perhaps do one ultrasound but potentially none…I’m sure that would get Elizabeth in an uproar. I’m just so over the hospitals and doctors (they have helped me, but more often than not they waste my time, money, and I end up finding a natural way that actually works on whatever I went to them for). My last had to be born in the hospital due to personal extraneous circumstances, but I was so upset when they wouldn’t even act upon my simple wish of leaving the umbilical cord attached for a bit longer than normal (even though they said they would…)

And also thankful to this shedding light on the legality of home birth/birth centers. I had no clue they weren’t legal everywhere.

Kentucky is a beautiful state, but one of the worst when it comes to giving birth. No wonder the homebirth rate is higher than the national average. I had two children in Kentucky. My midwife was licensed in another state. She wasn’t near me either but we drove out to see her. I seriously contemplated crossing the border to TN and having my first at the Farm, but we probably couldn’t have paid for that.

Even if you’re lucky enough to not have a c-section, I don’t know anyone who walked out of the hospital without having had pitocin and stitches, if only one or two. And almost everyone, whether they came in wanting natural labor, ended up with an epidural. No thanks. I was gonna take my chances. I was lucky to have found a midwife who was willing to attend the birth because it was riskier for her than for me.

Sadly some women end up having an unqualified midwife attending because the state government will not allow midwifes to practice out in the open. We have over 20% medicaid/CHIP enrollment and since the c-section rate is so high, many of these women will have c-sections. And once they had one, another. Licensing midwifes and encouraging low risk homebirths if the woman wants one would certainly help, but I’m not holding my breath. I know women who didn’t have more children simply because of traumatic hospital births and feeling it they had no other options. Very sad.

Hello, I have a great appreciation for this topic; thanks for sharing your experiences and for inviting others to do the same as well as providing them with an opportunity to get involved with something very important. Everyone can benefit by taking a step out of the restrictions they have decided for themselves… by taking the risk to explore outside of their comfort zone and learn about what else there is, maybe just maybe they’ll find that there certainly is a better way of doing things.

I’m a man, about to turn 41.. born 6 weeks premature, incubated, and cut (didn’t find this out until I was 22 when I went into Marine Corps boot camp) – my mother’s doctor strongly suggested that she wrap her breasts (apparently a very popular practice in the 70s) and provided her with one “formula” or another for my nutrition, which as it turns out I couldn’t eat.. at some point along the line they started using some soy “formula” so yay me! raised on soy… it was garbage then, and it is garbage now, but that’s not why I’ve written all of this. It’s to establish some background so that readers know where I’m coming from with this comment.

Over the years, I’ve been able to reflect on my own experiences, and have even done some regression work to remember things that happened when I was very young. I decided long ago to learn as much as I could about pregnancy and birth so that if/when I was to be a father I would be capable of doing everything possible for the health and comfort of the mother and child. Probably the most important thing I’ve learned, is that men could seriously benefit from doing the same, and certainly their partners and children would benefit as well.

So… as it turns out there is a lot to learn about when it comes to pregnancy and birth, and the field of study continues to grow. With the advent of the 14th amendment and all that comes with it, pregnancy and birth now goes beyond the physical parameters of mother and child.. Birth certificates are not at all what they are marketed to be – they are tied in with the monetary system, along with social security cards, and regulation of the population. There is a reason states like KY have not “legalized” or “authorized” home births – but with the hints I have given, the entrepreneurial investigator should have no trouble researching the topic. More hints: History of Marriage Licensing, History of Birth Certificates, Debt Slavery, Tax Farming, and Maritime Law.. Stefan Molyneux, Jeff Anderson, and Duane the Great Writer all discuss these things in one form or fashion with the idea being, take the time to educate yourself, become more aware, and make better choices.

Unfortunately, there are countless mothers out there who instead of realistically educating themselves as to what is actually best for themselves and their children, they seek the “professional” advice of someone who is controlled by the medical mafia. I’m not saying that doctors don’t know their field or what’s best for their patients – but from experience, they often have unseen agendas, like script and foreskin quotas. And I’m not saying not to go to doctors, my point is simply to research as much as possible to make the best possible choices.