Yesterday, my wife gave birth to a beautiful daughter, Janelle Marie at 5:14 P.M. at our home. Everything went of splendidly and everyone is in the pink of health.
I wasn’t going to post this, but I just had to crow about it!
…went off dangit!
I reckon I ought to make this an “Ask Me About Homebirth” thread, to make it a bit more useful…
I can tell you that it’s definately a plus to be at home the whole time instead of going to the hospital and going through the whole ::shudder:: hospital experience.
congrats, man.
That is great news. I don’t understand how you’ll have any time left over for SDMB, but hey, good news anyway.
Congratulations Pop! 
congrats! glad the birth went well.
3 are a handful
Thanks! As far as all that “oh, boy, you’re going to have your hands full” goes, I’m just sticking my fingers in my ears and going la-la-la…
Oh, and my hands are full right now, with a sleeping baby, and I’m typing one-handed. Life is good!
Three eh. What’s that, one of each?
Congratulations.
Congrats! Do we get pictures?
Welcome new little doper!
I want more info on home birthin’. Not that we are having anymore. I had Mr. Ujest spade this year :D, but it always amazes and humbles me the entire home birth thing.
Welcome to the world, little Janelle Marie. And best of luck to Arky, Mrs. Arky and the other two Little Arkys
No pics yet; waiting for digital cameras to get off their high horse, price-wise.
Home birth was excellent. As the son of a doctor, I approached it with consternation, but I’ve come around since. Why go to a hospital if you’re not sick?
It’s like going to a feed lot.
We used a midwife, which, unfortunately, is alegal in Virginia. My father helped midwives attain legal status in Arkansas. Hopefully, that will happen in VA sometime. However, VA still has representatives who do stuff like introduce legislation requiring any woman who has a miscarriage to notify police. WTF? Luckily, it didn’t go forward. What a bunch of assholes! Old white men should butt right the fuck out of issues like this.
Congratulations on the new kid!
Congratulations!!!
Sorry about my mini-rant. It’s just that things are set up against women who want to give birth naturally, at home. My insurance only pays for births in the hospital with a doctor. People looked at me like :dubious: or :eek: or 
when I told them we were having the baby at home, when I told them my wife isn’t having an epidural or Pitocin (or “scheduling” the delivery"). Crap, we’ve only been doing it that way for about 50-60 years; folks have been homebirthing naturally since, well at least thousands of years ago!
Anyway, back to the light-hearted good cheer! Thanks for your support! :sniff, sniff:: I love you, Man!
Update:
Baby and mom are doing great. I took Janelle to the Pediatrician and everything’s good, although her BANDS was a little high, which means I have to drive her to a lab to get blood drawn tonight in this so-called blizzard. Maybe. I might can do it in the morning. One of the things about homebirth is that all those little tests that you normally get done in the hospital, you have to go to the Dr./Lab and get them done. No biggie, except when the forecast calls for a few inches of snow.
Anyway, AngelicGemma was asking about pics, and a friend came over and took a one today, which I’ve posted here. Hopefully, that works.
Yay! smooches everybody
Congratulations on your beautiful baby!!
All that hair! I hope it won’t just all fall out - I didn’t grow real hair until I was 3, and everybody thought I was a boy so my mom put me in the frilliest dresses with those velcro bows stuck to my head. (They still said “What a handsome little boy!”) Congratulations on your beautiful baby!
Nope. I’m not balding.
Oh, you mean the baby. My first son had hair like that when he was born; it fell out and came back blonde in a few months!
CONGRATS!!! Your seed is powerful! You are the bomb!
Kids are cool. Hard, but cool. What else could you possibly want in life.