# Who are the born at home dopers? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 21, 2003, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479 "2003-11-21T11:19:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/1 "2003-11-21T11:19:18Z")
Us homies have to stick together. I’m 29 by the way. Spent most of the first 8 years of my life within a hundred feet of where I came into this world. Which was this little green shack my dad threw together so my mom wouldn’t have to give birth in a tent. They were living in a tent because the house they were building was still just a frame. I was just a few months too early for that. P.S. We need a good name to call those hospital born babies. The best I could come up with was medicanos. But that doesn’t make much since. It sounds like that’s what you should be calling the doctors. P.P.S. I’d also like to hear if you were born somewhere that was neither home nor a hopital. Regale us. ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/2 "2003-11-21T15:54:56Z")
**stormchaser** was born in a car on the way to a hospital in Guam. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/3 "2003-11-21T16:18:09Z")
:smack: Sorry - I misread the thread title as “Born at Home Depot!” 😕 I just came in to see what the hell this was all about. I’ll be moving along now… ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/4 "2003-11-21T16:50:46Z")
My niece was born on the way to the hospital. I also read it as Born at Home depot… wonder what that means?-Lil ---
**Author:** ![Hedda\_Rosa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hedda_rosa/32/1204_2.png) [@Hedda\_Rosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hedda_Rosa)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/5 "2003-11-21T17:37:35Z")
I have a friend who both conceived and 9 months later gave birth to her second son in the backseat of her car. She gets no end of teasing about that. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/6 "2003-11-21T18:47:33Z")
Well, my Mom was born at home, but she’s not a Doper. So STFU, Cranky. Thanks, I will. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/7 "2003-11-21T18:58:57Z")
I’m Dutch, and it is very common for Dutch women to give birth at home. The GP and/or a midwife assists. So I was born in the bedroom of my parents house, the same house I lived in for my first 18 years. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/8 "2003-11-21T19:40:46Z")
I was born at home in Buckland Avenue, Slough, Berkshire, UK ---
**Author:** ![Loneraven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c0e974/32.png) [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/9 "2003-11-21T20:58:26Z")
Well, I was born in a hospital, but my family were living on hospital premises at the time. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![bafaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bafaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bafaa)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/10 "2003-11-21T21:42:32Z")
I was born in my parents bedroom in Spain. My sister was born in our grandparents house. ---
**Author:** ![carlotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/11 "2003-11-22T04:04:43Z")
My brother was born at home with a midwife in attendance. (Washington DC suburbs, late 70s). It was, I think, a wonderful experience for my parents, but fairly embarrassing and frightening for me at 10. I ended up hiding in my room. ---
**Author:** ![Nvme77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nvme77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nvme77)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/12 "2003-11-22T05:18:36Z")
Name for those born in hospitals: germophobes or ---
**Author:** ![Nvme77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@Nvme77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nvme77)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/13 "2003-11-22T05:23:39Z")
Pups of panicky parents or forcep freaks or caesarian suckers or breech brothers or encephalidiots ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/14 "2003-11-22T08:42:18Z")
Whoa. Didn’t realize how many “almost made it” babies there were. Hmmm, none of those names really seems to point at the babies themselves **Nvme77**. Methinks those are a little too mean as well. ---
**Author:** ![hyperjes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@hyperjes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperjes)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/15 "2003-11-22T12:26:16Z")
I was born in a hospital, but- If “born at home” folk are going to be called “homies,” then perhaps those of us born in medical facilities could be termed “hospies?” (Now, if you’re looking for a _interesting_ birth story, I can help you. I was born in 1977, on the day of the Johnstown Flood. My uncle was living in Johnstown, PA at the time. My mom’s family had the phone lines so tied up by trying to check on him that she couldn’t get through to anyone to tell them I’d arrived. In addition to that, the delivery room caught fire just moments after I was born. I was born at midnight, on the dot. And I had “milk teeth.” My mother was understandably freaked out. This is all true- I couldn’t make this shit up. Despite my extremely strange beginnnings, I’ve turned out relatively “normal.”) Now back to your regularly scheduled thread… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pelleas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e8c25b/32.png) [@Pelleas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pelleas)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/16 "2003-11-22T19:19:04Z")
I was born at home but I don’t suppose it was all that unusual in the 1930’s. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/17 "2003-11-22T21:48:53Z")
Both of my kids were born at home, same midwife for both. The first was born in an apartment; the second was born about eight feet from where I sit, over my right shoulder. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2003, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/18 "2003-11-23T01:50:43Z")
My third was born at home, unintentionally. I was getting the older two ready to go to the sitters in between contractions, whilst **Bluesman** was in the shower, having been hurriedly called in from a three-day field exercise. When I squatted down to tie my daughter’s shoe, I knew we weren’t making it to the hospital. **Bluesman** called the ambulance, then hustled the kids next door. The ambulance was dispatched from the base hospital with a doctor on board, who came bounding up the stairs just in time to snap on a glove and catch the baby’s head. We don’t live in the house anymore, but I do still have the comforter! ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/19 "2003-11-23T06:35:21Z")
I was born at home. ---
**Author:** ![Finnie\_the\_Pooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@Finnie\_the\_Pooh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finnie_the_Pooh)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479/20 "2003-11-23T15:57:06Z")
Born at home in a sauna in Finland in 1950. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-born-at-home-dopers/214479.md?page=2)