Jodi Hillebrand

So I made the choice.

I had all out of hospital births.

My first was born in a birth center.

My last two were born at home.

Wow.

All of them with midwives.

Wow.

So midwives are practiced in what they call normal birth, which is 95% of births go very normally.

There's 5% that need intervention.

Sure.

So a midwife, if you have a midwife, she's going to know what's normal and what's looking normal and how things are progressing.

And then she's going to know when things are going a little bit sideways and maybe that...

you need to transport and finish delivering the baby in the hospital.

There are options, and unfortunately, a lot of women are not aware of all the options.

You do what you know, and what we know now is going into the hospital, and women who want to have a natural or unmedicated birth, it's difficult to do in a hospital.

So if you want that, then be prepared to advocate.

And if you're like, nope.

No thanks.

You know, you're going to have the birth experience that you want.

I don't think that there is a stigma so much as there is a lack of awareness.