She has probably paid the biggest price for her choice. Nothing anyone else says will be more severe than the loss of her baby.

The idea of an unassisted home birth sounds good and some people have no worries but you can never tell when something unfortunate may occur. I could never take that risk personally and wanted anything and anyone I might require on hand..

How devastating to loose her baby.

Sorry Journey Moon lost her life in this a high price !
I agree with the mum that it’s the woman’s right to choose the best birthing option for her. Just hope and pray women can ask for help when they need it. Yes, we as women are capable of birth indeed, but no we aren’t medical professionals who can determine if dangerous complications occur.

Really sad ending

Surely the Mother should have known that the baby should be born within 24 hours. How could she not know that there was definitely not issues. I reckon the Mother is fortunate that she survived too. The baby would also have gone in to foetal distress after all that time too. If her bladder was damaged she may have ruined her chances of having another baby.

How devastating. Not something I would do, but at least she isn’t afraid to try for another. Hopefully next time she seeks help sooner rather than wait 3 days

Yes, by all means women need choice. But having an untreated UTI? Should not be a choice. Labouring for days without progress? Should not be a choice. She should have at the very least called the hospital or her doctor after a day of active labour.
It’s sad she has to defend herself when mourning and I feel sorry for the loss that her and the father must feel.

What a very sad outcome. I am of the opinion she could have still ‘free birthed’ with medical monitoring (not intervention ie no epidural, episiotomy, induction, clean and sweep, etc). Her babies’ condition would have been closely monitored. You never know what might go wrong in child birth, women and babies still die and it doesn’t need to be this way.

Obviously more education is needed about what is safe and what is dangerous and people shouldn’t be able to post what amounts to medical advice if they don’t have medical training. A really sad situation and I hope some of the people telling her to keep going consider more carefully what they say in future.

It was her choice though it would not be mine personally.

What an awful thing to experience!

Oh my. She decided indeed too late to look for medical assistance. She had so much pain and she didn’t do anything for days. So sorry for that little baby who lost his life.

Yes the parents and mother should have a choice but with a choice like this comes some forms of danger and there are some more at risk than others. It’s important to do what’s best for mum and Bub and unfortunately not both pulled through this time.

It’s not something that should be taken lightly and she should have gone to a hospital sooner. Maybe then the baby would have made it. Poor little soul

Good luck and wishing her all the best

How can someone put their wants ahead of what is best for their child I will never understand.

I’m shocked that she wants to try this again. Surely losing one child is enough. Yeah, I’m all for free choice, but this choice is putting people’s lives at risk, that’s never a good thing