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08/06/2025

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07/25/2025

If this doesn't show why moms are choosing out of hospital birth I'm not sure I can explain it better.

🏡 Home Birth: Safer Than You Might Think

For decades, the focus has been on questioning the safety of home birth.

But maybe it’s time we start asking a different question:
Is a hospital birth always the safest option?

Research continues to show that unnecessary interventions are more common in hospitals, while planned home births with the continuous care of a known midwife are often linked to better outcomes for both mother and baby.

An Australian study of 1.25 million births found that women who planned a home birth were almost six times more likely to have a normal vaginal birth.

A 15-year Victorian study of more than 850,000 births showed lower rates of birth trauma and fewer interventions among women who gave birth at home.

National data also shows that home births had the highest rates of physiological vaginal birth and the lowest rates of caesarean, epidural, episiotomy and postpartum haemorrhage.

These aren’t just numbers — they represent real women, real families, and real choices.

At The Thompson Method, we believe the place of birth matters, but the people supporting you matter even more.

Continuity of care with a midwife who knows you, respects you and walks with you every step of the way is one of the most powerful ways to reduce risk and protect your birth and breastfeeding experience.

Of course, there are times when medical support is necessary. That’s why respectful, collaborative care between midwives and doctors is essential — no matter where you choose to birth.

So if hospital birth is assumed to be the safest option…
Why are so many women still experiencing avoidable trauma and unnecessary intervention?

Let’s open the conversation.
Did you choose a home birth or a hospital birth?
How did that decision shape your experience?

With education and support, more women can make informed choices and experience the kind of birth they deserve.

07/16/2025

Holy war!

🩸 Did you ever wonder why midwives are called criminal in the land of their grandmothers?
Why women are told birth is “too risky” without a license from men who’ve never bled?
Why catching babies in your hands is punishable, while cutting them from the womb is praised?
It’s not just regulation.
It’s not just oversight.
It’s a war on the design.

👁️ They say it’s for safety—but the numbers say otherwise.
They say it’s for the mother—but mothers say they were never heard.
They say it’s for the baby—but the cord is cut early, the breath is forced, the moment is stolen.
This is not protection.
It is control dressed in sterile robes.

📜 “But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the male children alive.”
Exodus 1:17.
Shiphrah. Puah.
They stood in the face of genocide, not for fame, not for gold—but because they feared God, not Pharaoh.

And today? The decrees still come down from high.
"Do not attend without a permit."
"Report your sisters."
"Say nothing when they are dragged into court."
But we remember.
And we refuse.
🔗 We stand when told to kneel.
🛑 We speak when told to be quiet.
🤲 We catch life even when threatened with cages.

Midwives in Hungary. Shackled.
In South Africa. Charged.
In Pennsylvania. Investigated.
In New York. Erased from history.
In Australia. Jailed for attending what the mother chose.

Licensed or not, the threat is the same—because it’s not about safety.
It’s about sovereignty.

A woman, laboring in power, is dangerous to the powers. A baby born into peace instead of panic threatens the principalities.
And a midwife who says, “I answer to God, not your decree,” is their greatest fear.

Because we do not serve the gods of liability, nor the idols of compliance.
We do not offer incense to the state to be allowed to do what God has already called us to do.

So why do we fight?
Because birth is holy.
Because mothers are not property.
Because babies are not state commodities.
Because legacy matters more than law.
Because we were called for such a time as this.
We fear the Lord.

This is not soft work. This is a Holy war.

07/10/2025

Hear me out before you eye-roll… this is from the Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2023 paper comparing homebirth to hospital birth.

In the article they explain that homebirth is not the ‘intervention’ that needs researching, in fact the move into hospital birth for all women is the experimental intervention that requires review.

Archie Cochrane awarded ‘the wooden spoon’ to obstetrics in 1989 because ‘the speciality missed its first opportunity in the sixties, when it failed to randomise the confinement of low-risk women at home or hospital… then having filled the emptying beds by getting nearly all pregnant women into hospital, the obstetrician started to introduce a whole series of expensive innovations without any rigorous evaluation’

Don’t shoot me, I’m just the messenger, it’s not my fault that hospital birth became the norm without rigorous evaluation…

I’ll discuss this more on ep.160 of podcast ‘Is homebirth a good option for you’