Welcome to the Chichester home birth website

Home birth – what does that conjure up for you?

• Is it a relaxed environment and minimal interference in the natural process of birth, or pain relief out of the dark ages and the scary prospect of needing help that isn’t there?
• Do you think of birth as a normal life experience that occasionally throws up a problem, or as a potential medical emergency zone?

For some professionals and some parents, home birth is filled with risk and uncertainty. For others it’s an obvious choice – why would anyone want to go to hospital when they are not ill? And in between are all those who simply feel uncertain. Like hospital birth, home birth has risks and benefits; it’s not for everyone. Some births need the special facilities of a hospital, but research shows definitively that for most women it is as safe to give birth at home as it is in hospital.

So it’s about feeling comfortable and secure, whatever you choose.

Chichester home birth is a small group of women who believe that birth is important and who, on a voluntary basis, work to support choice by providing affordable conferences with well known and respected speakers.