Maybe you’ve seen this PopSugar article in which a mother denounces her homebirth experience. Everyone assured her that she was low risk, but she had a painful, long labour which ended in a floppy oxygen-deprived baby who had to be transferred to a hospital NICU. She ends her article begging, “I do not want to be the poster girl for home birth. Please don't make the same mistake I did.” According to the mom, Ashley Martin, nobody should have a homebirth. She says , bitterly, “I was misled, lied too [sic], and manipulated. Informed consent? Hah. I wish.“ “Worst day of my life is a huge understatement: My baby almost died. I almost died.” I’m so, so sad for this mama. And I am relieved that her baby made it. That he is a spunky 16-month-old today. But, as she says, “just because my son is okay, does NOT mean that my home birth was okay.” Still, I wonder if this is really about homebirth at all. Birth, as normal as it is, and as much as w...