Coming home to a homebirth
chase · Sun, Aug 16, 2015When we arrived home from the hospital and saw the tub where we might have breathed our way through more surges, and the cartons of eggs our midwife might have cooked for a big post-birth breakfast, and the bed where she might have tucked us in with our new baby; when I emptied the tub, and we put away our table of unused birth supplies, and laid the baby down in the second bassinet and on third bed she had ever touched; when Sophie failed to notice our tiny new flatmate because she was too excited to finally see us again — I have to admit, I felt a loss.