Delphine Schiltz 9:20 a.m., October 29, 2022

Home birth is becoming a trend.

If home birth represents only 1% of births in France, the professional association for accompanied home birth ensures that the number of families concerned has doubled in four years.

How to explain this desire of women to give birth at home? 

Home birth is on the rise.

For some, it's a fad, for others a return to nature.

And for Marie, a mother of three, the trigger was some form of abuse in the hospital.

“I started shaking when I went to the maternity ward”

"I was not informed of anything. I was a bit like a puppet in this story and it was forceps and episiotomy. A bit violent way, and I admit that it traumatized me. For my second pregnancy, when I wanted to score in the maternity ward, I realized that I was shaking and crying. I'm not going to go back, "she says on Europe 1.

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Women without pathology

More and more women are turning to home birth, but not all have access to it.

The follow-up rules are very strict.

Florian is a liberal midwife.

"We will rather take babies who come upside down. We will avoid taking twins because we do not have the means to accompany them at home. And then, we will be with women who do not present no pathology, such as diabetes on insulin, hypertension, morbid obesity", she explains on Europe 1.

Hospital registration is mandatory.

A little over 10% of women are transferred there during their work, only 2% in an emergency.

But it is these 2% that tense the hospital staff, already under tension.