Katie: Two Positive Births, Planned Home Birth and Before Arrival, Independent Midwife, PCOS, Covid, Second Unplanned Freebirth In Bath

British Birthing Stories · Jan 29, 2026 · 1h 17m

She was a midwife. She knew the system inside out. And she still couldn't get the care she actually wanted.

Katie is an independent midwife now based in Cornwall who shares two home births that could not have been more different. Her first was a planned Halloween home birth during COVID, with a private midwife who looked her in the eyes at 37 weeks and told her she could do this. Her second moved so fast that her daughter arrived before the midwives did, born in the bath with meconium in the waters and only her husband and mum there to catch her.

In this episode we talk about:

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