Laura: Second Birth, Planned NHS Home Birth, Hyperthyroidism, Unstable Lie, Breech Baby & Hospital Transfer for Postpartum Haemorrhage

British Birthing Stories · Mar 19, 2026 · 41m

Today I welcomed Laura back to the pod to share her second birth. After her first daughter was born by forceps following a long hospital induction, Laura wanted this one to feel completely different. She signed up with the NHS home birth team in Hackney and found her doula, Martha, through The Doula Club.

Then her baby kept moving. In the third trimester she was breech, then head down by the morning of her ECV, then transverse at 38 weeks, when one obstetrician told her she needed a C section now. Laura asked to see another, chose to wait, and had an ECV that turned her baby for a moment…