Give Birth on Your Own Turf
Deciding where your baby will be born can have a lasting impact that reaches far beyond the experience of a single day. For Ginny Yurich’s family, a home birth changed the trajectory of their lives. Recently, they moved to a 14-acre farm, where they tend ducks and chickens, and have plans to add more livestock and a garden. Ginny also maintains a blog, www.1000HoursOutside.com, where she encourages parents to provide the ample outdoor time necessary for kids’ optimal emotional and physical health. These new ventures directly resulted from her decision to give birth to her third child in the peace and comfort of her own home.
Ginny is part of a small but growing trend toward home birth. The numbers of planned out-of-hospital births dwindled to almost nothing in the middle of the 20th century, and then rose slightly in
