Pediatrician Supports Home Birth

Almost a year and a half ago, I shared the incredible story of getting to midwife my grand-baby Ariadne's birth. The most amazing aspect was the deepening of my bond with my daughter-in-law Sylvia Romm, and my son Iyah. Sylvia has a Master's Degree in Public Health from Harvard, is a senior pediatrics resident at Harvard, and chose to have her daughter at home. This was a radical, yet carefully considered decision based on her interface with the medical community for prenatal care, and inaccurate test results leading her to question birth in a conventional medical setting. While I made every effort not to influence her decision about birth place at all, she ultimately decided home was where she felt most confident for her birth. In this interview Sylvia shares her decision to have a home birth with us, and we discuss the recent American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement in support of home birth..