It is not selfish to want satisfaction and a sense of achievement in childbirth. Having a happy birth experience should not be regarded as an exceptional event, a matter of luck or a luxury. In fact, the stress levels of a labouring woman have a direct affect on her baby.
Foetal distress is most commonly the consequence of maternal distress.
There are many reasons which lead women to consider the option of giving birth at home. One is that they themselves regard pregnancy and birth as a normal physiological and family event, rather than a potential medical disaster which is unfortunately, quite a common attitude amongst obstetricians and hospital staff. Some women, never having reason to be in hospital, and not regarding themselves as patients who are ill, see no need to go there to give birth. For other women they have had natural trouble free births in hospital and wish to have subsequent births at home. Others may have had previous hospital births and felt unhappy, disappointed or even angry about their birth experiences.