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At home or hospital

Both giving birth at home and giving birth in the hospital have advantages and disadvantages. We think it’s important that you give birth where you feel safe and relaxed. After all, we know that relaxation ensures optimal contractions and thus a greater chance of a successful delivery.

Always consider both options, though. Sometimes a labor suddenly goes so fast that we cannot go to the hospital, and sometimes complications arise during labor that make a home birth unjustifiable. In that case, we have to move to the hospital.

1Giving birth at home
  • Giving birth in your own environment often gives you a sense of greater freedom. You are yourself at home and feel less inhibited.
  • If emergencies arise, we have all the resources and training to provide first aid to both mother and baby.
  • If complications occur, it is usually in the early stages of labor and we can use our own transportation to the hospital. In a late stage or emergency, you go by ambulance.
  • In case of emergency, we can always go to OLVG East. You will be in the delivery rooms in no more than 30 minutes in an emergency.
  • You cannot get medicated pain relief at home.
  • Research shows that giving birth at home is just as safe as giving birth in the hospital.
  • If you want to give birth in the bath at home, you can rent a birthing pool for this purpose.
  • The maternity nurse assists us during labor and then stays with you until everything goes well.
2Outpatient delivery
  • You always start your labor at home. We will go to the hospital with you if we expect the baby to be born within a few hours.
  • In case of complications, you do not need to be moved at a late stage of labor, after all, you are already in the hospital.
  • In an uncomplicated delivery without painkillers, we will supervise your delivery. A nurse or maternity nurse from the hospital will come to assist us with the delivery.
  • At night and on weekends, specialists (gynecologist, pediatrician, anesthesiologist) are not always in the hospital, they sometimes have to come from home.
  • It may be that the hospital of your choice is full. If this is the case, we will have to move to another hospital. Our partnership with OLVG Oost does not guarantee that you can give birth there.
  • At OLVG East and Birthing Center West, provided you do not have a medical indication, you can give birth in the bath.
  • If the delivery goes without major complications, you will go home the same day.
  • If you give birth on an outpatient basis, you have a co-payment of about 350 euros. You will be sent the hospital invoice at home afterwards.
  • Some supplemental health insurance plans cover this co-payment.
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3Medical indication
  • If your medical indication has already arisen during pregnancy, call the hospital directly at the beginning of your delivery.
  • If your pregnancy has been with us, but you need to be induced then you report yourself on the agreed date and time and the hospital will start the delivery with you.
  • A medical indication can also arise during childbirth, we then transfer care to the hospital. If you are still at home, this means you have to go to the hospital. We always go with you to transfer care.
  • Transportation to the hospital (ambulance or private transport) depends on the urgency and stage of delivery.
  • A request for pain relief is also a medical indication. So this means that we transfer your delivery to the hospital.

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