Who is the ideal candidate for a home birth? I often get inquiries from families who want to know if they can safely birth at home. Often they’ve been led to believe their pregnancies are “high risk” because they are over 35, they’re overweight, they’ve had a prior cesarean, they weren’t supposed to be able to get pregnant in the first place, it is an IVF pregnancy, they had a previous pregnancy complication, a doctor once told them they are too small to give birth, etc. Whil