It was really I just couldn’t see any reason why I needed to go to hospital and it was just the confidence that my own body would be able to do it. And that from what I understood very quickly about home births that the midwife would be there and if anything went wrong it tended to go wrong slowly and they would get me to hospital. […] It wasn’t because I felt that [large hospital] wouldn’t have been a particularly good hospital.
Other women chose not to have a home birth due to safety concerns (either their own or those of health care professionals). For instance, one woman stated that she preferred to deliver in a location with access to a range of care in case of complications: