CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Nurse midwife Angy Nixon hugged her way around a recent meeting of home-birth advocates and moms. She admired the healthy babies held by their beaming mothers and exclaimed over how much they'd changed since she last saw them at their birth.
She shares an intimate bond with these women, who trusted her with their pregnancies and the deliveries of their babies, most of them in their own homes. Since 2003, Nixon's midwifery practice has been mostly home deliveries. She spent her first five years as a midwife delivering babies in a birth center.
"Women choose home births for a variety of reasons," she said, listing the reasons in no particular order. "Some want to save money. They expect the birth to be normal and are not afraid. They appreciate the privacy of their own homes. They control who's in the room."
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