Would never ever consider it.
I can't understand why anyone would . I've read people's reasons for choosing a HB on lots of threads on here but it still wouldn't convince me. They are all valid reasons why it is a good thing, but surely the safety of your baby is more important than any of that.
As working hard says, it's just one little day, but the wrong choice could change your and your baby's life forever.
I can't understand people's thing about intervention. If you don't want any intervention you just say so. You can tell them you don't want any examinations, monitors , drugs etc. if you saw the midwives programme the other night the woman on there had absolutely nothing- hadn't even had any scans and was very definite about no drugs etc. they don't make you do anything you don't want.
I feel extremely fortunate that W was born very healthy, but we did have to go to the neo natal unit for her to have a heart scan and I will always remember going past all the tiny incubators and seeing lots of worried parents looking helplessly at their babies, and me feeling so grateful that wasn't me and knowing that those parents were thinking they would literally do absolutely anything to have their child be strong and well but there was nothing they could do but wait days/weeks/months to see if it would happen. So if you are lucky to have had a healthy pregnancy, carried to term etc, why then risk it at the very end?
Why drink no alcohol, caffeine etc,avoid unpasteurised cheese, raw seafood, lifting heavy weights, climbing ladders, etc etc the list goes on of all the things we avoid doing in pregnancy even though older generations insist they didn't do half of it and their babies were fine, but we follow it all to the letter so we know we have done everything we can to keep our baby safe and healthy, then at the end choose to give birth without hospital facilities and expert staff? Makes absolutely no sense to me!!