During my first pregnancy, at the 30-week ultrasound they couldn’t properly measure the baby’s head.

There was talk of doing an amniocentesis to see if he didn’t have a syndrome.

I could still terminate the pregnancy if something was wrong.

I was very shocked that this was still possible in Belgium.

The gynecologists tried to convince me not to have a home birth, so that they would have everything under control.

I gave birth at home to a healthy baby, with a head that wasn’t too small at all.

3 days after the birth they said my baby looked a bit yellow.

That evening we had to rush to the hospital.

After ten days in the hospital full of tests and miscommunication, we were told we could finally go home because his values had dropped.

Only after several months and many doctor/hospital visits did we get a phone call telling us they hadn’t found anything in all the tests.

And that there was nothing wrong.

This made me realize that doctors often don’t know for sure either and sometimes just do things to avoid uncertainty.

But our instincts had already told us that nothing was wrong.