You had your baby where????

LOL I'm just going to wait for someone to come along and accuse you of being racist and bigot. It seems to be a trend lately.

Um, no I would not be comfortable in having any kind of medical procedure in another country.

Millions of babies are born in third world countries every year, that's one of the reasons that they are Third World still!! I have to say that if I could avoid it, I would not want a child born anywhere that there was risk to either mother or baby. But provided that there was no reason why a natural birth could take place then, and with my wife's agreement, I'd be content for her to give birth there. But for preference, western medicine please. Although it didn't happen, after our daughter was born my wife said that she wanted any others to be born in the Cromwell Hospital (very smart) and to be anaethetised with champagne!!

I think if I satsfied myself that the health care was up to par I would be ok having the baby in a country with non western medicine if something went wrong though, I would never forgive myself. Doing that African thing was a pretty strange choice in my book, but she is not a usual person. Fortunatley it worked out fine.

Childbirth isn't a medical procedure. Western medicine has made it so which is why we have such a high rate of c-sections. I am not comfortable giving birth in a US hospital and would never do it again if more children were in my future (which they're not). It's probably safer (assuming the pregnancy was normal and the mother is healthy) to give birth in a tent in Africa than in a US hospital these days if you really include all the negative effects of a hospital birth here.

I had my boys in Ohio, my first daughter in Mississippi and my last one in New Jersey.
I don't think I would be comfortable having a baby in any other country because I am used to the way things are here in the States.

I was wondering the same thing...and no, I wouldn't want to have a baby in any other country not only because of our superior healthcare but also because I would want my children to be born American citizens.

Hey chick,hows it going,hows yer soap buisness doing?
I had both my kids in Scotland,i would not have wanted to have them anywhere else.
Nothing to do with third world countries,medicines & such,more i wanted them to be Scottish,funny how our minds work eh,i guess it was the way we are brought up,who knows

I have had two children, both were home births, with two midwifes being present. The hospital didn't like the idea of a first baby being born at home but I insisted. At 36 pregnancy with my second child the hospital found that he has Spina Bifida. They tried to get me to agree to a hospital birth 20 miles from my home. They didn't want me to have him in the midwife led unit in the hospital 3 miles from my home. I luckily got the home birth I so wanted. My son was taken to the special care baby unit for three weeks. Now is a happy little 14 month old boy.

Angelina tends to have her babies born in whichever country she happens to be in. A twin labor is high risk so I wonder why she didn't have them in the USA, her homeland. Most movie stars wouldn't have their baby born in the developing world. France is a Western country with great health care. Some medical care in Africa is poor, however. In some locations should a serious complication arise there might be death if there wasn't good medical care available. However infection has been present in some hospitals in the UK.

A pregnant lady is not allowed to fly after a stage of pregnancy stipulated by the airline and it would be sooner for multiple births like Angelina, that someone having twins or triplets. My friend is British but she was working in the USA. She came back home for the birth of her second child because of the high cost of medical care in the States. Angelina has lots of money so she just has a birth where ever it is convenient. Personally I would only have my baby born where English is spoken and conditions are clean.

My aunt was born in Paris, France, but she lived here all of her life. I was always wondering what it would be like to be born somewhere far away, but to tell you the truth, it is not practical. I have to pay more to get my and my son's birth certificate, just because we were born in another country.
I am satisfied with the health care we have here, probably it's not the role model, and it's not updated in every facility and every medical branch, but it's available to everyone, and that is what is important.
To be honest, I am sceptical towards some countries health care conditions, I doubt I will trust them to perform any kind of major medical procedure on me.
It's not racist issue, it's just that I am used to our medical care system, and I have doubts towards some others.

Yeah, I found it interesting that Angelina had her twin babies in France. I think she had a scheduled c-section, so if so it was planned and she really could have had the babies anywhere. It kind of bothers me when American celebrities do stuff like that. Having her first baby in Africa was even more odd to me. I don't get it.
Not worth the risks to me.