‘I chose a home birth in the US – good on Meghan for doing the same’ When my first child arrived, I was living in Kansas, where hospital birthing plans (and costs) can be surprising Lucy Denyer opted for a home birth when she lived in Kansas California is a very different place from Kansas. Nevertheless, I imagine there are some similarities between the two when it comes to having a home birth. Doubtless the Californian version – apparently soon to be experienced, plans permitting, by the Duchess of Sussex – will be a little more, well, Californian than what I experienced in America’s most central state a decade ago.