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Home Birth

A resource for home birth questions, stories, advice and info

11k subscribers76 posts / mo in Sep 202673 authors / mosince 2010

r/homebirth has 11k members (+27% over the last 12 months). It gets about 76 posts a month from 73 people. Top topics: Baby & Birth Stories, Birth Experience & Issues and NurseThanksGifts.

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Size and growth

How r/homebirth has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+27%in 12 months · +4.5% in 3 months · +0.9% in 1 month
Oct 202611k
Growing11k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+23%vs Sep 2025 · +4.0% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202676
BusierPeaked at 97 in Oct 2024
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/homebirth

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Baby & Birth Stories0.7%
  2. Birth Experience & Issues0.6%
  3. NurseThanksGifts0.2%
  4. Birth and Delivery Options0.1%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Spotify
  2. Evidence Based Birth
  3. Apple
  4. Spinning Babies
  5. Qualtrics

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research