What made you decide to choose your doctor or midwife? Did you have a process for interviewing or did you pick the first one you talked to?
Our number one priority was finding a hospital that had a level 3 NICU. After that I picked an OB within that hospital. We almost needed that NICU so we know our choice was the best for us.
I chose to stay with my family doctor during both pregnancies, he is awesome and has no problems attending home births and breech natural births, i can chose to go to a midwife or other family doctor (low risk women don't use OB's here) but there is only one midwife on the island currently and i don't like the woman, she is a good midwife but our personalities clash.
I loved staying with my family doctor, our kids and my husband also go to him, its very nice to have one caregiver that knows our whole family.
Throughout the world, there exists a group of women who feel mightily drawn to giving care to women in childbirth. At the same time maternal and independent, responsive to a mother's needs, yet accepting full responsibility as her attendant; such women are natural midwives. Without the presence and acceptance of the midwife, obstetrics becomes aggressive, technical, and inhuman.
Professor G.J. Kloosterman, Chief of OB/GYN, Univ. of
the doc i had with my first SUCKED, so i switched to a dif one.....didnt care for him much but i wasnt preg so didnt matter...then i did get pregnant and the doctor that i actually wanted to begin with, was accepting new patients so i switched to her RIGHT away. i had seen her once when my doc was too busy that day...and my friend had her with her first dd and i knew she was great. so far, no problems! :) i love her sooo much! lol
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My midwife was pretty much the first person I got and talked to.. I called the office to make an apt w/someone (I believe it was an actual OBGYN) but they couldn't see me for 3mo b/c they were SO booked and Gail (my midwife) could see me in 1mo, so I chose her.. Once I met her, I decided to stick w/her b/c she was VERY nice and personable and made me feel at ease w/her.
I chose a midwife because I wanted a higher quality of emotionl care as well as quality prenatal care. I never want to be rushed through appointments and wanted someone who limits the number of women who are due in the same month to ensure they would be there when I deliver. Not only that, but I want someone who will be in the room with me throughout the entire labor and delivery. I don't want people walking in and out every 15 minutes.
I interviewed several midwives and narrowed it down to the few who can deliver at the birth center. From there, I picked 3 that work in the birth center.
Oh, and natural birth with no interventions is the most important thing to me. When I labor, I want to focus on labor and not repeatedly telling doctors and nurses that I do not want their procedures.
Long story short(ish)...
Last time I wanted a midwife but didn't think we could afford it. I was still pretty new here & didn't know much about where anything was. I looked up midwives on the off chance and couldn't get ahold of the group I tried. We ended up calling a hotline & got the name of this clinic & Ob... she was high risk though ans since I wasn't I got transferred over to another dr. He was awful & I should have changed again, but I didn't was uncomfortable doing so at that point... I stuck with him and while I learned a lot from the experience, uggh it was bad lol.
About a week before she was born I got back online, panicking honestly... and found the Birth Center... I researched it several times between then and when we finally made an appointment for an interview a few months before we started TTC. Unfortunately the owner got married and moved like a month after I started going there lol, but I really like the new owner too and not upset in the least about the situation. I've liked every midwife there I've met so far. Still have one to go though lol.
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I wanted to go with a midwife but the only one who serves my area is going to be out on maternity leave when I am due. So she gave me the name of an OB who will do VBACs and that's who I'm going with!
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- sissychristi
on Dec. 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM