2nd Trimester

Clicky poll-Prenatal care providers

I am pregnant now, but for 4 years have worked in a clinic as a social worker. Unless you have some compelling high-risk factor (like twins or diabetes), you are seen by a mid-level provider here. Just wondering who people here are going to for prenatal care...[Poll]

Re: Clicky poll-Prenatal care providers

  • I don't think my GP has the resources to do prenatal care.

    Midwives aren't allowed to practice in Alabama.

    So that leaves the OB.

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  • REALLY? That is so interesting...here in IL, there are no (legal) lay midwives but you can certainly be a certified nurse-midwife. I can't believe they don't have them there. I wonder if there are similar barriers in many other states? Thanks for responding.
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  • Only 27 states have legal CPMs - I don't know about CNMs, though.

    https://www.thebigpushformidwives.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/home.stateStatus/index.htm

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    DS2 - Oct 2010 (my VBAC baby!)

  • According to the American College of Nurse-Midwives www.midwife.org:

    CNMs have legal authority to practice in every state, the District of Columbia and most of the US Territories.

     I guess a CPM is a certified professional midwife?

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    I see a Perinatologist aka a High Risk Speicalist.

  • Special Snowflake:I see a Perinatologist aka a High Risk Speicalist. me too :)  
  • I see an Obgyn and a midwife.  Both provide prenatal care and do deliveries.  I saw only a cnm with my first child.
  • OB/GYN.  I wanted to switch to a CNM, but I thought long and hard about it.  I had a very recent LEEP and my OB is monitoring me closely for cervical incompitence.  So I decided to stay with my OB.

    I'm not concerned with who catches my baby.  I'd actually rather it be a CNM.

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     I guess a CPM is a certified professional midwife?

    yeah, lay midwife and CPM are pretty much the same thing, though I think there are different types of lay midwives, or CPM credentials are different state-by-state.

    I was thinking CNMs are legal everywhere, as they've gone to nursing school. thanks for looking it up :).

     

    DS1 - Feb 2008

    DS2 - Oct 2010 (my VBAC baby!)

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