Anyone in the SF Bay area?

Lesleyjking

Where do (or did you) deliver, and your experience?

We live in the East Bay now but I love my dr at CPMC, I tried a dr in Walnut Creek but am not a fan. Am I silly to keep my dr in SF?

kittylove

Hi and welcome to the board. I don't think SF is too far for dr appt but if you go into labor at 6 am, I would not want to be in the car in stop and go traffic while in labor. That would be my big concern.

pink.dutch.tulips

Lesleyjking:

Where do (or did you) deliver, and your experience?

We live in the East Bay now but I love my dr at CPMC, I tried a dr in Walnut Creek but am not a fan. Am I silly to keep my dr in SF?

i delivered at JMMC in WC .. i loved it.

you're not silly for wanting to keep your SF ob at all .. what i would do is see if they have hospital privileges at any east bay hospitals so you don't have to travel far for a hospital and its far easier for an ob to travel across the bridge for that reason that a pg lady.

that said, i was the crazy pg lady who worked in marin and lived in east bay (hospital and ob in WC - Christine Riley FANTASTIC doc btw) and people were nervous about me and my hr+ commute. i figured worst case scenario, i get a CHP escort to the hospital :P i ended up working until the day i was induced - l/d at work 7/13 and the next afternoon i was holding my lil girl.

Nocalwife

Depends like the ladies said above see if they can have priviledges in east bay hospitals and if they are ok with that.  I have Kaiser and love my ob in wc.

Celyn

I was living in Brentwood when I delivered at Stanford.  It was 75 miles and we did it in rush hour.  That part was fine.  I didn't repeat that again and delivered at ValleyCare in Pleasanton the second time.  If you love CPMC and want to stay with that, go for it.  I switched because I didn't like the experience at Stanford and found a doc at VC that I loved.