I've been speaking with a doula that I am hiring to help out with my hospital birth. Since we aren't moving to the area until my third trimester she's giving me recommendations on caregiver and where to birth. If you remember my other posts, I have three hospitals to choose from: 2 large hospitals and then one smaller one. I was discouraged from birthing at the smaller hospital by my family because they don't do a lot of births, BUT the doula is highly recommending it. I was unsure about the hospital myself as they only have one OB that works there (and then two others that are "on call") which seemed like not enough, but I have now figured out why! Apparently, at that hospital, you do NOT see an OB regularly. They don't have midwifes, but family doctors will be the one you go to see and be treated by through prenatal care and the birth unless the OB is needed.
So, that's my other option I wasn't really aware of. This hospital birth center was actually the mastermind of the family doctors at this hospital. It's all set up so you can see the same doctor pre-pregnancy, during your pregnancy, and then they can see both you and the baby after your pregnancy.
Would you personally choose a family doctor over and OB if a midwife were not an option? I am really leaning toward this option and have been really leaning toward this hospital the whole time even with the discouragement from my family.
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Re: Another Caregiver Option
I did choose a family doctor. I love her. She was at my last birth, and I'm very happy to be with her again. She attends most of her patients births herself - because it's a small part of her practise, she can do that without getting burned out.
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B born 7/15/13, C born 3/2/15, #3 on the way May '17
I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I’ve been up linked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond! I’m new wave, but I’m old school and my inner child is outward bound. I’m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive and from time to time I’m radioactive.
B born 7/15/13, C born 3/2/15, #3 on the way May '17
I’m a modern man, a man for the millennium. Digital and smoke free. A diversified multi-cultural, post-modern deconstruction that is anatomically and ecologically incorrect. I’ve been up linked and downloaded, I’ve been inputted and outsourced, I know the upside of downsizing, I know the downside of upgrading. I’m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond! I’m new wave, but I’m old school and my inner child is outward bound. I’m a hot-wired, heat seeking, warm-hearted cool customer, voice activated and bio-degradable. I interface with my database, my database is in cyberspace, so I’m interactive, I’m hyperactive and from time to time I’m radioactive.