Multiples
Perinatologist?
My current doctor is in family practice and is one of 4 doc's who deal with maternity and delivery at her office and she does have experience with twins. ?and I felt very comfortable with her until we found out it was twins. ?I was already feeling like I needed a new doc, an OB who has experience with twins. ?We literally have one perinatologist in the are that we live in, and I will actually be at their office this week for my NT scan. ?When I scheduled the scan I asked if they were taking new patients and they said only be referral. ?Is that common? ?Do you have a perinatologist? ?Or do you have an OB? ?I have found an OB and made an appt. for next week and will be telling the doc who is covering for my doc that I want to switch (my doc is out of the country). ?Curious what you did and who you see and do you think it's necessary to go to a perinatologist or stay with an OB. ?I am assuming that no one stayed with a GP? ?TIA
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Re: Perinatologist?
My OB is not a peri. She is just a regular OB who delivers at a hospital with a Level 3 NICU. She was in a practice with a RE for a long time and has multiples experience. I am totally comfortable with her.
EDIT: She sends me to the high risk unit of our hospital for ultrasounds/AFI/NSTs. I do not get the same care as a regular singleton pregnancy.
*Siggy Warning*
About me 2007: Started TTC. 2008: OB prescribed clomid, went to RE and was Dx with PCOS. 2009: IUI #1 w/follitsim and trigger = BFP. B/G Twins born at 33 weeks. 2012: TTC #3, Round 2 of Letrozole w/TI = BFP, missed m/c at 8 1/2 wks. Currently on the bench as we make plans for a new home. Anxious to start TTC #3 within the next year!
I got lucky and when we went to the peri for our NT scan, he requested to continue seeing us.
Had he not done this, I would have requested a referral from my OB. He has 'experience' with twins, but the level of monitoring is just so much more with the peri.
I see a midwife and a peri who at this point is ultrasounding us once a month. The midwife has experience with twins. And if anything starts going south the peri will catch it. The midwife says she automatically sends her twins to a peri as well.
I'm not sure where I'm delivering. I have my choice of 2 hospitals. One has the Level 3 NICU which obviously we will use if there are any suspected problems or they come early. The other is more of a birth center inside a hospital. They have the labor tubs that I desperately want. I'll have to deliver in the c-section room either way but I'd rather be comfortable if the little guys seem to be doing well.
I didn't see a peri until I was admitted to the hospital and put on bedrest for PTL during the 26th week. Everything was "normal" up until that point - I was just seeing my OB more frequently than someone with a singleton pregnancy. He is part of a large practice that deals with twins on a regular basis.
I don't think that going to a peri sooner would've made any difference in my own situation, but I know that some people are more comfortable with regularly seeing someone who is more used to high risk pregnancies.