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Natural birth in San Diego
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Anyone have experience with the midwives at UCSD, Best Start Birth Center, or a homebirth midwife? I would love to hear about your experiences, good and bad.
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Re: Natural birth in San Diego
loved best start. only complaint was their wait time for appointments so book first a.m. appts if you can. here's a link to my birth story
https://simmworksfamily.blogspot.com/2010/12/molly-claire-birth-story.html
I delivered at UCSD. I went with midwives there the whole way but ended up having to be induced, not being able to use their birth center & ended up having a c-section. So, I can't say much about the birth center but the midwives were great! I love all the women that regularly work at the Perlman location (La Jolla) & the other couple that I had in the hospital were amazing, too. I would highly reccomend them to anyone! In fact, I am going with them again for this LO.
I am planning on giving birth at the UCSD birth center, and am getting my prenatal care from the midwives. I'm also taking most of my prenatal classes there. This is my first child, so I can only speak for my experience so far. I feel very happy about everyone I have worked with so far overall. People are very much in line with my own philosophy and I feel very comfortable with the quality of care.
I did have one bad experience at my last appointment when I head one of the midwives complaining about another patient, and it made me very uncomfortable. But I think that may have been a personality thing with a midwife who is, overall, a great care provider, mixed with the fact that I was feeling hormonal/emotional that day.
I went through UCSD Midwives (the hillcrest location), and delivered in the Labor & Delivery at UCSD hospital (the birthing center was actually full the night I delivered, which is really rare) last summer. I still had a midwife attend/deliver. They were very conscientious of the fact that I was a birth center patient, offered doula services, a shower, almost everything they would have done in the birth center. They even offered to switch me to the birth center as soon as a room became available, but I was comfortable in L&D since I still had the midwife and not an ob/gyn or physician.
I would definitely recommend the midwives at UCSD. The midwives waiting room/offices may not be the best looking compared to a 'nice' ob/gyn, but the midwives are top-notch.
UCSD also has a 'meet the midwives' event (the next one looks like it's July 25th) which is a good event to go to if you want to get a feel for the midwives or if you have questions.
No, you do not pick one MW, you rotate between them all. And, each MW works at 1 primarary location & does a rotation through the hospital. So there are more MWs that you have a chance of delivering your LO than just the ones you see for all your prenatal care. That's why the Meet the MWs is such a good thing to go to, ALL of the MWs are there, they all talk & you can get a sense of what they are all about.
When I had DS, I never saw any of my regular MWs at the hospital but the ones I saw were GREAT!