Hospital/prenatal care recommendations?

Re: Hospital/prenatal care recommendations?

• blueLu25

  August 2011

  I had both my kids at Puget Sound Birth Center with midwives. Amazing experience! Let me know if you have any questions, but it was the perfect environment for me since I wanted to go natural and have a water birth. 

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• Kathzoo

  August 2011

  I gave birth at PSBC as well. With Fremont Midwifery. Amazing experience if you want to go the LM route.

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• NicoleD0516 member

  August 2011

  I'm with Swedish MW Care and they're great! I'm in the Centering Pregnancy group which I love. I'll be giving birth there as well.
  

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• outlandartist

  August 2011

  I recommend Evergreen Hospital in Kirkland. I was really happy with my birth experience there. I had an OB but they have a couple midwife groups there, too.

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• WatchPot

  August 2011

  where do you live/work?  Does location matter to you?

  BIG Brother born 10/19/07 little Brother born 1/31/12

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• FionaCM

  August 2011

  Thanks for all the responses! I live and work in Seattle, so would prefer to stick around here if possible. That being said...I'd be willing to go to the Eastside if I knew the experience was going to be a lot better.

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• LifesPeachy member

  August 2011

  blueLu25:

  I had both my kids at Puget Sound Birth Center with midwives. Amazing experience! Let me know if you have any questions, but it was the perfect environment for me since I wanted to go natural and have a water birth. 

  I gave birth to G here too- loved it! It was amazing.. I was seeing the Swedish Ballard midwives for a couple months and while they were nice (much more so than OBs I saw at the start of my pregnancy, had with DD1, and worked with as an LD RN). I still felt like I was getting a hospital birth experience and it wasn't what I wanted. I didn't feel reassured enough that they would help me to get the birth experience I wanted (still was in a hospital, still had to have an IV lock, weren't going to let me eat/drink as I thought I would want). I knew because we would be in a hospital, they would still be held liable to hospital policies and procedures in the end.

  With G, my water broke in the morning but just a very small leak. The BC just told me to go about my day (rest, eat, maybe light walking). I didn't have any contractions so at 8pm I went to the BC to get checked out. I was already 6cm! They actually let me go home to wait and SWH. I woke up at 3:30am finally in real labor. Got to the birth center at 4:30 and she was born at 6am in the tub. I know if I had been seeing an OB, or maybe even the Ballard Midwives, I may have at some point ended up on Pitocin to get things going.

  It all depends on how much of an out of hospital experience you want. If you want the care of a midwife but the reassurance of being in a hospital- the Ballard Midwives are perfect for you

  Ps- Sorry to digress into my own little birth experience story but I just wanted to detail out a little bit about how accommodating the BC midwives were with my birth and just letting me go in my own time.  

  

  

  

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