Help choosing OB GYN/Hospital between DC and Harford County

Re: Help choosing OB GYN/Hospital between DC and Harford County

• anonsouthernbell member

  December 2011

  I would vote for someone closer to home as chances are you won't be at work when you go into labor.  Plus, I would hate to have to deal w/DC area traffic if I was in Har Co and went into labor.
  

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• jcsntms06 member

  December 2011

  anonsouthernbell:

  I would vote for someone closer to home as chances are you won't be at work when you go into labor.  Plus, I would hate to have to deal w/DC area traffic if I was in Har Co and went into labor.
  

  I agree with this statement. Definitely look into some hospital in the Baltimore even Harford County areas. Here's a list of just a few in that area:

  Upper Chesapeake

  Franklin Square

  St. Joe's (more toward Towson)

  GBMC (Towson area)

  Harbor Hospital

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• mdmommy07

  December 2011

  I agree with choosing a doctor closer to home. I was working in Virginia when I had my boys and I delivered at St. Joe's in Towson. I would not have wanted to go too far for my appointments, especially when you go weekly the last month. I ended up having c-sections for both so I had a follow-up 2 weeks PP, and then again at 6 weeks PP, and would not have enjoyed going too far for these appointments either.

  

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• LWilli35

  December 2011

  No suggestions really for doctors since I see the OB/GYN practice at Washington Hospital Center where I work in DC, but I do that commute as well (so do a few other girls on here and TN).  Who knows, maybe we commute together!

  

  

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• HappyToBe2012 member

  December 2011

  I live in northern Harford and work in Baltimore.  I've been going to Dr London at Women's Care OB/GYN in Bel Air for years and love her.  She delivers at Franklin Square Hospital.

  

  
  

  

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• Maryland Baby member

  December 2011

  I love my Dr's at Upper Cheasapeake womens care and despite my in-laws advice not to deliver at upper chesapeake I trusted my Dr's implicitly and delivered there. Wonderful experience and I know many many people who say the same thing. I can't speak for any other hospitals but for me I would go here again, just no NICU. Can't say enough good things about my Dr's though Morey/Swanbeck/Levy/Sopher.

  I would pick closer to home rather than DC although you could go half way between the two and look into Anne Arundel? I know someone who delivered two babies there and also had great experiences.

  Good luck! 

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• khayes85

  January 2012

  I live in Harford Co, but I am delivering at Anne Arundel Medical Center. There are quite a few practices that have their offices at the center. It's such a wonderful hospital and the birthing suites are state of the art. Upper Chesapeake is much closer, but I really didn't like the way my husband was treated there when he had an emergency appendectomy - and I don't like the fact that they don't have a NICU. Franklin Square was another option, but I found out that they have the highest infant mortality rate in Maryland. 

  I've been to an OB practice (Chesapeake Women's Care) at AAMC and a Midwife (I'm currently going to Bay Area Midwifery) and I highly recommend both. If you already work in DC, going to your appointments in Annapolis shouldn't be such a big deal. 

  Look around and see what you like the most.

  Best of luck! 

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