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CNM and hospital

Chellbell20Chellbell20 member
edited July 2021 in Ohio Babies

I am looking for a new CNM and hospital as I start TTC #2.  I had a very typical, medicated birth with #1, which is not what I wanted, but I did not have the support in the hospital I needed to do otherwise.  It ended fine, but I want to go in this time with better planning so that I can not only have my healthy baby, but a birth experience I want.  

I am looking at St. Ann's on my PCP recommendation and because they have tubs and can do water births.  Can anyone recommend a midwife practice that delivers at St. Ann's  and actually does the water births, I read that not all do even with the option available.  

 Also, can anyone recommend a doula that would travel to St. Ann's and out to Newark, Ohio where I live.  

TIA!  


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  • Athena0809Athena0809 member

    I can't personally speak of CNMs practices around Columbus, what I can tell you is that most hospitals--at exception of Riverside--have CNMs on staff, their job is to assist on births where the mother has no OB assigned, like in the case of her OB not having privileges at that particular hospital, or when the mother has no medical insurance therefore does not have an OB, or when the  birth is eminent and her OB can't make it there on time. I know some women actually show up a hospital they weren't assigned to just to have a CNM deliver their babies.

     

     

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  • KKSBeansKKSBeans member
    You live in Newark ?? I delivered at Licking with a CNM and an unmedicated birth. Now they don't have tubs, but it really was a great experience. I had Erica Brown and loved her. She is at LMH Women's Health.
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    I will not go back to LMH.  I had dd there and saw the midwives at Women's Health, and they weren't bad other than not being there until the last minute.  The nurses were the most unhelpful group I have ever heard of.  I feel like they scared and pushed me into laying on my back in bed not moving because they couldn't get dd on the monitors.  That quite possibly led to dd never rotating, causing pain so high I needed an oxygen mask and epi for our safety and eventually an episiotomy because she was sunny side up.  

     On top of that, two people very close to me have been misdiagnosed after going to that hospital, both with conditions that could have seriously injured or killed then if left untreated as LMH tried to do.  I always heard the jokes about lmh, I just never saw first hand their truth.  Now I have.  I no longer trust that hospital with my life, let alone that of my unborn child. 

      


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  • JenLee3JenLee3 member

    There's a great group of CNW's that are now with OSU. They were with a private practice in Westerville, and moved to the OSU medical offices in Gahanna. They come very highly recommended by many people. They only deliver at OSU, so that may be a little farther for you. OSU does now have birthing tubs, though.You can check out the midwives on their facebook page at: 

    https://www.facebook.com/ColumbusMidwife?ref=br_tf 

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  • KKSBeansKKSBeans member
    imageChellbell20:

    I will not go back to LMH.  I had dd there and saw the midwives at Women's Health, and they weren't bad other than not being there until the last minute.  The nurses were the most unhelpful group I have ever heard of.  I feel like they scared and pushed me into laying on my back in bed not moving because they couldn't get dd on the monitors.  That quite possibly led to dd never rotating, causing pain so high I needed an oxygen mask and epi for our safety and eventually an episiotomy because she was sunny side up.  

     On top of that, two people very close to me have been misdiagnosed after going to that hospital, both with conditions that could have seriously injured or killed then if left untreated as LMH tried to do.  I always heard the jokes about lmh, I just never saw first hand their truth.  Now I have.  I no longer trust that hospital with my life, let alone that of my unborn child. 

      

    Oh wow, I am sorry to hear that. Erica came and broke my water at 8cms and hung around for 4 hours, occasionally coming in to rub my leg and talk me through contractions. Now the nurses at Women's Health were often, biitchy, but my L & D Nurse was great too !!

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