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MidWife vs Doctor

MissMommyToYouMissMommyToYou member
in June 2016 Moms
Okay so long story short I moved back to my home town Nacogdoches Texas after living in Dallas Texas for about 8 years I decided to come home anyways I've delivered all 3 of my boys in the city at a hospital with Doctors so Now that I'm pregnant again (5months) to be exact I found out that here in the oldest town in Texas Doctors do not deliver your baby unless there is a medical emergency you only get the supervision/assistance of a midwife which is so weird to me anyways my question is have any of you ever had a Midwife deliver your baby and if so is it any different from a Doctor assisting you? I know this might sound like a silly question but I would really like to know your experience Midwife vs Doctors 
Not that I have a choice anyways.
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  • fishwife799fishwife799 member
    A bunch of us already shared our experiences on this thread. I would take a look at it. Good luck :)

    https://forums.thebump.com/discussion/12640918/doc-or-midwife



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  • MamaNicoleof3MamaNicoleof3 member
    I've had a MW deliver both of my kids and am currently seeing the same one for this PG. the only thing they're not allowed to do (at least in ND) are c-sections. I've loved ours- they're laid back, but super knowledgeable in all the same ways OBs are. We have a practice of half MW and half OBs at the clinic we go to and it's fab. I've loved it. 
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  • VikingGirl12VikingGirl12 member
    At my hospital, in a relatively large town, you get whoever is on call that day. I had a scheduled induction and my doctor was there at L&D, but I only saw her once to say hello, see how I was doing, break my water, etc, and then had nurses and a midwife during labor and almost delivery. My Ob did do my c section tho and was there to check on me after the birth. Unless you're high risk or something unexpected happens, it's a get who you get kind of deal at my hospital/Ob practice. They told us this up front, first appt, and recommended we "shop around" their OBs and midwives because things happen and it's very likely we'd have to see other Drs and midwives throughout my pregnancy. 
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  • BoonhildeBoonhilde member
    For my first I met with many different doctors but my main one was a midwife. She was wonderful, but couldn't sign prescriptions or my maternity leave forms. So that was slightly inconvenient. Nurses actually delivered my baby because the doctor wasn't fast enough. He arrived in time to sew some stitches. I imagine a midwife would be able to do that just fine.
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  • alexhuntalexhunt member
    My first was delivered by a midwife and I am seeing the same midwife for this pregnancy. At the hospital here in montana if you have an ob you just get whoever is on call at the time of your delivery but the midwives deliver all of their patients. As someone else had posted I think the only thing they can't do is a c-section. I have loved my experience with a midwife.
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  • CullensiesCullensies member
    I had a midwife. It was a horrible experience. I chose the midwife because I wanted someone to be there for me emotionally. That was furthest from what actually happened. The actual delivering midwife I had (I was in labor for 28 hours, and went through 3 shift changes of midwives) was horrible, rude, curt, and just generally had a bad attitude. "That woman" delivered my baby. That's an awful feeling.

    In addition, my midwife (the one providing prenatal care and all the delivering midwives, all 3 of them) put both me and my baby in danger.

    A midwife operates on a personal agenda, which believes the "right" way to have a baby is vaginally. In addition, a midwife's goal is to "normalize" pregnancy and child birth. What is happening is what nature intended. By those standards, we'd all be applying Darwinism to childbirth and we'd leave it to nature: whoever makes it out of childbirth alive would be the way of the land. My midwife diagnosed me as "borderline" gestational diabetic, but then never took the time to follow up with me on it, or monitor any of it. I was a full blown gestational diabetic, by most standards. That coupled with the fact that she allowed my baby to go through the stress of a long childbirth were the reasons my child was born hypoglycemic and had to be in an incubator for three days hooked up to an IV drip providing him with glucose. I was not allowed to nurse him. Hypoglycemia in newborns can cause mental retardation, it is more serious than it sounds. 

    The midwives dismissed the six ultrasounds I had that clearly showed my child was Large for Gestational Age, and insisted my child would be no more than 7 pounds. I had a 9 pound baby. But, again, their agenda inspires them to "normalize" everything about pregnancy and childbirth, and so repeatedly dismissed our complications as normal: gestational diabetes, LGA infant, and long childbirth. Had they told me that my baby would be taken from me for three days and stuck in an incubator, I would have gladly taken the c-section. I am convinced that had we had an OB, he/she would have definitely encouraged a c-section, if not flat out demanded that we have one. 

    Some people have good experiences with midwives. Personally, I'll never let one touch me again. They're a danger to mother and child, as far as I'm concerned.
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