Showing posts with label help. Show all posts
Showing posts with label help. Show all posts

16 July 2008

A Call For Advice!!!

OK, everyone. Here's the scoop. I've been reading up on natural birth (OK, men, if you don't want to hear about this stuff, this is your queue to skip past this post) and the differences between OBs and midwives and now I'm asking for your advice/experiences. I've heard some horror stories from both sides and now I'm honestly contemplating switching doctors half way through my pregnancy. The doctor I see is great so far, but the downside is that he's in a practice with 4 other doctors. The rule in the practice is that you have to see each doctor at least once before you deliver because any one of them could be delivering your baby.

With Jonah, I saw one doctor through the whole pregnancy and he was wonderful, but of course he didn't deliver me because they called some "on-call" doctor instead. I decided to try a different doctor on the count that I wouldn't be here through the whole pregnancy because we were thinking about moving...and now we're not. So I wasn't very thorough in my investigation of providers and really wasn't thinking long-term on this one.

So now I ask you for your advice! I haven't made any decisions yet and I'd like some feedback.
Please leave me your comments if you know of a great midwife or doctor and who NOT to go to. Thanks everyone! I want this to be a good experience and not a scary one.