Do you prefer an OB/GYN or midwife?

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   Miss Infoposted 12 years ago

   Do you prefer an OB/GYN or midwife?
   
   If you were pregnant, which would you prefer to deliver your baby?

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   pitzeleposted 12 years ago

   I have had both and can tell you for my personal comfort, I prefer a mid-wife.  Unless you have a serious medical issue, a midwife can do all of the same things as an OB, but without the overbearing nature.   Sorry, but that has been my experience and that of many of my friends.

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   duffsmomposted 12 years ago

   My daughter has given birth twice and both times bled to the point of danger.  The last time they called for a crash cart before the doctor could get the bleeding clamped off.  Unfortunately, this cannot always be predicted in women and this kind of danger needs a hospital environment.
   
   I had two C-sections so my only choice was an OB.

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   jacqui2011posted 12 years ago

   I had an Ob/Gyn both times and my experience was wonderful. It helped that she was my mums friend so I kinda got special treatment which was great.

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   Lisa HWposted 12 years ago

   I know all the arguments against using a qualified, physician and having a baby in a hospital; but my thinking was that I didn't care about anything but being able to get immediate medical attention to the baby (either during the pregnancy or during the labor/delivery).
   
   Personally, and if it weren't for wanting the quickest and best medical attention if the baby needed it, I would have preferred to go off in a room in my house and have my babies without anyone else around.  I didn't see it as "about me", though; and I didn't see either the pregnancies or deliveries as anything other than something we go through to get to the important thing of having a live, healthy, baby (and concentrating on the more important stuff that goes on after the baby is all here).
   
   My babies were brought home to a warm, cozy, personal, environment once they were born.  Both were born in the presence of "sterile, hospital, equipment"  (one 6 weeks early, upside down, and born in an hour and a half, and the other 3 weeks early with "some head issue" that didn't slow down the hour-and-a-half-or-so labor/delivery).  One of my nephews was blue at the time he was born (cord problem).  Another nephew (different mother) was born at a hospital after his mother tried going to a less "institutional" place with a midwife and ended up being wheeled across a busy street to get to the hospital when something went seriously wrong.
   
   I, for one, am happy to have been born at a time and place when the best medical care is available to people whose labors might get complicated.  Call me "old fashioned" (ironically, I guess), but all I cared about was what I believed offered my baby the safest possible environment in which to be born.  I didn't want or need anything from my doctors other than their experience and training, and I didn't care about the "decor" of the room in which my babies arrived.

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