Comments on: When You Should Consider Switching Ob/Gyns

By: amelia

amelia — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:41:04 +0000

Michelle–I’m a sucker for the details! I’d love to hear them….every birth story is a learning experience for me….

My third was 11# 12.5oz and it could have been a disaster had I not had a midwife who knew to get me on my hands and knees to get him out. If I had been in a hospital (with docs) laying flat on my back pushing the baby out it would have been much more difficult and I think it would have ended up with Graham breaking his collar bone.

I’m glad you are okay though–traumatic births stick with you for a while. Are you planning on having more?

By: amelia

amelia — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:35:08 +0000

Good for you Stella Blue!!!! I think it is awesome that you were able to have the birth you wanted! I hope you decided to change docs for your next baby?!

By: Stella Blue

Stella Blue — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:51:00 +0000

Great post! I constantly butted heads with my OB, especially toward the end of my pregnancy. He wanted to induce me on my due date, even though there was no medical reason, and I had expressed to him that I was committed to a natural birth. The worst part of the whole experience was that he and I had initially discussed my birth plan, and agreed (so I thought) that we wouldn’t discuss induction until 42 weeks. I ended up going into labor on my own at 41 weeks and delivering my little girl without medication or intervention.

Even with contractions every 2 minutes, I had time to think “heh heh in your FACE!” when we called him at 3:30 AM to say we were heading to the hospital. At one point during transition I started losing steam and my doula whispered “lets show him that women can deliver babies naturally!!” and that encouraged me to get through the rest of the delivery!

By: Sharon M

Sharon M — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:57:00 +0000

My first Dr. was OK, not the best, but I probably would NOT have gone back to him if we had stayed in SA. When I had baby #2 in CO, I really liked the office, the doctors (all female , everything. And when they recommended a version to turn my breech baby, they were very straightforward about the procedure, also gave me some suggestions to try to have her turn naturally. I appreciated the fact that, when I asked why they didn’t do breech births, they didn’t give me the whole “it’s not safe” line. My doctor actually told me, “Well, because of the study on breech births back in 2000, most places just stopped training doctors to do them.” THEN, she told me if I wanted to go that direction, she knew a couple of doctors in the city that would be willing to do a natural breech birth. I was so thankful that she was more concerned about me having the kind of birth I wanted than keeping me as a patient! I stayed on with her group, and they were excellent.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:33:49 +0000

As a mom of a preemie (26 weeks), I hear lots of nurses in the NICU complain about elective births prior to term (36 weeks)!

I met my doctor about 20 minutes before Addie was born, since I hadn’t made it through all the doctors in the practice before delivering. I LOVE LOVE LOVE her, and recommend her highly…