Hello ladies! Im T and I am 36 weeks with my 3rd baby. This little one will be born at home, the others were hospital births (my first induced and ended up with an epi, the second was natural, husband caught). Im so excited to have found this community, even if a bit late in the pregnancy!
And I already need advice. I live in GA, an HB unfriendly state. I am actually getting my CNM at a major university here, so I thought I knew what the current climate around HB was (HB with a CPM is "illegal" but everyone looks the other way). Well today I went to my shadow care CNM for my 36 week appt, to get the GBS test done. I get there, and wait an hour before a nurse comes out and says that the practice has dropped me, with no warning. They said they called me, to which I replied no, I talked to no one, then they said, oh, well when you came to the hospital (at 32 weeks for PTL) she told you then that they dropped you. Of course no one talked to me then, why would I have made another appt? And my husband was there, he knows she didnt talk to me. I then realized they thought I was going to make a scene, and so I just took my records and left.
I feel blindsided, and pissed beyond anything. The midwife knew I was a HB patient, she has worked with my CPM for years doing her shadow care, but Im guessing things have changed. I think what upsets me the most is that the CNM didnt even have the professionalism to actually talk to me, even knowing I am a soon-to-be CNM, and would understand if she was getting heat for supporting the underground HB-ers.
So, for those that didnt get shadow care, how did you choose a back-up hospital? Anyone who has actually had to transfer without a backup OB/midwife, how was that experience for you? And were the heck to I get a GBS test now?? Im just afraid of having DFCS show up on my door step thinking that I didnt have any prenatal care, etc. if I ended up in hospital *sigh*
Sorry for the novel, I just wasnt prepared for this! Thanks for any advice!
And I already need advice. I live in GA, an HB unfriendly state. I am actually getting my CNM at a major university here, so I thought I knew what the current climate around HB was (HB with a CPM is "illegal" but everyone looks the other way). Well today I went to my shadow care CNM for my 36 week appt, to get the GBS test done. I get there, and wait an hour before a nurse comes out and says that the practice has dropped me, with no warning. They said they called me, to which I replied no, I talked to no one, then they said, oh, well when you came to the hospital (at 32 weeks for PTL) she told you then that they dropped you. Of course no one talked to me then, why would I have made another appt? And my husband was there, he knows she didnt talk to me. I then realized they thought I was going to make a scene, and so I just took my records and left.
I feel blindsided, and pissed beyond anything. The midwife knew I was a HB patient, she has worked with my CPM for years doing her shadow care, but Im guessing things have changed. I think what upsets me the most is that the CNM didnt even have the professionalism to actually talk to me, even knowing I am a soon-to-be CNM, and would understand if she was getting heat for supporting the underground HB-ers.
So, for those that didnt get shadow care, how did you choose a back-up hospital? Anyone who has actually had to transfer without a backup OB/midwife, how was that experience for you? And were the heck to I get a GBS test now?? Im just afraid of having DFCS show up on my door step thinking that I didnt have any prenatal care, etc. if I ended up in hospital *sigh*
Sorry for the novel, I just wasnt prepared for this! Thanks for any advice!
