any one not have an ob/mw yet?

[nichole]

hi

just wondering if anyone else is like me? i have an appointment with a fp to get a referral for a midwife. i think i know the birthcenter i want to go to but don't have a midwife yet? i'm starting to feel alone though with all these ppl with appointments! i don't see any rush quite yet except for the blood work which my fam. practitioner can do. i just moved here so it was hard for me to get a new dr and stuff. where i used to live they won't even see you until 13 weeks.

[gethane]

I'm right there with ya, though I did call a place yesterday. For various reasons I don't want to go back to my OB that delivered my last one (mostly because I don't want to deliver at that hospital again!) so I just picked one from my insurance provider list and called them yesterday. The nurse will do an intake appt on June 16th, but I won't see the OB until after July 1, and I'll be 13 weeks according to LMP (but only 11 according to when I think I conceived)

I'm ok with this though. I've done this 4 times before and I've never had any troubles until the third trimester when I develop high blood pressure.

My biggest concern, though, with this schedule, is since I'm likely going to be forced into a repeat c-section, and I think I'm 2 weeks less than my LMP will indicate, they won't have an early u/s which are supposedly more accurate for dating purposes.

[Persephone]

There is a doula lady I know who will be a midwife in time for me to use her, and I would like to go with her. If not, there are a couple other midwives to call, but I don't know if I really want to go with a midwife or not.

So, no, I don't have anyone yet, and I'm not really in a rush to, either. I will basically refuse as many tests as I can, and my midwife has to be one who will go sit in the other room and be available if called on. Or rather, I would like her for labor support, which is why I'm thinking of just calling her to be a doula. But I would like her to be there to catch the baby or recommend we go to the hospital or something if need be.

[Jlse]

Nope don't have one either! I'm starting to make apt.s for interviews - have one interview at the end of next month. Have met one MW briefly but dh hasn't yet and since we are doing a homebirth he feels it's important for him to feel confident as well. Interesting as he didn't care who the OB was for our 1st one! I kinda like that this is making him more involved in the process!

[ScotiaSky]

Called a Birth Center with a midwife within minutes of a postive test on May 5th.
They said they would call me back after all the month of Jauary has passed. i think I have a pretty good chance of getting in as I have used midwifes at a different Birth House for our last pregnancy and my edd is Jan 9th early in the month so they were not booked up yet.
By all rights I should have called my first birth house and it would be ano brainer to get in but as much as I loved my midwifes I ended up with a non-emergency transfer to their back-up hospital and had a horrible time ,when I finally got out of that place I swore I would never walk through their doors(the hospitals again) and it would be kind of hard to di if I used that Birth House again.
But now I am getting nervous thinking maybe I should have called them and put my name there as well just in case. I can't imagine having to use a Doctor for my pregnancy and birth on purpose..in fact I flat out refuse. The whole thing makes me sick and stressed and if they haven't called by Monday i am calling them. For every woman accepted there are 15 on a waiting list.

I have time though as first appts. aren't until 10-12 weeks.


Must go

[Raisingarrows]

I don't have an OB/MW yet either. Of course, that could be b/c I just found out I am pg! :LOL

I moved a few months ago and since the hospitals around here are not VBAC friendly, I am going to try to go to a Birth Center a couple of hours away from here. We're going to look at the place on Friday.

AmyR

[AAK]

AmyR--where I am from you can't legally do a VBAC in a birth center. Home or Hospital is it--and the hospitals are slowly changing to no VBAC policies too.

I am currently in between two midwives. The first delivered my last baby and I was 100% satisfied (ecstatic actually) about how we worked together. However, I really want to birth at home and she doesn't do homebirths. The second is a homebirth midwife and my doula trainer. I love her too and think she would be great. No brainer, right? Well I am still convincing dh to do a homebirth. So no appt yet for me. I have done blood work with the fertility center (I used them before--although this was unassisted) and have my prog. supplement prescription through them but I turned down the early ultrasound (I think that was the first time that nurse heard the word "no" for that--she sounded really shocked) and told them that I don't plan on using their doctors for my prenatal care.

Amy

[fiandaca]

I just had a positive test on Weds. morning so I don't have my MW picked out yet exactly. I do have a hospital midwife whom I've already seen a few times for annual pap exams and with my last pregnancy which ended in a miscarriage. I have an appointment with her in mid-June and if all goes well, my partner and I will then start interviewing homebirth midwives. I think I know who we'll end up going with though, based on the research we did last time I was pg. There weren't that many options that including MWs with a lot of years of experience.

[nichole]

yea! i made an appointment with a midwife! woohoo. this is my first time seeing a midwife so i'm so excited. it is at a birthcenter, and i feel so lucky that we have one in the area.

[Tomoe]

I'm going to call a midwife. I'm not going back to the gynaecologist that delivered my first, nor to the hospital. They say that they were committed to "natural" delivery, but guess what, I had induction, AROM, VI, monitoring and delivered laying on my back...
And I payied for privacy, but my bed was in front of the door of the delivery room, always left open, so anyone walking in the corridor could see my intimate parts. I think that I asked for the door to be closed a million of times, but nurses, midwife, gyn were constantly going in and out...