Anyone know of a good OB/GYN in NH?

[AnnMarie]

I need to see an doctor for some problems I've been having. Anyone know of a good OB/GYN in NH? TIA!

[VermontMommy]

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[AnnMarie]

Thanks! She's covered under my insurance!:thumb If I can't find anyone closer to home (she's a 2 hour drive) then I will see if my Dr. will give me a referral to her.

[AP Momma]

I use a midwife/Ob combo in Manchester. Kull & Griffith 641-2222

I love them. They are in the medical buildings right at Elliot Hospital.

I have Cigna and they told me that you don't need a referal for an OB, that they are considered a primary physician. Call and check with your provider though.

Kris

[LdyBluNH@aol]

APMomma - i was just going to post about them! an ob and two midwives. i delivered with them in '98, but only used them from my 7th month on.

my sister is on baby number two with them; but she's not AP and doesn't question a doctor's advice.



i myself did not like the greene's practice and left it. i was there for pre-natal care and was told by the ARNP in a bitchy voice that she didn't have time for my questions as she had other appointments waiting. that was the last appointment i left there in tears. i'm not saying they are bad, they were just a bad chocie for ME. i want to be involved and understand what's going on. i don't just blindly follow their orders and i really didn't care for the attitude i got from them when i couldn't figure out which door to report to for an ultrasound.

[AP Momma]

Terri,

Kull and Griffith added a new midwife 2 years ago, Christine Isabelle, so they have three now. Linda, Marty, Christine and Dr. Kull. Charlie is still in the office too. I love, love them!

[paloma]

dr Kip Mackenzie in Keene, very friendly, esp. to homebirth, spoke alongside Ina Mae, I would rather go to him than some midwives!

I do paps and complete pelvic exams in Southern NH.

Best wishes!

[MamaBug]

I use Harbour Womens Health in Portsmouth and I love them. I switched to them after the awful birth of my second child.

They are very AP friendly and Dr Lantenin is the best!:love

Here is the link if you want to investigate

http://www.harbourwomenshealth.com/

[zoebugsmom]

Soccermom- you must be close to me, cause I used them, too! I really like most of the midwives, but never met Dr. Lantenin. Marybeth was at the hospital with me.

[MamaBug]

I am in Strafford, where are you?

I only switched to them after the birth of my second. It was horrible and they even sent me home with a staple in, Dr Lantenin got it out and I felt nothing, he was amazing. I hope to have another under his care very soon. I had heard great things about the whole staff from a friend who went with me for the staple removal to introduce me to Dr L

[zoebugsmom]

I'm in Newmarket. I will be going back to them if we manage to concieve this summer. One of my friends is having her second child with them, too.

[MamaBug]

Well hopefully we will both be there for the same reason!:belly I hope to be pregnant by summer as well! Good luck!

[Cutie Patootie]

[Rebecca]

I'm in dover and just had a great birth w/ the midwives from dover women's health.
I love their practice!

[MamaBug]

Rebecca I have heard good things about them as well!
Glad that your birth went well!
Do they work out of Wentworth Douglass? And do they have the birthing tubs?

[Rebecca]

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yes to both! They were rushing to fill the tub when i started to push... never got in the thing, but by then I didn't care. lol! Just wanted the babe out. He's 11 days old today!

[MamaBug]

WOW!!! That is great! I just love babies!:love Oh the smell!

[Rebecca]

We live so close, we should get together at a park when it warms up a bit!

Is there a mdc playgroup for our area?

[MamaBug]

I don't know but we could start one!:D Sounds like a plan

[zoebugsmom]

Butting in... I'd love to meet some MDC mamas in our area! I'm in need of some like minded friends. :)

[MamaBug]

Sounds good! When the weather gets warmer for your little ones we can meet up at the park!

Anyone else? Maybe I will start a new thread?

[Cutie Patootie]

[MamaBug]

The three of us that want to do it so far all live on the Seacoast. But I would not mind traveling, can always squeeze in a trip to the Mall of NH :LOL afterwards!

[zoebugsmom]

Occasional traveling is fine with us, too. I have a friend due with dc #2 any day now, and she might be game, too. :)

[mittendrin]

yippeeeeh, mdc playgroup. i want in i want in!!! there's a few more mdc moms in the manchester area that i know of.
we really should get togther, sometimes i think i'm a total alien here with my views on raising a child.

i'm in manchester and pretty preggers right now, but i can do some traveling (if there's a bathroom nearby
:LOL ).

do we have a plan already?

[Rebecca]

Hmm.. where to meet, and when?

A public place for the first time? Does anyone know of a nice park (that's maybe fenced in?)

There's a nice one in Durham, near UNH at Jackson's Landing. The equipment is nice and it's far from the road...

[MamaBug]

I am relatively new to this state and don't know where much is and the one park that I know of in Rochester is too far for most ppl. I am up for anything, just for me it has to be in the afternoon as my oldest does not get out of kindergarden until 11:30, maybe we could also do it on a weekend, that way the dp can come. My dh is very leery of me meeting ppl from online with the kids, kwim? So I know for the first meeting he would feel better if he were there.

Let me know the details!

We could also go to a kids museum. The is that one in Concord, the Metamorphasis? It is inexpensive and just wonderful, plus they have a place out back for a picnic lunch!

[Cutie Patootie]

[MamaBug]

charmingfare farm is great fun! I would love to meet there!

[zoebugsmom]

Also, Prescott Park in Portsmouth is great, they have plays and music free in the summer. There's the Portsmouth Children's Museum nearby, too.

[Rebecca]

The charmingfare farm would be fun! It seems like a nice central location for manch and seacoast mamas. How about choosing a saturday when it warms up a bit so we can make it a whole family affair? I feel more comfortable meeting new people with dh also.

It opens for the season May 1.

As a side note, my sister's former roommate had a chance to date the owner of this farm, and turned it down for some loser greasemonkey she had been dating previously. Man, what I wouldn't give to be part of the charmingfare family! I'd love a farm like that (and the guy has bucks, from what I understand). SHe was kinda a dork anyway.

[mittendrin]

never been to charmingfare, i've heard they're not as good to the animals as they could be, kwim...somebody please correct me, you gotta understand, i looove animals and hate it when they get locked up in tiny cages and treated like plushtoys. but i'd like to hear another opinion about the place. so far i've only been to the friendly farm in dublin and find that a great place, but not good for a playdate, cause it's a different direction.
the met is a good idea, esp with bad weather. there's also one in londonderry.

if you guys wanna meet sometime soon, that'd be great, i'm afraid i won't be going out too much anymore towards the end of may, when little stinker is due to arrive:LOL

i also like the idea of meeting on the weekends with dp's, my dh doesn't have anything against me meeting people from the mdc board, but gee, the guy needs to get out as badly as ds

:LOL , we haven't met too many like-minded people here so far.

[LdyBluNH@aol]

i know there are la leche meetings in manchester in case that helps get you in touch with new folks

[Rebecca]

There's also a LLLI meeting in Dover at the Library the second tuesday of every month at 10am. I'll be going this week with my brand new baby, and very active toddler. Zoebugsmom and soccermom, will you be there?

[zoebugsmom]

OH, the 13th? I can probably go. My first job was at the library in Dover! I've never been to a LLL meeting either. I had no idea they had them at the Dover Library.

[MamaBug]

Nope both my kids are in school and my LLL days are over!:LOL For me it has to be later in the afternoon or when school is over I will have more free time!

[zoebugsmom]

I must not have read your post right. I totally didn't see that it was at 10 am. I have to work. I wish the meetings were in the afternoon or evenings!

[LdyBluNH@aol]

here's the list of meetings

i'm not certain where dover is so i couldnt figure whats around

http://www.lllusa.org/MENH/NewHampshire.html

[Jan Andrea]

Shoot, now I wish I'd gone to the LLL in Dover yesterday... then I could have met Rebecca! I went to one a couple of months ago, but haven't dragged myself over since. Which is silly, because we live only a block from the library and I'm there at least twice a week with my nearly-4-year-old.

So, is there a plan for Seacoast-area MDCers to meet? I haven't posted here very frequently, but lurk from time to time.

[Rebecca]

Don't feel bad.. we're all sick and didn't go yesterday. Maybe next month.

Is this Rev Jan perchance?

[Jan Andrea]

Yup, that's me!

I remembered you'd emailed me a while back, too.

[AP Momma]

Another Manchester Mom in for a playdate. I have a school ager that I need to be around for in the afternoons and a nearly 18 month old toddler. Weekends are good for us too.

I've met Annika already. We were in a former playgroup together.

I put in another vote for the Met in Derry. They recently moved and the new area is very nice. All one floor and it's very open concept now so you can't lose any children even if you have a few going in different directions :o

I'm with Annika about Charmingfare Farms. Maybe I'm spoiled after living near the San Diego zoo but the animal containers aren't very large at all. It was rather sad when I chaperoned DD's field trip there. I'm not so opposed that I wouldn't go to meet some MDC Momma's but it's not my first choice.

The Portsmouth Children museum sounds nice too. I haven't been but have been meaning to take Abbey.

Kris

[MamaBug]

I myself am not a fan of the Portsmouth one. It is several floors and I am always worried that I will lose on of my kids, and the weekends there are a nightmare, especially in warmer weather. Also the parking stinks. Just my two cents!

[zoebugsmom]

Portsmouth's nice cause there is the park and all the stores and ice cream. You can't go to Portsmouth with out stopping at Annabelle's ice cream, yum. I've never been to the museum, so can't give an opinion on that.

I've never been to the other places mentioned, so have no input on them.

[MamaBug]

If we just want a place to let the kids run and have a picnic Prescoot park is perfect and in the summer they have kids concerts in the afternoon. I have never had Anabelles ice cream but I heard it's wonderful!

[zoebugsmom]

That's exactly what I was thinking of. The concerts and plays and the park. I :love Portsmouth.

[MamaBug]

Me too! The kids shows at SRT are only $5 a ticket! The next one is Alexandar and the No Good Horrible Very Bad Day! We could do that and a picnic too???

[mittendrin]

when is that? i'm due end of may, maybe i can squeeze y'all in before then:LOL

[MamaBug]

I think it opens in a week or two?

[zoebugsmom]

I don't know how well the bug would do sitting through a whole play, but we can give it a try. Any one else have a babe under one?

[Jan Andrea]

Sophia is 6 months. Stephen will be 4 years old next month, and he'd love to meet more kids!

[MamaBug]

My youngest will be 4 next month too! The kids plays are not that long and there is an intermission, I think in total they are like an hour, with the break.

[Cutie Patootie]

[MamaBug]

Well the park is right next to the theater, so maybe we could go to the show ( those with older kids) and then head to the park to meet up with those with younger ones for picnic?

[Cutie Patootie]

[mittendrin]

sounds like a very good idea. ds is 19 mos but wouldn't make it through a play. me neither with having to pee every 5 mins:LOL
do you guys have date and time?

[mittendrin]

P.S. should we start a new thread....????

[zoebugsmom]

Yeah, meeting for a picnic would be good. Any one have a date/time in mind?

[amyamanda]

[QUOTE=paloma]dr Kip Mackenzie in Keene, very friendly, esp. to homebirth, spoke alongside Ina Mae, I would rather go to him than some midwives!
QUOTE]

I realize I'm coming in late on this but wanted to second the suggestion of Kip (Malcolm) Mackenzie in Keene...I have a couple of (homebirth-minded) friends who have had fantabuloso (hospital) experiences with him. :)

[Erica1112]

I have been going to Garrisons Womens Health Center in Dover. I used them for my newest daughters pregnancy too. I use the MW's there, but Ive also met the Dr's and the PA. They are all really nice! I recommend them.

[Rebecca]

Hey Erica, good to see you here! Many of my friends use Garrisons and really like them, fwiw.