Momma Aimee
03-08-2007, 12:06 PM
ok the natural bith community in DM Iowa SUCKS, no two ways about it. there are NOT a lot of options. only a cupld of CNM, one one "office" of them -- part of an OB office, on BCBS -- only 2 others in town anyway that are not part of that office (as far as I know tehre are only 2 hb mw too).......
wellllllllll there is this one male OB who is locally called "a male mid-wife" he is totally into natural birth, he is supposed to be great. i have never heard anything too neg about him, and everyone wants him......
he used to back up the CNM I used for T -- but cut back his practe and stopped doing so. he is in his own pratice and catches like 90+% of his own babies. he keeps his pratice smaller than some CNMs
He has a 6 month waiting list to get on as a new GYN patient with regard to fertlity.....and doesn't take new patients otherwise (I think -- i knwo the waiting is is true, we were on it and the nurse told me it would be that long or longer).............
well I contacted him last summer, and got told to call again when i had a due date.......i called in Jan about fertlity and the nurse put me on the list (she was very nice)......well I sent him a note tell him about our 11/6/07 due date and his office called today -- he is accepting me as a new patient !! :) :) :) :)
I am sooooooooooooooo excited. soooooooooo excited.
Now I have the safety of a OB, but i can relax and jsut be cuz i knwo THIS OB is not gonna push every intervention on me......
I am soooooooooooooooooooooo happy and soooooooooooooooo jazzed.
I had to share.
Aimee
wellllllllll there is this one male OB who is locally called "a male mid-wife" he is totally into natural birth, he is supposed to be great. i have never heard anything too neg about him, and everyone wants him......
he used to back up the CNM I used for T -- but cut back his practe and stopped doing so. he is in his own pratice and catches like 90+% of his own babies. he keeps his pratice smaller than some CNMs
He has a 6 month waiting list to get on as a new GYN patient with regard to fertlity.....and doesn't take new patients otherwise (I think -- i knwo the waiting is is true, we were on it and the nurse told me it would be that long or longer).............
well I contacted him last summer, and got told to call again when i had a due date.......i called in Jan about fertlity and the nurse put me on the list (she was very nice)......well I sent him a note tell him about our 11/6/07 due date and his office called today -- he is accepting me as a new patient !! :) :) :) :)
I am sooooooooooooooo excited. soooooooooo excited.
Now I have the safety of a OB, but i can relax and jsut be cuz i knwo THIS OB is not gonna push every intervention on me......
I am soooooooooooooooooooooo happy and soooooooooooooooo jazzed.
I had to share.
Aimee