<p>I am on waiting list for the birth center right now. I just got on in fact. They are booked end of Sept due dates. But they are in the process of hiring a new midwife and hope to have her there in time so I would be added in. Fine.</p>
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<p>BUT...I found out something odd about the hospital. I am thinking if I cannot get in at the birth center, I would deliver at home. Then I would go to the area hospital if there was a problem. BUT, I was told that they won't give epidurals or such to a woman who comes in who does not have her regular doctor. They said epidurals are elective so if you come in without an assigned doctor who knows your history, the anestesiologists will not give any of that sort of pain killer.</p>
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<p>Do they just do this to scare people away from doing home or birth center births? Is this just a punishment? Does this rule even make sense?</p>
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<p>BUT...I found out something odd about the hospital. I am thinking if I cannot get in at the birth center, I would deliver at home. Then I would go to the area hospital if there was a problem. BUT, I was told that they won't give epidurals or such to a woman who comes in who does not have her regular doctor. They said epidurals are elective so if you come in without an assigned doctor who knows your history, the anestesiologists will not give any of that sort of pain killer.</p>
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<p>Do they just do this to scare people away from doing home or birth center births? Is this just a punishment? Does this rule even make sense?</p>