[StrangeMoon]

Tell me about your experiences with New Dawn Midwifery... did you use them for your birth? Home birth or hospital birth? Costs? How do you feel about them overall? I have BCBS individual plan, and I just called & was told that a home birth with a CNM would be covered once my maternity coverage kicks in in January (which is when my husband and I are planning on starting to TTC).

I want a home birth, but he's not so sure about it... I'm thinking about making an appointment to go see someone at New Dawn & take him with me. I'm hoping they'll be able to allay some of his fears. I know it's very early since we aren't even trying yet, but he is nervous about the whole idea in the first place (of getting pregnant) and I want to calm him down a bit, as well as get some kind of plan in place.

 

[waylonsmama]

I moved to Asheville about 4 months ago. I just started going to see them for gyn. They were great. Really nice environment...the have this old house off Charlotte St. Really neat!!! I would definitely go and talk to them. I plan on using them for prenatal care when I get preggos again. But we wont be TTC for another year or so. Good luck to you!!!

 

[maekati]

I had my son with them 4 years ago and they are amazing. Jan and the other midwives were supportive and she sort of sat back while I gave birth offering gentle support and words of encouragment when I needed it. She instinctively knew what I needed and wanted while birthing, which was minimal while her energy was very calming and supportive. She helped to empower my confidence in myself and my innate ability to give birth naturally.

I would def. recommend. I have considered moving back to Asheville during this pregnancy just to have them with me again.

 

[mommeeoh]

I am currently using New Dawn for my prenatal care and will be doing our first homebirth with them in a few weeks. While I can't give you any birthing experience feedback yet, I have been very happy with them so far and plan to continue with them for my regular gyn care after the baby. I've met several other moms locally that have used them and all have had very positive things to say.

As far as costs, we're paying everything out of pocket as we have no maternity insurance. If I remember correctly, the estimate we got in the beginning from New Dawn was that it would be just over 4000 for visits, lab work, and home delivery. I don't think that included u/s which normally is done through the obgyn practice that backs them up, and I think that's only if you want one. B/c of my age I went for a NT and associated bloodwork which New Dawn set up for me through Mission and that ran us more than most people would be paying for just an u/s.

As for allaying dh's fears of home birth, I went through that too. I really was wanting a hb this time and he was very resistant at first. Just switching from an OB to midwife was enough for him. On his own he did a lot of research on hbs on the Internet and came back ready to go for it

Some of the things he found included a blog by a mom who had used New Dawn that included her detailed birth story and some articles discussing how much safer it is to give birth with a midwife and at home, I wish I had links for you. I'll check and see if he bookmarked anything and post them if he did.

Hope some of this helps. G/L bringing dh around!

 

[StrangeMoon]

Thanks for the replies...

I'm going to go in to talk to them - I think I'm going to switch to them for my gyno care regardless. As far as prenatal care/delivery, I have to find out what their fees are & how much of it my insurance will cover. Hopefully it will be manageable. If not, maybe they can recommend a decent OB. I've heard that births at Mission usually go pretty well for women who want the kinds of things we want going in, and I would use a doula in that case.

I'm going to try to work on DH regarding HB though; my mom scared the crap out of him by telling him all about the complications she had when I was born (slow labor, big baby with a big head, impatient OB resulted in c-sec - fault of the hospital, but DH and mom won't listen to my arguments) and when she was born (something about RH negative/positive between her & her mom). I need to find him some good information. Everything I've given him so far (mothering articles, etc) he feels are biased and he can't base his opinion on them.