To answer the questions\/suggestions on the whole OB\/Midwife\/Doula thing, here’s my situation:<\/p>\n
I currently am at a practice that has a midwife and two OBs on staff. I’m not certain one of the OBs delivers, however. But last time I went in I asked the midwife about what would happen were I to use them for labor and delivery. Basically she or<\/i> the OB would be on call, and who delivered would depend on who was on call at the time. This made me sad, because I really like her (the midwife) and I had really hoped it wouldn’t be a “maybe” situation. I really do want a midwife-attended birth, for personal reasons.<\/p>\n
There is a large midwife-only group that practices out of the hospital I’m going to give birth at, so I looked into them. They will accept me as a patient. However, it would be a similar situation, in that even if I really love one of the midwives, they still have one designated on-call person. The difference would be that it would for sure be a midwife, not an OB.<\/p>\n
The problem<\/i> is that I am staying on my anti-depressant during my pregnancy (during breastfeeding is to be determined). It’s not really a big deal to me – I’ve talked it over with one of the OBs at my practice, who okayed it, and I’ve done a lot of research so I feel comfortable with the decision. The problem is that my general practice doctor – who has been proscribing my medication – has said he will request that my OB take over writing my prescription during pregnancy (ostensibly to avoid lawsuits – GP doctors just do not like doing anything with a pregnant woman). And therein lies the problem: I need an OB to write my script. I don’t think midwives can.<\/p>\n
So my plan at this point is to stay with my current practice, as long as I like the other OB and their answers to my interview. I already know I love the midwife, I just want to make sure the OB feels the same way about things. If not, I’ll look into switching to the midwife practice and deal with the medication issue then.<\/p>\n
But I still want a doula there. Mainly because I don’t want a “traditional” labor… if I was planning on just doing the normal thing in a hospital bed with an epidural I wouldn’t really have a need for one. However, there are several things that I’m really hoping for, and I don’t know how receptive the nurses on staff are going to be. I don’t really think I’m going to be in a position to argue anything while I’m having contractions, so I want someone there to be my advocate. Den could possibly do it, but I need him to be at my side, helping me through.<\/p>\n
Don’t get me wrong, I have every faith in doctors in a medical emergency. I just think that sometimes the nurses and doctors over-medicalize birth. If<\/i> I have a low-risk situation I would like to labor however I want to and not be chastized for not doing it the “traditional” way. (Ie, moving around, taking a bath, etc. Even birthing wherever I feel best pushing, not flat on my back on a bed.)<\/p>\n
If the need arises my plans can and will change on the fly. I will be giving birth in a very large hospital that has a level-III nursery, and Den even knows (and greatly respects) one of the head doctors who takes care of all the emergency, extremely-high-risk situations.<\/p>\n
I’m really trying to get the best of both worlds. I want the freedom to do what I want in a very natural, non-medical way, with the safety net right there if something goes wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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