Midwife vs. OB

[julianovak]

ok, i just called about 10 different ob/gyn offices in the area. we only have 3 hospitals that deliver babies...... and only one has waterbirthing. and not all ob/gyn offices are affilated with which hospital i choose. uhh, so confusing. ANYWAY..... sorry for rambling on............. what do you think about a birth with a midwife vs. an OB.............
tell me all you know........... im getting confused....... do midwives help you with breathing throughout labor? or maybe other techniques????     LET ME KNOW GIRLS....... I want to get everything to go like i plan on. (first pregnancy i saw like 3 or 4 diff docs. --- i couldnt connect with any of them........ I hope this time around will be different!!)

[julianovak]

WELL, i was also induced, to add to everyones good story......... i was induced 2wk early, given pitocin, asked for epidural, the contfractions were unbearable, too long, not enouf in between...... got epidural, they up'd my pitocin, and baby started having bad reaction, contractions too strong, too lobg, i mean 2min long half miun in between, i told them to lower it bc baby wasnt reacting well to it. GOOD THING I DID. THEY WOULD HAVE TOLD ME BABY IS HAVING BAD "REACTION" to the labor--------------- which is SO NOT the case. good thing i was ready to push at that point, and she was out within min............ i think it took 2 contractions.    it is not the pit/epi fault for c section, when u have epidural they up ur pit, which causes baby heart rate to go down! that was my point, and they request er c section........................

[m3lanie]

Shake their heads they may but just because one office has a beautiful team doesn't mean all of the ob-gyn offices around the world are as perfectly beautiful. I've read lots of posts over the months on how HORRIBLE ob-gyns or the lack their of support they can be and so people deserve to be informed of this and stats don't lie unless ones own opinion wants to override it but that isn't reality that's fantasy land. What is no fantasy land is what's good for one isn't always good for another. It is true not all ob-gyns are bad but many don't have a great bedside manner either and that's a fact. (personal experience thru a friend who was high risk. my eyeballs saw this first hand).

[Quinns momma]

I was also induced with pitocin at 38 weeks and my labor progressed beautifully.  Went so quickly in fact that there was no time for an epid.  Most likely will be induced this pregnancy as well.  This time I have requested an epid as well....  I do not have any fear of a C-sect being needed....    It is amazing how I see certain "facts" pop up about C-sect rates etc... I have worked in Ob-Gyn off and on for 13 years... Sometimes what you ladies post is news to me... I often mention it to fellow collegues and they just shake their heads in utter disbelief..

[Ashelen]

I don't think the pitocin/epidural is the cause, I think that it's because of insurance reasons, which is a (pardon the language, or rather the stars) damn ****** reason to give somebody a c-section. My mother-in-law is an OB nurse and she says she's seen several cases where a woman was given a c-section because it was actually less risky on paper than a vaginal delivery, even though she didn't have complications that indicated CLEARLY the need for a c-section. It's absolute CRAP.

If you do choose an OB, do research and make sure that the c-section rate of that doctor is acceptable and low, because sometimes doctors do it just to speed things up, which is AWFUL.

that being said, I will still always go OB because I consider it safer.

Sunkissed:::: OMG do not feel bad about your decision. I went through so much pain with my kidney stones in the last few months that I was terrified of labor and that's what led me to choose OB and epidural delivery....I wouldn't change a darn thing. Just because you choose to be in a hospital, possibly using meds, doesn't diminish your experience or lessen the effort you will go through to bring your baby into this world....you are making the RIGHT decision, just like a woman who chooses a midwife is making the RIGHT decision, because it all depends on each of us and what we feel is right. <3 I know how you feel though women who do it naturally sometimes do tend to look down on those of us who don't.

Also they used pitocin for about 2 hours with me until my contractions got up to speed, and I had an epidural, and my daughter was born with a perfect APGAR, bright-eyed and looking around alertly from moment 1....and my pushes were just what they needed to be (peaking flat), and I actually felt the pain (dulled down obviously) so I don't think epidurals or pitocin are as evil as people think. I think it depends on the doctor and the woman's physiology.

[julianovak]

thats great!!!! well, it IS bc of pitocin/epidural that c section is where it is today 46%

[Limonada]

Just a comment: being 41 weeks - clearly overdue - I was induced using Cervidil then given Pitocin, my water was broken and, ultimately, I needed an epidural (the choice was completely mine, it wasn't thrust upon me).

My son was NEVER  in distress, not for a minute the entire time. In fact, my labour nurse (who was with me the entire time, along with DH) commented that he was so stable that it was almost as though he didn't know he was about to be born. He certainly wasn't stressed!  In addition, my labour never stalled out, it progressed wonderfully.  When DS was born, he was bright eyed and alert.