Are you against having students attend to your birth alongside the doctor?

[Anonymous]

I’ve had two births and both were at teaching hospitals and both I only saw an OBGYN attending for the last like two minutes of the birth. Totally fine, the residents and students were great and honestly I felt like it was nice to have so many people checking on me and my babies!

All that said though— my second birth I had two different residents place two different epidurals wrong and had to get a third epidural with an attending who finally did it right. That was really tough.

[Anonymous]

Both of my kids were delivered at teaching hospitals (hard to avoid in Boston) and was totally fine with residents being in the room. I had a planned bilateral salpingectomy with my 2nd c-section and I let the resident do it. It was totally fine, I am not even sure it could've gone sideways because my OB was basically standing on top of her, haha.