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[quote=Anonymous]I delivered my third child with physicians and midwives at Alexandria Hospital.  I generally liked them and I was happy with the hospital.  At first I didn't like that the hospital didn't have a nursery but despite not sleeping at all after the birth of DC3 due to rooming in, I will say my milk came in fastest with #3. I believe the milk camein faster because I couldn't send #3 to the nursery and take her back every three hours to nurse at night (like I did with the older 2).  One thing I liked about P&M in particular was that they always have a physician or midwife at the hospital 24 hours a day & they never have to call anybody in - they always just have somebody there. As far as I know, you definitely cannot guarantee that your provider will deliver your baby - it is my understanding that it will be whoever is staffed at the hospital at that time.

This was my first experience with a midwife group.  I feel the combination of physicians and midwives means that these midwives may not be as crunchy as other midwives which is what I was looking for but I don't exactly know what you are envisioning.

I had kiddos #2 and 3  delivered with no intervention and no medications.  They were also not delivered by my regular doctor. #1  was delivered by my regular doctor and she did end up giving me Pitocin after a very long labor.   I'm over it at this point but part of me wonders if she really gave me that Pitocin because her shift was ending soon and she just wanted to get it over with before she had to go.   Based on that experience I put less weight on having my regular doctor deliver my subsequent babies.

With #3 delivered by P&M I almost gave birth to her in the car.   I said I wasn't going to be able to walk to the check-in and the midwives met me with a wheelchair at the door of the hospital and wheeled me up quickly.  They were all very nice through this experience and they said this was what they call a drive-by delivery.  I got excellent care afterwards in particular with two bouts of mastitis during the year and a half I nursed baby #3.  One of the times I vomited in a trash can in the exam room right in front of the midwife and she pulled my hair back and rubbed my back![/quote]

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