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[quote=Anonymous]Agree with PP re GW midwives and the diet stuff.

As for interventions, the GW midwives actually recommended an epidural for me after a very hard, long, and unproductive labor.  The docs administered the epidural, and the baby wound up a forceps delivery, so a doc handled that, but the midwives stayed involved and followed up with me after.

FWIW, for my second, I did not use the midwives and did not even try to go without an epidural.  Going natural seemed really important to me the first time around.  But after experiencing the magical power of an epidural, it wasn't even a close call for me.

I was also not super happy with all of the midwives, and I felt like they really screwed some things up, which contributed to the long hard labor and the forceps delivery.  Fortunately, it all worked out.  The baby is healthy and I don't appear to have been too messed up by the foreceps, but it was not willing to roll the dice with them again.

GW docs were all awesome.  Some of the midwives are awesome, and I know there's been some turnover, so my experience may no longer be current.[/quote]

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