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[quote=Anonymous]He delivered my first. He's a good doctor. He gets accolades for being "natural birth" friendly, but he's really just mom friendly. He listens and tries to work hard for you to get what you need in terms of your individual birth. He once told me that as hard as he was working for my drug free birth, he would work for a mom who decided to schedule an elective c section. He said when it comes down to it, he'd educate her on what he felt was safest for her and then respect her choices. So don't confuse the low intervention for "no monitoring." I had a glitch with my first pregnancy (amniotic shelf) that freaked me the F out, and he was so, so, so calming about it, even though it meant some extra monitoring. then I had some issues with the birth itself (lots of bleeding - more than there should have been) and he was calming about that (although he did ask me to come in). I did end up with a completely drug free birth but I feel confident I would have been supported no matter what choices I'd made.

This is more relevant to those who want drug free birth: I didn't deliver my second with him because I was not crazy about sibley and also because of some weird things that happened with my actual delivery (he really kind of pushed the "sitting back" position hard). I tore like hell with my first, a small baby, because I think of that position. So my criticism of him is that he's FANTASTIC for being low-intervention, but you really need to have confidence in your own body because, unlike my experience with my midwife, he didn't really know how to minimize tearing or help me position myself for the easiest drug free birth. At one point he mentioned an episiotomy when I think I clearly should just not have been on my ass trying to push something out of me!

All that said, if you had a doula or someone able to encourage you to move around or know how to minimize tearing. And also, he may have evolved his "pushing stage" management since my first birth, more than 5 years ago. [/quote]

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