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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's the purpose of having a midwife over an OB if you're planning on having an epidural?[/quote]

+1 can a midwife even order an epidural or do they need sign off from an OB?[/quote]

My  midwife ordered both pitocin and an epidural.  CNM who was part of a hospital-based midwife practice.  In fact, she's the one who recommended we go ahead with the epidural when it looked like my labor was stalling and I was in tremendous amounts of pain from the pitocin.  
I made it clear in all of my prenatal appointments that I wanted to try for an unmedicated birth but wasn't firmly set on that.  I received absolutely no push-back from any of the midwives I saw.[/quote]

Same here, my midwives ordered my induction (via cytotec), epidural, and pitocin during my labor.

Personally, I wasn't that set on having a med free birth.  I went with midwives because I'd never had a particularly good experience with an OB/GYN and knew that I would want more emotional support from my medical provider during my pregnancy than I thought I'd get from an OB.  Right or wrong, midwives have a reputation for being more emotionally supportive to patients than OBs do. [/quote]

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