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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I used the GW midwives and although I can't wholeheartedly recommend them (and likely won't use them again), I want to reply to the 'axe to grind' comment above - prenatal care with midwives vs. OBs (I switched at 16 weeks) was night and day.  No feeling like I was boring them or bothering them with my questions, no feeling like they had something better to do or they were internally rolling their eyes at FTM questions.  And no unnecessary tests (not all OBs do this, but Reiter Hill definitely did to me).  If I could find a way to only use midwives for prenatal care and deliver with an OB that would be my gold standard.[/quote]

Okay but wouldn’t the eye rolling just be a bad OB? I mean doctors vary but I’ve never felt like that from a doctor. I don’t see why a midwife would be magically nicer. And I wouldn’t know the first thing about what tests are necessary. [/quote]

I can't speak for all OBs but Reiter Hill is a big practice, I saw maybe 6 people, and had bad experiences (from ignoring questions, to just leaving and saying they had to go without asking if I had any questions, to the rudeness that made me feel like they were rolling their eyes, to telling me "I'm not really good at reading sonograms, I'm not sure why they asked me to do this" when I was called in for an extra appointment to discuss -- something they saw on the sonogram) with every one.

I had a gynecologist at that practice I loved, but she doesn't deliver.

If I have another kid I'll be looking for a new practice because I didn't have a good delivery experience with the midwives and want to avoid a teaching hospital.

You seem very skeptical of midwives, so you shouldn't use them.  But I'm not sure why you're so consistently pushing back on anything positive anyone says about them.  It's not magic that midwives are more compassionate and spend longer in appointments, it's the Midwife Model of Care, which has a different focus than OBs.[/quote]

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