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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m pushing back on the idea that you are saying midwives are more compassionate than doctors. Midwives are individuals. So are doctors. All have the capacity to be kind and compassionate, or not. I’ve met some midwives who are wonderful and some who are not. I’ve met some doctors who are incredible and some who are not. The broad generalization that a midwife would provide a kinder and more compassionate experience than an obstetrician is inaccurate. People have a range of experiences with all providers. Pushing someone towards midwifery care by saying that the midwife will care more and spend more time with you is nonsense. It’s a great argument to try and push women to the midwifery model, but it’s just not accurate. Plenty of obstetricians are caring and spend lots of time with their patients. Maybe the typical slotted time for a midwife visit is longer than for an OB if you’re just going by how their time is billed but plenty of OBs adjust their schedules to spend more time with patients than the time slots they are typically given for appointments. And unlike midwives, OBs are not midlevel providers and they can handle all kinds of complications in birth, which midwives cannot. Oh and most OBs are women nowadays anyway. [/quote]

I'm not pushing anyone toward anything; I said explicitly that I will not be using midwives if I deliver again.  Your reaction seems very disproportionate to the actual conversation, mostly because you are ranting against a great number of things that were never said.[/quote]

This is what I’m responding to. All of my comments were in response to this inaccurate generalization you made. The midwife model of care doesn’t make a midwife any more compassionate than a physician. There are midwives who are far more medical than OBs and vice cersa. It comes down to the individual provider and the practice philosophy, and we are lucky In DC to have many great options of OBs and midwives who support women in their birth preferences.

“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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