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[quote=Anonymous]It's all kind of luck of the draw, I think, so either choice is fine. I went with the WHC midwives and did not have a good experience because I got unlucky! The midwife was attending multiple births at the same time and was with me very briefly during a protracted and complicated labor. She was not warm or compassionate and her only advice was push harder. After it was evident she was in over her head an OB came and she was no longer present. The OB was amazing and managed to delivery my baby with a vacuum assist after giving me pitocin. The midwife should have asked for medical intervention much sooner but she was too busy with other births it seemed. She provided no post-partum assistance or support to me, I guess because my baby was in the NICU. She just told me I was traumatized while they were stitching me up - helpful! I'll be going with the OBs this next time but really I think you just don't know what's going to happen when you give birth. You don't know who will be on-call and you don't know what will happen during your labor that might make one a better option than the other. Not very useful advice I guess but my experience![/quote]

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