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[quote=Anonymous]I delivered my third baby with P&M.

There’s pros and cons to everything. With #1, I used a solo practitioner and I swear she gave me pitocin in part because her shift was close to ending and she wanted to deliver the baby (NYC) instead of passing me off to whoever the next person was. Even if you use a smaller practice you’re not guaranteed to have your doctor deliver the baby because they do have to take breaks.

For baby #2, I used an OB/gyn practice group but perhaps a smaller practice group than P&M in NJ. They tried to get you to see different doctors too, so you would know the person who delivered your baby. I had seen the person who delivered #2 at least once. I knew who she was.  For this baby I asked for an epidural but he was born before I could get it. He weighed 9 lbs. 6 oz.

Because baby number two weighed 9 lbs. 6 oz. at birth — when I was pregnant with number three and had recently moved to Northern Virginia I decided to try physicians and midwives because I wanted to find a practice that I felt wouldn’t push me to get induced early due to fears of a big baby (and they did not want to induce me early). I would say during the pregnancy I probably saw all different practitioners and I didn’t even feel like I had any one practitioner (and frankly I still don’t feel like I have one practitioner there for my annual check ups).  One thing I liked in particular about physicians and midwives is that it’s such a large practice that they always have a doctor and midwife at the hospital. With the other practices, they did not always have a doctor at the hospital and instead they had to come specifically if you needed it.  As I mentioned, I didn’t have an epidural for baby 2 and while I was in labor with baby 3, I was waiting for it to get as painful as it had with baby 2 as my sign to go to the hospital and it just never got that painful. In the end, I almost had the baby in the car but I managed to make it to the hospital. I called P&M at L & D a few times, talked to the midwife on call about how I was trying not to have the baby in the car and she did have to come down to the car and meet me with the wheelchair because I said I couldn’t walk up.  She ran down, wheeled me up - and the first cervix check was - there’s the head!  The midwife (and a trainee midwife) and the nurse ripped off my clothes I had the baby in 10 minutes and they called it a drive-by delivery.  They did my intake after I deliverEd the baby. Overall I was pleased with my care and I thought they handled it well and were nice and cool about everything.  I also had mastitis for the first time, two times with this baby, and I thought I received good care from them. One of the times with mastitis, I threw up in the trash can in the exam room and the midwife held my hair back and patted my back.

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