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[quote=Anonymous]Actually my experience with midwives was that some of them
Are very tough love and callous, and for a few their checks were horrific. My awful midwife delivery with my first baby was so painful and so bad. I was suffering immeasurably (I was in active labor for over 24 hours with a malpositioned baby and back labor) to the point that I was dreaming about opening the window or escaping to the roof and leaping to my death to end the contractions that literally felt like drowning. I was stunned by the lack of empathy for my pain and continued encouragement from them to labor unmedicated. It felt like I was the bull in the bullfight slowly being murdered while they all watched and cheered. Needless to say I had PTSD from the whole experience - not diagnosed by the midwives of course - they told me to be grateful I had a healthy baby - but a year later. They are one of the reasons I opted for a male OB (far more empathetic and compassionate) and a scheduled C section for my second birth. It was
Hands down a great choice for me and I did not
Have a single cervical check by him the entire pregnancy and I only had one or two pelvic exams. So this idea that other posters have about midwives being so great is not always true, by a long shot. [/quote]

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