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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I delivered with the GW midwives and they are very low intervention- and they told me up front that I would not be allowed to go past 39 weeks. They also said my IVF and my age were 2 strikes for risk and if anything else presented they had to switch me to OB care.

I don’t understand why IVF is automatically a risk once the pregnancy is established, but I appreciated their transparency and honesty about what risks they were willing to take on and which they were not. [/quote]

40 is full term, why would you not be allowed to go beyond 39?[/quote]

This doesn't sound right to me and I used GW midwives. They had a LOT of rules but I went to almost 42 weeks and delivered without intervention. I didn't conceive through IVF but I was I was AMA and had some complications during pregnancy that resulted in more testing and visits late in my pregnancy. But the didn't seem fazed by how late I went (they were starting to talk about potentially inducing by the time I went into labor, but it was like "if this goes another 3 days, we need to keep a close eye and might have to induce" because at that point the baby was very late.

Is there some statistic on IVF pregnancies and term length that would indicate this? Just surprised to hear this from GW midwives given their general vibe (it wound up actually being too restrictive for me and if I did it again, I'd use the midwives program at Washington Hospital Center instead).[/quote]

I delivered with the midwives at GW and had an IVF pregnancy AND AMA but they never suggested but mentioned the Arrive study. I went to 42 weeks - they didn’t recommend me going past that date but definitely didn’t recommend 39 weeks. [/quote]

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