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[quote=Anonymous]It’s a little easier to get a response when you lined up your OB first before getting pregnant and have a preconception visit. But you are where you are. You need to decide what matters to you most. For most women it’s having a great hospital, and having an OB versus a midwife. We are lucky to have some great hospitals in DC to choose from, but each have benefits and drawbacks. Personally, I hated GW - it was a busy, crazy, urban teaching hospital and they were understaffed and I hated having the troop of residents coming into my room during my labor. So for my second I chose Sibley, which was not a teaching hospital, which I loved. The care there was excellent and the hospital is quiet and the nursing staff were great. The only downside of Sibley is it doesn’t have the highest level NICU but I was high risk and they handled me and my baby’s
Complications easily and I felt confident that they could handle basically everything except a majorly premature birth (their neonatologists also work at Georgetown which had the highest level NICU). WHC is another massive, urban, teaching hospital. Georgetown is also a teaching hospital but it’s Catholic. So is a Holy Cross. So you have the Catholic crap to deal with, eg they won’t tie your tubes after a C section for instance. If you want a midwife, WHC and GW have groups.

Another consideration is practice size. Do you want a solo provider, small group (there’s not a lot of these), large group, or hospital group. I’ve done all three. WHC, Georgetown, and GW MFA are all massive group practices affiliated with the hospitals. They can be difficult to schedule with and you will often feel like a number because of their size. If you want to feel like you have a doctor who cares and is following you, they are generally not the best practices for that. If you want to deliver at Sibley you’ll need to find a group that delivers there like CWC, Bloom, etc. Personally, I loved DeSouza for my second because his office called me back, I got appointments easily and always with him, and his office handled all my tests and issues easily, and he called me back when I had issues or bad test results.

You also need to think about who you want to deliver your baby. At large groups, you get who is on call. Smaller groups same issue. Solo providers you will most likely get them
But not always.

Also, talk to moms and friends, they can make recs too.

Good luck. 
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