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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jindc]..and GD is a big deal.  I was really worried about it (had a first tri test for it because  I am heavier) and wish people took it seriously. It can have lasting issues for mom and baby, and a doctor should be your provider to ensure everything is going well with the GD. [/quote]

They don't risk out every GD patient from what I've heard, though. They do three "strikes" - so GD plus history of depression plus expecting twins, for example (twins is probably a bad example - does Wisdom do twin births?), will get you risked out.[/quote]

Wow.  Am I the only one who thinks this sounds somewhat punitive and offensive?[/quote]

The practice or what I wrote? Midwives tend not to take high risk patients. I was risked out by Birthcare at 30 weeks (for very specious reasons). The reasoning still pisses me off, but if you're a better candidate for birth with an OB, they're better off transferring your care. [/quote]

I'm a wisdom patient and I'm fairly happy. I appreciate that they will NOT risk you out for things like twins, or a breech birth, de facto. On the other hand, they will risk you out for GD, or for hypertension, etc. (The latter being much more serious). For GD, I think they risk you out for a combo of three reasons:

1. You get risked out and go to OB's a CYA but without any pain for GW, since you just get risked out to other GW doctors and your money still stays there. Neat trick. 
[b]2. Whitney believes that a GD diagnosis is proof that you did not follow her diet. [/b]
3. They worry that GD and the big babies it can sometimes cause will cause more women to want epidurals and need c-sections. While this is a legitimate possibility, I think their risking you out has way less to do with whether or not it's "safe" for you to deliver with them (you're in a hospital surrounded by top notch OB's steps away) and more to do with keeping their c-section stats as low as they can.

Fair enough...or is it? [/quote]

Really?  Does she have any medical training at all?  What an idiot.   :roll:[/quote]

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