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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know, I am the pp who had an epidural with my first but didn't detect judgment from Whitney. I went with Arlington Women's Center for my first because I planned to deliver with Karen King (their midwife). However, I still met with all the OBs, and ended up delivering with the on-call covering doctor whom I had never met! About 3/4 through the pregnancy when I started asking questions about L&D and complications, etc. I was super bummed that I basically got told, don't worry about that; we can talk about that later...I knew I should have switched then, but I didn't. Then when my 36 week u/s showed low fluid, I asked, "what should I do, what does it mean?" And I was told, "nothing, just keep hydrated, and come back at 39 weeks" Guess what? I would have appreciated being told, come back at 39 weeks cause we're gonna induce you if it's still low, and here are the drugs we might use. Cause instead, I got hustled to L&D, given cytotec without being told what it was, and had a nurse/OB combo which bordered on negligent in terms of my care. If cytotec weren't hella effective, I certainly would have ended up with a c section. As it was, I nearly delivered over the toilet with no supervision. It sucked. I certainly hope the GW midwifes standard of care is better than that, although I can't vouch for it yet. None of this isn't to say there aren't great OBs out there. [b]But there are a ton of sub par ones as well.[/b] [/quote]

Who are the sub par OBs in your direct experience?[/quote]
Masel was the worst. She was the one who told me in the 2nd trimester that it was too early to talk about L&D and the one to brush off my questions after the first low fluid u/s. And Biggs (who had just started) was the one who hustled me to L&D with no explanation. Not to mention at the time, the pregnant u/s technician was tearing up as she told me I had almost no fluid left. (Don't recall her name). That didn't scare me too much as my baby was still quite active, and growing, and I really didn't believe the diagnosis. Crowther, who induced me, was awesome, but she should have told me more about cytotec (she just told me she was giving me something to ripen my cervix, and since at the hospital class they require, they discuss only cervidil, I didn't know enough to ask). Crowther's shift was immediately over, and I was in the care of Jane Piness who checked on me exactly 0 times during 10 hours of labor. A resident gave my my second dose of cytotec, and my nurse, Marissa either had never seen cytotec used, or also mistakenly thought I was on cervidil (maybe Piness did too), because the only thing she said to me (during and after transition!!!) was that I was waiting til the morning to start pitocin. She yelled at me when I told her I couldn't stop pushing (I though I was pooping) and had to run to get Piness, who la de da strolled in and delivered my baby, as well as the news that I certainly did not, in fact, have low fluid. Healthy mom, healthy baby, but shit they could'a run that ship a little tighter.[/quote]

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