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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I delivered at WHC with midwives and I'm certain I would have been given Pitocin (and maybe even had an emergency c section) if I'd had an OB.  My water broke at 6am and I didn't deliver until 630 am the next day.  My mom was induced with me for that reason (too much time since broken water) and it did lead to emerg c section.  I am so grateful to Beth and the team for allowing me to labor naturally.[/quote]

I think it’s great that you had a positive experience but I thinks it’s categorically unfair for you and other posters to say, an OB would not have let me do x, y, or a. You don’t know that. You have no way of knowing that. You didn’t deliver with an OB. The fact that you prefer a midwife to an Ob shows your preference but it’s not fair to assume an OB provider would not be as supportive of natural childbirth as a midwife. Most OB practices in the DMV are very supportive of unmedicated vaginal birth so to try and promote a narrative that they are not is irritating. [/quote]

I'm the PP with the 60 hour induction. After the fact, I spoke with two different doctors (friends/relatives). Neither is an OB, but both did rotations in the obstetrics unit of a hospital during their trainings. They both said, unprompted, that they were told not to let an induction go that long, and both teams they worked with (in different areas of the country) would have given me a c-section.

Now - maybe there are risks to a longer induction, so per another posters point, maybe you want to err on the side of caution, have an OB, and in my case, get the c-section. But I am confident that an OB would have given me a c-section, and while I guess I can't "know" - I have some real solid evidence to that effect. [/quote]

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