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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have not birthed with Wisdom, but I was seeing them when I was pregnant in the winter of 2011 and spring of 2012 (3 miscarriages). I saw Whitney for my confirmation appointment of the first pregnancy, and I actually really liked her. At the time, my older child was almost 2. She was born in a birth center with midwives and no pain medication. I did not find Whitney to be dogmatic at all, and I strongly believe that the reason for her mellowness with me was that it wasn't my first time with the kind of experience she's shooting for. I am already familiar with the midwifery model of care. I'd already had an unmedicated vaginal birth. I had already breastfed one child for more than a year. I was already doing yoga and cutting out all the stuff that she wants you to cut out on the diet. This all came up because she asked me how I'd heard about her practice, and I mentioned the 3 people I know who had been clients of hers (not all of them ended up birthing with her and not all of them ended up birthing naturally) as well as my previous experience with midwifery. That pretty much forestalled any sort of lecture.

Obviously it would be better if no one got lectured, but I distinctly got the impression that if she is dogmatic, it's because she's very used to hearing the kind of questions that get posed on this board all the time about her practice - who does she think she is that she can tell you you HAVE to follow a specific diet, what if you WANT an epidural, etc. etc. I see a lot of complaining about the directives that the various midwifery practices issue w/r/t health issues like GD or psychiatric issues, diet issues, weight gain issues. The reality is that most medical personnel will suggest that you lose weight if you are overweight. Many practices will be concerned if you have out of control GD and a long history of psych issues. There are rules that have to be followed in all those cases for most practices. I think Wisdom gets a particularly bad reputation on those issues because they publicize their policies a lot better than most places.

I have since stopped TTC #2, but when I'm ready to get back on the horse, I would be thrilled to go back to Whitney and her colleagues. Over the course of my 3 miscarriages, I met with Whitney, Laura, Nora, Marsha, Kimya and Hannah (who was a student - is she still?). I liked them all very much.[/quote]

A PP here. This is reassuring to a degree. I had my first unmedicated, so perhaps I too will be "spared" the lecture. However, I have to say, the risk out stuff is strange to me. I'm not saying the more serious things, obesity, etc, and I have NO problem with anyone wanting to see a midwife needing to realize that this is not a place where you get an epidural. If you want an epidural, you have a major misunderstanding about what the midwifery care model entails. However, I bristle at the GD is the mom's fault thing (what? if so, I don't even need to take the test, since I'm thin, exercise, and almost never eat sugar or refined carbs, and didn't have it with my first PG, and had a 6.5 lb baby, but then what about all the evidence that says it has nothing to do with that and ANYONE can get it?) And as far as history of depression, I think her policy is any history of treatment. I don't get that. It seems REALLY exclusionary. I don't have any history of depression at all, so this is not a personal thing. but what does that have to do with anything? If I went to an OB and got depressed, he would refer me out, same as she should. [/quote]

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