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Posted by gabbie427

We too loved our midwife!!! She delivers in the hospital though. We were so close during my pregnancy and she listened to my needs, concerns, feelings, and she believed me when I said I knew my body and what was going on with it. I was so happy because I saw an OB doctor twice and hated the way he treated me! She even called me personally on my cell phone several times while I was in the city sitting with my mom as she endured chemo for her cancer to see how my mom was and how I was handling it.

Noah even shares her birthday!!! So we send her a bday card and a pic of Noah every year! If and when we have another child, we will definately use her again. She became a wonderful friend and confidant!

God's Blessings,
Amy Jo

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Posted by dukygurl

I just want to tell you that I appreciate your commitment to what you value! Not just in child birth but in your way of life. Most people I know, myself even sometimes, seem to claim one thing and do another. I will definitely try and get my hands on that book for shannon, she wants to do everything natural but is afraid because her age is more than it was with her first baby....she is only 33. I have told her that I will do my best to find material so that she can be educated for birth and will not labor so much in pain and fear..I love the medical stuff don't you? I LOVE learning about these things. I think that you are a great encouragement. That particular book helped me out a great deal when I was pregnant with Jorri, I was very well informed thanks to you! I want another baby every time you post about pregnancy...there is a tiny chance we will see what God chooses to do with that. I am praying for a son. God gave so many women sons in the bible because they prayed! I am sure it can happen for us!

have a blessed day!

Thinking about my OB- he did not deliver either of my girls-did not care about my desires for labor...and the doc who did deliver Jabin was a jerk, he basically told me to "shut up and push" I am glad that I am in a state that allows midwives, though I would probaly want to labor in a hospital even still...who knows!

Edited by dukygurl on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 09:15

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Posted by morningsunshine

the midwife who delivered my two girls ROCKS!!!! I absolutely love her. I told her (both times) that I was going to get pregnant right away again just so I can come visit her! LOL!
unfortunately, we moved, and I could drive the 90 minutes both ways to have her, but I do not want to drive that much. So we are trying a new midwife this time, and at home this time (Becky delivers in a birth center). the at-home part is what has convinced me. especially compared to driving 90 min each way!

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Posted by Daisyblend

Amy Jo,
That's just like a midwife! I love it. Thanks for sharing. I wouldn't have a problem delivering in the hospital if I had a midwife, someone I could trust (someone to help me fight off arrogant nurses). While I was pregnant with Royal, we saw a doctor in Arkansas, two hours away from us. Dr. Shirolyn Moffet. She's a former midwife, apparently becoming a doctor so she could be more of a help to women. She and her husband had their four children at home without assistance. She was wonderful! She totally understood my situation and desire for natural birth. One thing I noticed and loved about her office was the lack of birth-control advertisements plastered everywhere. Little things. --- We toured the hospital and I found it quite to my liking. Very small and quiet, with nurses totally on board with Dr. Moffet's non-intrusive methods. And big tubs in the bathrooms, if I remember correctly. I've never seen a birth center, but I'm thinking this was probably as close as a hospital could get. Actually, I believe she was trying to start a birth center in Joplin, MO, which would have been only an hour away from us. Anyway, I could definitely see myself delivering there comfortably (as comfortable as labor can be, you know). But since my labors are so quick and I'm such a homebody and Royal was due in the dead of winter with all the icky weather that could bring, we were still planning on birthing at home. She was cool with that. Then we moved here! Oh well. The Lord knows our need.

Edited by Daisyblend on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 at 09:27

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Posted by Citygal

I had a wonderful midwife for my first three. She was a grandmother, a christian who went to our church, and became like my own mother to me - nothing was a problem - she'd come at all hours of the night and day when I was having trouble breastfeeding my firstborn. We always kept in touch even when I wasn't pregnant and she and her husband became part of the family. I even used to go and stay with them sometimes. I miss her now we're not living in that town anymore. I have a nice new midwife here, but Jenny was one 'out of the box'.
Rachel from NZ

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Posted by Schatzi

A very interesting post...because all my kids were born in the hospital, I have never met a mid-wife but I have read wonderful things about those who have chosen that for a profession...truly a gift.

Connie

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Posted by sarajeen

I loved the midwife I had with my first two, a CNM who delivered at the hospital. She was fantastic, and I was sad to move away from her. However, our doctor now is also great. He is very open to whatever I ask for or need, and the nurses at the hospital are great. He does have two clinics, and the one closer to us has rotten nurses, so we drive the extra 10 miles to his second clinic because the nurses there are great. He's a very friendly guy- the type who jumps up on the bed to sit beside you while doing the ultrasound, asks for and remembers every little detail about your family, and always encourages us to have more kids. He doesn't push anything on you that you don't want- he keeps suggesting that I just have my kids at home since I always have a short, easy labor. Last time, he told me that he would be fine with me just coming in to get my bloodwork done, my Rhogam shot, and an ultrasound near the end, rather than the full schedule of prenatal appointments. He's all I could ask for in a doctor, and I'd recommend him to anyone.
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Sarajeen, That's just what we're looking for in a doc! Too bad ya'll are in the opposite corner of the state. Sounds fantastic. I'm trying to get ahold of the not-so-great doctor I had with Royal to see about having just the bloodwork, RhoGAM and an ultrasound near the end, too. She's not at all friendly toward homebirth but I thought since we have a history (albeit bad - is that like bad credit being better than no credit?) and we're connected via our husbands' work, maybe she'd do just those things and spare me having to start fresh with someone else. -- And those nurses make all the difference, don't they??
~K~

Edited by Daisyblend on Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 09:45

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