Morning sickness nighmare... 76merr1 Sorry to hear this... If it's any consolation, a lot of us have horrible first trimesters... For coping with constant...
Ericka Kammerer Naomi Smith in distance)
DC, definitely.
There you go; in fact, in the book she talks about the hospital she first gave birth in having special, pretty-but-impractical birthing rooms that looked like hotel rooms (complete with queen sized standard beds - how useful), that got no use at all and were eventually closed down.
We were living in Tacoma Park a couple of summers ago and I spent some time with a local mom's circle; they seemed very earthy to me - but then, TP is atypical for the DC area!
last year births hospitals). More only nursing who have handled obs for afterwards. seeing obs) problem everything, over the
With my first, my GP who didn't deliver babies said he could refer me to a GP who did deliver babies, a family practice group at one of the baby-delivering hospitals, or a midwife who did home and hospital births. He specifically said he would not be referring me to an OB unless I was high risk. So, I went with the family practice group. This time around I'm in a different area, and went with a GP who delivers babies. FWIW, I don't have a gynecologist or a pediatrician, either; unless something really unexpected comes up that requires specialized treatment, we just see a family doctor for everything. I think culturally that's more the norm in Canada; most of the women I know here who have had babies recently went either with a GP or a midwife.
As I say, I found Misconceptions interesting because my own experience with hospitals has been so pro-natural childbirth, so open to natural, labouring-mother-led labours, that I (wrongly) buttumed that that was the norm across North America "in this day and age."
With my first, one doctor at the meet-the-doctors night (we were with a call group at that time) said, "we're lazy! Unless things suddenly go bad, we're there to watch, not to get involved. Once the head's delivered, we just check for a nuchal cord and then dad can catch the baby." They also suggested that dads might want to take their shirts off so they could have immediate skin-to-skin contact with the babies, as well as the mom. This was the same group that asked me to write a birth plan, recommended that we hire a doula, and recommended excellent "alternative" childbirth education clbuttes, as well.
Based on my own Vancouver experiences, I have a pretty glowing opinion of hospital births, actually!
Book recommendations 73Ericka Kammerer If she up with Naomi Wolf, Smith in the My take on it was that Naomi Wolf went it with a great deal of confidence in the obstetrical profession...
Melania Mom to Joffre (Jan 11, 2003) and #2 (edd May 21, 2005)
