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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
Thoughtful Thursday! “…I Have Full Faith In Your Midwife…”
“Well, it looks like you are a great candidate for a VBAC at home if that is what you want to do. I believe everything is going to go exactly the way you hope. I have full faith in your midwife. Call me if you change your mind and I’ll see you after your baby is born for follow-up. Babies are a miracle.” -Family Practice doctor to a mother who was seeing the doctor for bleeding at 8 weeks of pregnancy.
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Said all the right things!
I support your right to choose, I’m here for you if you need my added expertise, I’ll be here for you during and after… Showed respect for midwifery and the miracle of birth, used words of encouragement…
Awesome!
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This is mine.
It did go wonderful!!! This doctor is an unofficial back-up for a homebirth midwife and so encouraging emotionally and spiritually. It took awhile of personal searching to find this doctor, but worth the effort after being turned down for a VBAC earlier due to bogus excuses. When I found him, I also found the inner strength to go for it and do the homebirth. He is our family physician and supports the current pregnancy again for a homebirth. : )
**My bleeding was a subchorionic hematoma that resolved itself.
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Kat Reply:
March 4th, 2010 at 7:56 am (Quote)
Congrats Lynette!
I think if more doctors were like this, and if they in turn required this level of care from the nurses/staff they work with, fewer women would feel driven to homebirth as the only option to be treated like human beings. Those who do choose homebirth wouldn’t fear needing to transfer care to a hospital in an emergency, and those who have to birth in a hospital would never have to feel like they are trapped (as many women I have spoken with expressed as their feeling about birthing in the hospital).
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Krista had this to say,
Mar 4, 2010 @ 12:34 pm (Quote)
That gave me warm fuzzies!
@Kat – I think you hit the nail on the head. And if, instead, more women chose homebirth, at least it would free up doctors so that they can give high-risk women the attention they deserve. It might keep more of them from having CS! I know this takes some from their pocketbooks, but I think when you have a job like that with so much stress, the satisfaction of knowing you did a good job should account for something. I dare say most OBs didn’t get into obstetrics just because it’s a gold mine where you can write your own paycheck by the number of CS and other interventions you can perform. It was, at one point, about the mom and babies.
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WOO HOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! YAAAAAAAY!!! HALLELUJAH, I LOVE IT! WOOO!
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