Doc, you win. And rock. You wick.

Or something. Yay for TT!

Every unit needs more docs like that!

I hope this OB decides to go into teaching!

Amen. If there is a problem I’d rather push and be told to than get help with instruments or surgery, but if all is fine I say be patient. It feels better to push with the urge.

Oh I wish there were more doctors like this. Wonderful! Fingers crossed that this doctor passes on that confidence and approach.

Wow. This doc sounds awesome and I wish they all were like this – instead of ignoring the truth, let’s embrace it, please!!

In all three of my labors, I never had the urge to push.

Best Thursday submission EVER!

Very cool.

Three letters: OMG!

Can we clone this doc????

This was my submission )

I had a very horrible 2nd birth (c-section w/o anesthesia) and really wasn’t ever planning on having anymore children. I was shocked when I found out I was pregnant (first 2 were ‘fertility’ babies) and had decided to labor at home with a wonderful midwife and doula.

My pregnancies are considered high risk for a blood clotting disorder I have, but once I’m in labor it’s a non-issue (babies coming out). So I was seeing a Perinatologist along with the Midwife. The plan was if everything went ok I would deliver at home, and if something happened I had a backup.

Well at my 39 week check up my amnio fluid was all but gone, and after talking it over with my Midwife it was decided the best thing would be to be induced and deliver with the Perinatologist.

You can imagine not only my dissapointment but my horror and fear of something happening like it did last time.

I had a panic attack when I got to the hospital and I wasn’t sure if I would be able to do it…well Dr. Wickstrom (St. Luke’s in KCMO) came in and told me that she wasn’t going to do ANYTHING until I was ready. She even hand monitored my babies heart beat for 45 minutes once when she sensed I wasn’t ready for a fetal scalp monitor.

She was in my room a lot that night and talked to me and made me feel very comfortable. She was up to date with all her studies, and even told nurses and that Anesthesiologist when they were wrong.

*side note – yes I did end up doing an epidural because the pitocin contractions were too much for my body I was shacking and throwing up*

My successful VBAC welcomed my 3rd baby on Halloween this past year. He & Dr. Wickstrom have been the most healing things that have happened since my c-section, even though I did a lot of therapy.

Now we’re planning on adding to our family like we’d originally wanted, and while I still hope for a home birth I know that if I have to be in the hospital I have someone on my side!!!

Hey I just had a thought after posting this – I read these comments mostly from OB’s and wonder how on earth they are so far from current on the latest studies, when my High Risk Dr. was basically a midwife in a surgical suit.

I wonder if regular OB’s are just so complacent that they don’t think they have to change anything they do, they’ve been doing it this way and getting paid for X amount of years, why change??

While my High Risk Doctor was very up to date with everything. I wondered if maybe the difference was she was used to seeing High Risk pregnancies and it’s all about the numbers with us. If we already have X% of miscarring, or having difficult pregnancies, the Dr. wants to give us the best shot possible.

I don’t know it was just a thought I had, what do you think?