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? for HSV ladies re: clinic for women
hey ladies,
that last post got me thinking...
i need to switch docs, but just haven't gotten around to it. i'm not pg, but dh and i were thinking about ttc sometime next yr, and i'd like to have a doc that knows my history. anyway, i was looking at the website for the clinic for women, and i was really interested. they have a certified nurse midwife on staff (which i really liked since i was interested in going the natural maybe home birth). but anyway, their site did have much info, so i was hoping i could get some info from you girls. do they deliver babies in the hospital or is it like a birthing center too? i chart my cycles, and every doc i've been to has made fun of me. so i've been trying to find docs that are supportive of charting, etc. are they?
i apologize in advance if my question don't make any sense. but thanks for the help! 
Re: ? for HSV ladies re: clinic for women
Hey.
I love the clinic for women. It is the only place I have ever been so I don't have anything to compare it to. I know my dr. (rushing) delivers in the hospital. I am not sure about it being a birthing center as well. The whole staff is great though. I highly recommend it. I am sure the drs are aware of charting, etc.
Also you asked in the other post where it is located.....
I think they have 3 locations but I always go to the downtown Hville location. Its beside the Hville Hospital on Adams street, Suite 300
thanks for the info! so when you make your appt do you make if for a certain doc (dr. rushings in your case)? i just ask b/c it said on their site that they rotate the docs so that all the docs are familar with the patients. i wasn't sure if i can call and make an appt for a particular doc or is it just whoever is there when you are there?
FYI - midwives are not legally "allowed" to deliver babies in Alabama. Alabama has a very "western" view of L&D (says our L&D nurse/childbirth instructor) - so even though there is a midwife in the practice, she's not a part of the OB rotation and can't deliver.
I *think* (but don't quote me) that home delivery is also "illegal" here.
Other than the OB rotation when you're pregnant (weeks 16 - 32 ish) you'd see your own dr.
and in regards to charting - I charted and I had really long cycles when I got pregnant. They (Dr. DeLisle) actually encouraged my friend to chart after her miscarriage to see what her cycles were doing.
I was glad they looked at my chart because if not, I would have been measuring about 2 weeks behind but with the back up of the chart, they didn't freak out or anything.
thx for the info re: home birth. i thought i had read something like that (about home birthing being illegal). which is why i was wondering if it was also a birthing center, and why i thought it was interesting that they had a certified midwife. i don't know if that is common practice.
it's good to know that they also are educated/encourage charting. i've been charting for close to 5 yrs, and my first obgyn would seriously pick on me during visits b/c of it. she was nice and all, but i hated that she did that. and my current doc asked me "what is charting?" so i figured i better try and find someone that at least knows what it is.
does anyone know if the docs are supportive of natural birth (at a hospital)? i tend to be a little "hippie" sometimes, so i am trying to find a doc that is ok with that.
thx again!
Yeah, just choose which dr you want to see and make an appt with that dr.....and then you rotate later on and see all of them.
DUH I knew home births were illegal. My freind tried to deliver at home and got alot of lip about it.
I'm from Oregon - land of hippyville - It really is sad how one sided alabama is here
That's true, because its not not considered safe to have a home birth, and delivering a baby is considered "practicing medicine" which only doctors are allowed to do.
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FYI:
http://law.justia.com/alabama/codes/24046/34-19-6.html
http://law.justia.com/alabama/codes/24046/34-19-8.html
Yea, says they can deliver babies if a physician is there to supervise.
I'm confused about why someone would rather have a midwife than an actual doctor? Will someone clarify?
hey girl,
well i'm not pg, and can't speak for anyone else, but as for me, after watching 'the business of being born' (a documentary about birth in the US), it made me really question the way things are done. i think sometimes (definitely not in all cases) docs/nurses will start intervening on the birth too early with drugs, and i think sometimes complications can arise from that. midwives are trained to assist the mother with a natural birth, and i really like the 1 on 1 attention that they offer even after the baby is born. for me personally i would like to try a natural birth, and so having a birth with a midwife really appealed to me.
Well I had a Natural Birth not by choice but because we were in the middle of no where land in CA where the other anestisologist sp? was in surgery, so I didn't get an epidural. And I have witnessed 3 births with friends that have had dr and nurse intervention. I know that with the 3 I witnessed NOT speaking for others but they were so drugged that they knew nothing else that was going on, could hardly push, with the second one the dr had to use the suction cups to get the baby out because she couldn't push him out.
My reason to not want an epidural - (but like I said, if I get in the situation and it's just too much to handle... I'm OPEN to one) but I didn't want the epidural because I wanted to feel what was going on. I think if you can physically control your movements, you'll less likely to need medical intervention like episiotomies, suction cups, forceps, etc.
Going into this though I was all up for the epidural - until i went to the childbirth class and saw a model of a pelvic bone and the L&D nurse demonstrated how the baby fits through... I went all crunchy after that and had this
like "ooooh, so THAT is what we're made to do!!!"
I will probably never watch that movie, bc I would want all the pain meds I could get, and I don't want to be discouraged from getting them. Its sort of like fast food restaurants - I occasionally frequent them so I never ever want to watch a behind the scenes show, bc I realize they are disgusting, I just ignore that fact. lol