Hi guys,
I'm due 19th Feb & am interested to hear if anyone else has done this before?! Very stressful indeed!
At 26 weeks we almost changed as ob informed us that he induces on the due-date, but after some negotiation, he "allowed" us to go 7 days over.
As my pregnancy progressed, I began to want things at the birth that I hadn't known about or wasn't educated about with my previous birth (DS is 3 on the 22/01/2012). So, after discussing our birth preferences with our ob we were disappointed that he didn't see "eye to eye" with us. After more sleepless nights & a lot of angry/anxious days, I decided I just couldn't have this ob at my birth anymore (DH agreed) so we told him we have decided not to go with him anymore (I was 31 weeks then)- he was thankful that I rang him personally & said he was starting to feel a bit awkward too. So all was good & no hard feelings! But now we had the dilemma of finding an ob or person who would adhere to our birth preferences! We made so many phone calls & tried WCH midwifery group, we saw one ob who was great except she had a hard and fast rule about all of her patients being on the bed facing her when pushing!!! That was not something I felt comftable with! Then we had another appt with a diff doc made, but who I later found out had the highest rate of c-sections in Adelaide so I knew she wasn't the kind of doc we would like to be at our birth either! Finally, after booking in WCH (was going to have bub at Ashford) as a public patient and who I couldn't see for appt until 6 Feb, we found a doc who met our needs! But who may not be there for the birth as he has a lecture he has to be away for for 3 days around my due date! I'm now 35 weeks on Sunday!
Anyone think I'm crazy?!? Lol