Midwife Vs. OBGYN

I think I know the office you'd be going to. My cousin went with that group of midwives and was very happy with them, but I had the same drawback when I heard that from her. She did, however, tell me that there are midwives that have their own practice and will see you on a regular basis in other offices in the SLC area. I haven't found one that I'm comfortable with, though. I'm still hunting for a good doctor down here. I may have found one, but I'm still not sure.

I had a midwife with my last baby and I absolutely loved it. It was a man and he was just awesome. He only delivered in Hospitals and did everything for me and was totally supportive of anything that I wanted to do. He also did everything in his power to keep me from having a C-Section... unfortunately, I still had to have one, but he was the attending for it and I still went to him for all of my postpartum checks. The other cool thing about him was that all of my ultrasounds were included in his regular fees and he did ultrasounds everytime I went in and made a DVD of it that I got after she was born. I didn't realize what a great peace of mind that was until I got pregnant again. I'm 15 weeks and still haven't seen an ultrasound and when I was with him, I saw my baby 4 times and knew the sex. I loved it.

I really want someone closer to me so I'm not going with him anymore, but if you didn't mind driving to South Ogden, he is amazing... and he has a partner that is a woman who runs about the same. He delivers in Ogden Regional and McKay Dee and he may still deliver in Davis Hospital, but I'm not sure. His name is Guy Cox and his number is ###-###-####.

FYI I decided to go to him when I lived up there because I was having some problems and had a friend who worked in his office. She told him a little about me and he told her to have me come in and he'd take a look. I went in and he did a vaginal ultrasound and took about 30 to 45 minutes with me and he didn't even charge me at all for the visit. I was floored. Anyway, that's my two cents. Good luck!

I used an Midwife with both of my kids and the office I went to I always saw the same doctor. I wouldn't want to have someone come in to deliver my baby that I had never seen before either. I went to OBGYN Associates which is across the street from St Marks Hospital. My midwife was Danielle Demeter and she was awesome!

Wow. I was a little shocked to read that you'd be seeing different midwives. I've never heard of such a concept with midwives, but with OB/GYNS it can be common practice to do just that. I like the idea of a midwife, but always felt more comfortable with an medical doctor just for the fact that if there was a complication, it wouldn't be a stranger delivering my child. Both my OB's were doctors that preferred to deliver their own patients instead of whoever was on-call in their practice which I loved (and they both delivered my children). My first doctor was Kimberly Moreland at Jordan Valley (South Valley Womens Center) and I love her and was sad to change. My second (we had to change for insurance reasons, too) was Kathryn Walker at Alta View who was very business like during visits, but did an outstanding job during the delivery which more than made up for any lack of "friendliness" during visits.

Good luck with the pregnancy. The second one just FLIES by!

I personally like the idea of one caregiver my whole pregnancy and not jumping around to different caretakers. One person who knows me and my unborn baby. Who can answer my questions and I don't get the same story over and over from the different people I see. And if something does go wrong I have a doctor there. If you do choose a midwife they always have a doctor that covers them and there is,depending where you deliver) a doc at the hospital. I did however deliver with a midwife my last baby because I delivered at a different hospital than I was planning that my MD didn't go to (oops)The midwife was great and worked with me my entire labor (which was VERY fast) and it was the best labor and birth I have had. She supported my desire to go natural..and I don't think my OB would have done that as much. Good luck it is a hard choice.

I have uses both. I love the one on one I got from my midwife. I have heard that this is the practice with some midwife, but mine was there the whole time so was my sister in laws midwife. Call a different office and ask if this is their practice. I had to use a doctor for my last baby. I had Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. Therefore, we did not have the choice of continuing to using a midwife. However, I loved the care I got form Dr Irron out of cottonwood. It was different then a midwife but so was my pregnancy