Ourlux, you would more than likely see midwives for your pg care and the Dr only a few times is my understanding of it, but I'm not 100% on the details. but essentially yes, you are in the care of the midwives for the duration of the labour and then they usually call the Dr when it's 'head on view' (in my cases anyway, except for the last two - #3 because I was starting to have some trouble and #4 because he was already in the hospital, so they were there earlier). I suppose you could request that he not be present in the room unless absolutely needed.