Would you give birth in a midwifery led unit?

[BellyBelly]

Again though, midwifery led care does not mean a hospital full of midwives. It means continuity of care from a midwife or a team of midwives who you meet at pre-natal checks.

[Visitor7]

Like I said in my previous post, I had excellent care from the midwives at the hospital here. But to explain further just how much they do:
~ pre-natal - we see the midwives for our routine checks at the hospital. When I was pg with Emily, I was fortunate enough to see the same midwife.
~ labour/birth - like I said, I had the same midwife with me from the time I initially got there, until I was transferred to the maternity ward after having bub.
~ post-natal - A midwife/trained lactation consultant came out to visit me once I went home. This is offered to all patients for up to one month postnatal.

So in both my labours, I never even met an Ob. The midwives were able to deal with everything they were faced with. Yes, it was a straight forward birth both times, however the ob's on duty weren't too far away if there were complications.
I'm not sure what other hospitals/birth centres are like, but I would like to think they are all like this, and offer this great service from midwives.
There is also talk of building a birth centre next to the hospital here in Cairns.

[EmnM]

I was lucky enough to have the best of both - I had an ob who believed that women are more than capable of birthing babies (as long as everything is going normally) and had total trust in the midwives at the private hospital I went through for both my beautiful girls. I mostly had midwife care for my first child and due to complications of diabetes my wonderful ob was very reasuring and followed a 'wait and see' approach to managing it rather than going in guns blazing with blood tests, extra scans etc. In the end he wasn't there, just my midwife, husband, dd1 and doula. It was awesome. My lovely ob then came in about 1hr later to put in some stitches and greet dd2. I can't believe how lucky I am to have had such an empowering experience with my ob and midwives. It seems that not many in here have had fantastic experiences with ob care which is sad.

[MUMMY4LIFE]

My OB from my 1st pregnancy, wins it over a midwife (sorry).