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.
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