Steph
First congratulations on your pregnancy. Research ha shown that if you choose an OB you are more likely to get more medical interventions that if you choose a Midwife. Brenda Manning made a post recently ( I wish I knew how to put a link here) in her post she said that OB’s consider pregnancy and birth to be abnormal until proven otherwise. Midwives consider pregnancy and birth to be normal until proven otherwise. Your choices may be limited by the hospitals policy. However at a number of hospitals you may only see the OB once or twice if everything is normal. Where I currently work we do not have an OB in town, we have GP’s with some training in OB’s and are able to deliver babies, but in almost every case the Midwife does it all.
It’s a little late here and I am a little sleepy so I hope this makes sense. If you need any more information just post your questions and I will answer what I can