Hey Rach,

I'm booked in Private with my own Ob. Figured if something does go wrong and I do need a C/S then I want to know the person operating on me.

I also want a natural birth - I would suggest calling a few hospitals and asking if they do tours. The one I am going with does a tour ofthe birthing suite and rooms every Sunday - you can go along and ask all the questions you want. I've been twice - once before my Calm Birth classes and once after to ask more questions that related directly to how I want to have my baby and if they had any problems with the techniques I would be using.

I also found it really hard to know what to do and felt REALLY stressed about making a booking so early on, but I am feeling really good about things now.

We have private health insurance and figured why not go private when we are covered for it. The only thing we can't get any cash back on is one payment to out Ob of $1900. The rest is fairly well covered by medicare and our insurance - especially because we were over the medicare safety net.

Anyway - I think next time we may look a bit more into homebirth and birthing centers, but for my first precious baby I am happy that we are going private/Ob (even if it is only for my own piece of mind)

Good Luck.
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