oh of course, between makes sense! duh!
Christy, maybe you can answer this, i've been talking to my SIL who's about to have her first at the same hospital i went to and we were talking about how expensive it is. For example, the OBGYN i went to at John Flynn hospital was great and i loved the hospital so i will definately go back, but it costs $70 for each visit and then there's a $1500 "planning and management" fee when you're 30 weeks. so depending on medicare you dont get a whole lot back. My health fund covered $3900 of the total $4000 bill for the pleasure of going to john flynn so it wasnt so bad in that respect. ANYWAYS what i want to know is, can you go to a private hospital to have the baby but not use one of the ob's who work there? cos a midwife delivered evie and then my ob came in for all of about 5mins to stitch me up. can you just "hire" (for want of a better word) a midwife to be present at the birth?
does that make sense?