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summerBaby10
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can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
My friend is preggo & really doesn't feel comfortable giving birth hooked up to machines laying down on a bed so What other options does she have?
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Re: can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
Water birth may be an option. I believe the Gia (sp?) midwives do this at NUMC.
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Kidsaplenty
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Re: can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
Dale Cook with Gaia midwives. She does water births at Nassau Medical Center, she really helps you with a natural birth. She even does home births, I have had two with her.
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| Posted 8/11/11 8:41 PM |
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summerBaby10
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Re: can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
thank you. How does this work with the obstetrician? Is the ob involved as well with the water birth?
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Kidsaplenty
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Re: can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
Posted by summerBaby10
thank you. How does this work with the obstetrician? Is the ob involved as well with the water birth?
All you need is for the OB to review your info when you arrive in labor, and if all is well you head right to the water birth room with the midwife. After that-no more OB.
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summerBaby10
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Re: can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
Posted by Kidsaplenty
Posted by summerBaby10
thank you. How does this work with the obstetrician? Is the ob involved as well with the water birth?
All you need is for the OB to review your info when you arrive in labor, and if all is well you head right to the water birth room with the midwife. After that-no more OB.
Does the OB have to be affiliated with Nassau Medical Center? Her Dr is affiliated with north Shore in manhassett.
I'm learning some great things! thanks for the info!
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Kidsaplenty
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Re: can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
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Posted by Kidsaplenty
Posted by summerBaby10
thank you. How does this work with the obstetrician? Is the ob involved as well with the water birth?
All you need is for the OB to review your info when you arrive in labor, and if all is well you head right to the water birth room with the midwife. After that-no more OB.
Does the OB have to be affiliated with Nassau Medical Center? Her Dr is affiliated with north Shore in manhassett.
I'm learning some great things! thanks for the info!
No, it's really just whoever is on call that night that will review the contractions, heartbeat, etc. As long as everything is looking ok you spend around 1 hour on monitors when you first get there and then you are free to do as you please with intermittent monitoring.
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bpmom
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Re: can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
Has your friend taken a Bradley Method class or read the books/literature on this birthing method?
DH and I took an 8-week class from a doula in Stony Brook, and I used the Stony Brook midwives for both my DCs. Can't tell you how informative and helpful the Bradley classes were for me -- we knew my rights as a patient and had the confidence to turn down the "interventions" that might have kept us from a natural birth. We knew what stage of labor I was at before the nurses could tell us and I was able to tell my midwives what was going on -- the nurses didn't really like that (one even made me feel like I was on display because I was the only 'natural' girl on the floor and called me weird for wanting music playing during the process).
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Re: can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
Posted by summerBaby10
thank you. How does this work with the obstetrician? Is the ob involved as well with the water birth?
Usually, if under the care of a midwife, she is the only practitioner. You don't normally see an OB and a midwife for prenatal care (unless the office has both) but one or the other. I have not heard of an OB attending a water birth, not in NY anyway! 
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Re: can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
Posted by BaseballWidow
Posted by summerBaby10
thank you. How does this work with the obstetrician? Is the ob involved as well with the water birth?
Usually, if under the care of a midwife, she is the only practitioner. You don't normally see an OB and a midwife for prenatal care (unless the office has both) but one or the other. I have not heard of an OB attending a water birth, not in NY anyway!
I think my OB would have a nervous breakdown attending one of those. When I arrived at the hopsital at 4 cm the first words out of his mouth were- "you want an epidural right? I'll get that for you right away!"
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vintagegirl
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Re: can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
Posted by BaseballWidow
Water birth may be an option. I believe the Gia (sp?) midwives do this at NUMC.
Make sure you go with Susan or Dale.. those are the best out of the group
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Re: can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
Posted by vintagegirl
Posted by BaseballWidow
Water birth may be an option. I believe the Gia (sp?) midwives do this at NUMC.
Make sure you go with Susan or Dale.. those are the best out of the group
Dale has a new office in Huntington. I'm pretty sure she told me she has a birthing pool there too.
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hope316
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Re: can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
I used Melaine Sumersile, CNM of Garden City OB. Not sure if Winthrop does water births. Dr Plancher is her backup MD who is also wonderful. I had meet Dr Plancher when Melaine was not in the office.
Midwives have a specific backup doctor and they are both affiliated with the same hospital.
If she is interested in switching she should do sooner rather than later so she can build a relationship
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VikingChick
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Re: can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
Posted by hope316
I used Melaine Sumersile, CNM of Garden City OB. Not sure if Winthrop does water births. Dr Plancher is her backup MD who is also wonderful. I had meet Dr Plancher when Melaine was not in the office.
Midwives have a specific backup doctor and they are both affiliated with the same hospital.
If she is interested in switching she should do sooner rather than later so she can build a relationship
No waterbirths at Winthrop. But as per Melanie- "you can give birth any position you want- squatting in the corner, all fours, whatever." She does intermittent monitoring. GL to your friend!
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hdrd0411
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Re: can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
Melanie Sumersille...
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TheDivineMrsM
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Re: can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
Posted by hope316
I used Melaine Sumersile, CNM of Garden City OB. Not sure if Winthrop does water births. Dr Plancher is her backup MD who is also wonderful. I had meet Dr Plancher when Melaine was not in the office.
Midwives have a specific backup doctor and they are both affiliated with the same hospital.
If she is interested in switching she should do sooner rather than later so she can build a relationship
I used Melanie too. Winthrop does not do water births - the only hospital on LI that does is NUMC. Dr. Plancher is a doll. I wasn't in love w/Dr. Sherwin but he's very good too.
One of my favorite Melanie quotes: "You can give birth standing on your head, if that works for you." No required IV's, intermittent fetal monitoring, and you're cleared to drink clear liquids (not just ice chips).
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Re: can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
My sister just had a home birth with Dale Cook this past Thursday, 8/11.
Dale was fantastic, my sister had a birthing pool on loan from Dale and that's where she gave birth, in the birthing pool in my parent's dining room, lol.
Shoot me an FM with any specific questions... it was an amazing experience being able to be there!
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creddy5
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Re: can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
I wld never rec a home birth. My sil's sister just had her 2nd in the hosp. She & her baby had serious complications that no one could foresee. If she wasn't in the hosp that baby may not have lived and possibly the mom. Very scary childbirth can be so delivering in a hosp imo is the safest and smartest thing.
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TheDivineMrsM
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Re: can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
Posted by creddy5
I wld never rec a home birth. My sil's sister just had her 2nd in the hosp. She & her baby had serious complications that no one could foresee. If she wasn't in the hosp that baby may not have lived and possibly the mom. Very scary childbirth can be so delivering in a hosp imo is the safest and smartest thing.
I'm sorry your sister had complications, but that doesn't mean all home births are inherently unsafe.
That said, lots of midwives (esp those on LI) deliver in hospitals. The midwife I recommended with is affiliated with Winthrop. I looked at it as the best of both worlds: I could have a more natural birth experience, but if something went wrong (and for me, it did), I was in a first-class hospital.
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Re: can anyone recommend their midwife please & what other options are there other than giving birth in a hospital bed?
Stony Brook Midwives!!! They do deliver in the hospital, but are all for being up and about, and not tied down to the bed. I've had two great, drug free births with them.
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