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| - I had the worst experience and it's really not what you want to happen for your first pregnancy/delivery/baby. I thought the midwives were really laid back from the beginning but when a pregnancy goes well, there is nothing to worry about. Women have been doing that for ages and I am not of a worried nature. I was planning on delivering at the midwives center or at my place that was literally across the street . But the closest we got to the due date, the more doubts I had: Babette asked me few times: did we do "x" test and did we do "y" test? I think it's worrying she didn't keep track of that. I did the pee test maybe 3 times when normally it's at each visit. Anyway, everything was going well so nothing to worry much about. Then, I started swallowing a lot but since it was summer, the midwives put it on the account of the heat. We discovered after I delivered I had pre-eclampsia. It could be totally unrelated but it could also totally be... I started labor 2 days after the due date. I paged my midwife who didn't think it would be relevant to tell me she was not on call (it's not like she was expecting one of her patient to deliver over the next couple of days since my due date was already passed). So my back-up midwife calls me back, tell me she is going to take a nap before coming to see me because: yes, my contractions are close to each other but not very intense. What does she know about my pain tolerance? I should have listened to my instinct and hop on a cab to go to St Michaels but for some reason, I was still trusting them. I told Andrea I wanted to deliver at the hospital. When she finally arrived, she could see the baby's head and said we could go to the hospital but I'll most likely deliver in the ambulance. Since the hospital is 5 min away for home, I was really happy to think labor would be so quick and I could just spend the night at home with my marvelous new born. Four hours later, I was still pushing on my bed when Andrea decided it was becoming critical to take me to St Mikes... At this point, I had to hold from pushing until I was in the delivery room. Ahhhh! The amazing obgyn on call had to do what she had to do. Then, she spent 2 hours repairing me without anesthesia... We end up spending 5 days at the hospital because of pre-eclampsia. At this point, Babette was still responsible for the follow up visits, which I was really uncomfortable with. But the hospital staff was there too so I know my baby was properly checked. All that doesn't matter because we have the healthiest baby in the world but I really didn't feel properly treated by the center. I guess the most important is to trust your guts. You know better than anybody else. Also, I can't help but wonder how the subventions work? Do midwives centers get more money when they do a home birth? Is it the reason why they push for it? ...
Special mention to my second back-up who I really really liked: Tiffany. super calm and efficient. Very reassuring.
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