Sentences with phrase «most obs»

Can you please provide a source for your assertion that most OBs never see an unmedicated birth?

You're telling me that after FOUR YEARS most OBs don't even see one tenth of what I did?

As for delayed cord clamping, the benefits are small, but most OBs have no problem doing it.

You need to go to all of your prenatal appointments, get (some of) the recommended testing and lab work done, and most OBs and midwives tell you that you have to get at least one anatomical ultrasound at 20 weeks.

-- If your wife's pregnancy goes postdates, know that most OBs would be pushing to deliver her baby between 41 and 42 weeks, and they would suggest BPPs and NSTs to be sure that the placenta and baby are holding up.

So, no, I don't think most OBs are feeling financially threatened by homebirth.

Most OBs won't do that.

Most OBs get paid by I durance companies and when you factor in the cost of malpractice I surance, student loans and the cost of doing business, you would see it's not nearly as much as you think.

You haven't responded to the other false claims from my comment, like most OBs are men, etc. oh well.

It's my understanding that most OBs do not palpate during a prenatal visit.

Then maybe you should have pre-registered if you didn't want to be asked a ton of questions during labor, most OB offices and hospitals recommend it to their patients and it saves the «leeches» time that could be spent with other patients!

Most OB / GYN clinics suggest their patients see multiple providers during their prenatal and postpartum checkups.

And most OB's are employed by hospitals and this work on salary.

I am beyond confused as to what you think is ignorance — believing that a woman's body that was designed to give birth is going to do just that unless something stops it... or believing that a doctor that has probably never seen a natural birth nor experienced pregnancy or birth themselves (because most OB's that I've encountered have not experienced either situation) is capable of knowing what each individual woman is needing??

Just as a point of comparison, most OB / GYN residencies by contrast require Drs to perform 250 - 300 spontaneous vaginal deliveries as primaries, as well as 150 C - sections and 25 - 50 operative vaginal deliveries by the time they are done with their residency.

«Today most OB's are very responsive to the mother's plan for delivery,» MYTH «Women should be permitted to make decisions regarding their care, but should also be informed of all risks, benefits, and alternatives to their selected treatment.»

It is very common once you are at the hospital to be put on the birthing time clock, meaning that you are given a range of time in which you need to progress to 10 cm and push baby out before most OB's will start pushing for a repeat Cesarean.

Miscarriage is so common that most OB / GYNs won't do any additional testing until a woman has had two or three of them.

Most OB / GYN practitioners do not schedule the first prenatal visit until 8 weeks pregnancy.

«Most OB / GYNs don't tell you that one in six marriages ends in divorce within a year after the birth of the first child,» says Goldstein, who is also an instructor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and director of the Center for Vulvovaginal Disorders in New York City and Washington, DC.

Not exact matches

Dr. Rebecca Levy Gantt, MD, OB / GYN, told INSIDER that the patients in her practice report the most side effects of any birth control method with Depo - Provera.

A 2010 survey by the American Medical Association found that half of OB - GYNs had been sued before the age of 40 — a higher proportion than doctors in most other medical fields.

But on the other side of this, I have worked with a lot of OB / GYN's in DFW and most of all the one thing I respect most is the ones who are upfront about their position and their comfort level.

It was actually two very compassionate and patient doctors - my OB and my pediatrician - who helped me most.

Thankfully these days doctors not only assume most most will breastfeed, but in my case the OB also instructed the nurse not to give me the shot that was designed to slow my bleeding because my baby was already nursing minutes after birth, so nature would take care of that.

I only know one midwife with a practice specifically geared this way — but the OB has to do it «under the table» and she is the most expensive midwife in the area.

I told my husband that after my six - week appointment with my OB, we could most likely have sex again.

Most clients do not continue or seek care with an OB once they have hired a midwife.

When my oldest was a baby, my OB told me that for me to breastfeed to 6 weeks old would be longer than most mothers ever make it.

Usually, I find OBs who are young and new are the most likely to give an RN a condescending lecture on fetal monitoring.

After calling my husband, Larry, I called the last OB / GYN that I had been to under my most recent insurance plan.

In my experience, most doulas would rather work with midwives than OB - GYNs.

Most women choose an obstetrician (OB / GYN), a specialist who's trained to handle pregnancies (including those with complications), labor, and delivery.

Most people feel safest giving birth in a hospital with an OB.

As I said last year, I would put The Skeptical OB up against any blog on the Web as having the most articulate, the most intelligent and the most compelling commentors of all.

Also, most of the time the OB is able to alert the neonatal team BEFORE the birth that there might be a problem.

Most regular OBs wouldn't take that case!

I was getting at, if she had delivered in the hospital, the fetal HR pattern would most likely have been category II or worse, III, and the OB would have expedited the delivery with an episiotomy and vacuum and any resuscitation may only have been done in the L&D room in front of momma in the neonatal bassinet.

I know homebirthers love to talk about OB's doing things for financial gain but has it ever occurred to you that most of us who go into medicine actually do so because we actually care about and want to help people?

I started my prenatal visits like most women in America by making an appointment with the OB.

Most of our surrogates already have relationships with an obstetrician / gynecologist (OB / GYN) and many will deliver at the same hospital where they gave birth to their children.

A 2003 ACOG - sponsored survey (the most recent I could find) says OB / gyns averaged 186 deliveries per year.

In contrast, OB's are required to carry insurance and as a result, most lawyers will take on a malpractice case if the damages are likely to be adequate to cover the cost of pursuing it.

Like all parallel medical services, it falls to the patient to figure out who is legitimately skilled and who is not: EXCEPT, most women having babies are in their twenties and early thirties and I personally didn't have the kind of life - experience necessary to question whether or not my government would provide me with sub par care and just assumed that if the government was paying, it must be safe, and the midwifery community capitalizes on this by running advertisements (which OB / GYN are not permitted to do) advertising themselves as being less interventionist, less c - section (no shit, Sherlock, but you'd have to read between the lines to understand why), and better outcomes.

Though most women who have determined that they are fertile can conceive within two years of trying at least two times per week, many starting in their late 30s and early 40s shouldn't wait that long before consulting their OB / GYN or fertility specialist.

OBs and CNMs are (for the most part) unwilling to do homebirths, because they consider them far too risky.

Sometimes there are good reasons, but sometimes the reasons are related to insurance rates, or demands on doctors» time (some hospitals require an OB attending a VBAC to be in house the entire time the VBAC is laboring, and few doctors want to do this) rather than the most medically appropriate choice or patient safety.

Bombshellrisa points out that the OB has an ethical obligation to offer patients a range of choices so that the patient can make the choices most aligned with her own priorities.

Although most new moms want to breast - feed and are aware of the health advantages, they are not likely to continue if they do not get support from the hospital staff, said Dr. Paula White, a Loyola OB - GYN.

OBs weren't sure whether routine episiotomies were a good idea, so they studied the question, and determined that the answer was no, most of the time it doesn't help, although episiotomy can be helpful in carefully selected cases.