Choosing (or Changing) Your Doctor or Midwife

Pregnancy Podcast

Vanessa Merten

Newborn, Parent, Homebirth, Vbac, Kids & Family, Doula, Firsttimemom, Midwife, Pregnancy, Doctor, Parenting, Pregnant, Vanessamerten, Physician, Csection, Prenatalcare, Breastfeeding, Naturalbirth, Nursing, Birthcenter, Family, Baby, Hospitalbirth, Health, Obgyn, Research, Trimester, Expecting, Labor, Mom, Diet, Dad, Birth

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🗓️ 5 May 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Your care provider is the cornerstone of your prenatal care and birth experience. You will work with this expert resource throughout pregnancy to make critical decisions. Choosing your care provider is more nuanced than having a midwife for a home birth or an OB/GYN for a birth at a hospital. Your comfort and trust in your care provider is more important than their qualifications, where they went to school, and how many babies they have delivered. Ultimately, who your care provider is will significantly impact your experience and how your baby enters the world. When choosing your care provider, you want to research, explore your options, and shop around to find the right fit. This episode covers what to look for when choosing or changing your doctor or midwife and specific questions to find a care provider that is the right fit.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the pregnancy podcast with Vanessa Merton.
0:10.0	Hello, thank you for tuning into the pregnancy podcast. In today's episode, we're talking
0:17.0	about choosing or changing your doctor or your midwife. Your care provider is the cornerstone of your prenatal care and your birth experience.
0:26.5	This is an expert resource that you are going to work with throughout your pregnancy to make critical decisions. Choosing a care provider is a long your at a hospital. The number one thing you need to look for is your comfort and
0:45.5	trust in a care provider. That's far more important than their qualifications
0:50.0	where they went to school and how many babies they have delivered.
0:54.0	Ultimately, who your care provider is will significantly impact your experience and how your baby enters the world.
1:02.0	So when choosing your care provider,
1:04.1	you want to do your research, explore your options,
1:06.9	and shop around to find the right fit.
1:09.8	This episode is going to help you do that.
1:12.3	We're going to talk about what to look for when
1:14.3	choosing or changing your doctor or midwife and go through specific questions to
1:19.7	find a care provider that's the right fit for you. You can find the complete article and all of the resources for this episode at pregnancy podcast.com.
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