I guess being in the Bay Area you actually have birth centers, eh? We don't have any around here.
In the end I was glad that we were in the hospital--turned out the L&D nurses didn't know how to recognize a baby w/breathing problems, but the NICU did--but I was not glad that said hospital was 25 miles away from our house.
If we have another baby, I will probably have another hospital birth, but I don't think I would use an OB/GYN. I had a midwife last time, and while there were some things I didn't like about her approach, there was definitely no pressure like all the stuff your book is describing.
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In the end I was glad that we were in the hospital--turned out the L&D nurses didn't know how to recognize a baby w/breathing problems, but the NICU did--but I was not glad that said hospital was 25 miles away from our house.
If we have another baby, I will probably have another hospital birth, but I don't think I would use an OB/GYN. I had a midwife last time, and while there were some things I didn't like about her approach, there was definitely no pressure like all the stuff your book is describing.