Doula, midwife or doctor
I’m interested in other people’s perspectives in case there are aspects I haven’t considered yet.
I live in Alberta, Canada in a mid sized city. These are the current birth options I’m weighing and some of my considerations. I’m due end of Feb — temps average -20C and road conditions are icy. We will have our two year old and our parents live 2 hours away.
I’m quite interested in having a doula for the birth and postpartum care. It costs about $1000-$1500 and has to all be paid for privately.
The delivery is all publicly funded. These are the choices:
1. Hospital Birth with a doctor.
- 10 minutes from my house
- my Dr works in a team of nine so I have a 1/9 chance of having her.
- I hate some of the other members of her team (creepy, rough, old men.
- I had my first at this hospital so it’s familiar and it was very positive BUT I was the only one delivering at the time which meant tons of nurse assistance, and I got my lovely doc coaching me along
- pain meds option
2. Midwife at Birthing Centre
- 1 hr + from home
- unfamiliar
- next-door to hospital in case of emergency
- water birth facilities
3. Midwife at different Hospital
(They’re fully booked in my local area)
- 1 hr+ from home
- unfamiliar
- large private rooms
- overnight area for husband
- water birth facilities
- pain meds options
I think I’m most leaning towards option number one with the doula but my husband thinks we should go for number 3.
Thoughts?
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