Anyone else not meeting their delivery doctor until baby comes? 🖐️😰

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So here's my situation.
I am seeing a pretty good obgyn right now (I'm 25.3 weeks) but she does not have the credentials to actually deliver. So if I continue to see her, I will not meet the person who is going to deliver my baby until I'm in full on labor.
Now I know there's a chance my Dr. Wouldn't be on call when I go into labor even if I did switch BUT I'm really struggling with the fact that I have no ability to meet or talk with my labor/delivery doctor prior to baby coming so I have NO clue if that person will be supportive of my birth plan and desires.
Plus this is my first child so I think being able to talk to that person would be helpful... I do really like my current obgyn tho.
What would you do in my shoes?

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I don’t even have a specific obgyn... I see whichever dr is working when I have a day off to have appointments. And all the drs are on call for delivery at different times. I’m a little nervous, but I know it’s gonna be okay.

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Well I have a primary OB who does deliver but only does so while on call. So I have only a 20% of it being him versus someone I dont know. Might as well stick with who you know throughout since like you said, even if she did deliver its not a guarantee itd be her anyway

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Well I had a family practice dr and ended up needing a c section. My dr was in the or with me but didn’t deliver our baby so I didn’t even meet the dr that did until my first check up. My second baby I picked a dr didn’t meet her the first appointment so I switched bc I hated that, picked a new dr loved him but he does in a motorcycle accident when I was 7 month pregnant, switched drs AGAIN to a another dr I liked but he wasn’t an on call dr for my hospital he was just going to come that day to deliver her BUT I went into labor on my own on a Sunday morning at like 1 am and the on call dr was a different lady. I ended up really liking her so now I use her and the third baby was finally the first time the dr I picked delivered my baby lol. I don’t think it is a huge deal personally. You just need someone to know what they are doing and help get baby out 💗

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My first go around my dr didn’t deliver me. It was whoever was on call and I had never even met him before.

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I’m a ftm and in the same position as you 
I’m a patient at a high risk clinic, that’s also a teaching hospital, so they have a team of Ob residents and I see a diff one at each appointment 
And then when I deliver, their Obs that work in labor and delivery are part of a different team. So every time I go in, there’s no regularity. It’s okay with me, but I guess it’s because I haven’t “gotten used to” any specific person at all. 
So I just roll with the punches and know that I have faith in the team as a whole to deliver my baby safely.

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The hospital I'm delivering at is a teach hospital attached to a university. My obgyn delivers but, its unlikely she'll be there when I go into labor. I have no idea who the doctor will be and she doesn't either. It's kind if scary but, I probably won't care at all in the moment.

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The doctor really doesn't make a difference in my opinion. It may be different where you are, but the nurse does 90% on her own here. I didn't see the Dr until my son was crowning. He came in until the baby was out then left immediately. That was like 1 hour out of 7. Also he wasn't my OB, never met him before

Anyone else not meeting their delivery doctor until baby comes? 🖐️😰

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