Midwife & Doctor?

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Do most of you that have midwives also have a doctor for prenatal care/ general care?  The birth center I'm going to only has midwives, and I plan to only use midwives during the birth, but I'm wondering if I should also be seeing a doctor regularly in addition to my midwife visits?  I don't have a general practitioner, but maybe a Naturopathic or Integrative medicine doctor?

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I only see a midwife. And I also see her for regular gynecology things. I don't have a doctor at all.

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Exclusively use my midwives. They work with a ob/gyn if they need to, but I've never needed one. This is my second pregnancy with midwives.

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Midwife and a naturopath to consult on nutrition and supplementation.

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Exclusively midwife. We can choose one or the other in Ontario, not both. Having a home birth and have no use for a doctor or hospitals lol.

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I see a midwife, and will be delivering with a midwife. The practice that I go to does have doctors, but they only see women who are high risk or develop complications. I think this is the best of both worlds. The midwives specialize in normal birth which is the vast majority of women..while the surgeons specialize in complicated birth when necessary. 
I don't think you need a doctor to see you unless you develop complications.

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Exclusively seeing a midwife

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I only see a midwife and my midwife and a student midwife will be delivering my baby at home. Any general care issues I've had she's been able to deal with.

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I exclusively see a midwife, too! Love my team.

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I use midwives that have their practice on the first floor of the birth center I'll be birthing at. I haven't seen a doctor and don't plan on doing so. One of the midwives is a ND, that's as close as I've gotten.

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I started with a doctor and switched to exclusively midwife.

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