I just had my 28 week appointment this morning and I am so unhappy with my doctor. All throughout this pregnancy I have never left her office from an appointment and been happy. Her tone is ridiculous, she doesn't always listen, she seems like she's knowledgeable and knows what she's doing but I have literally cried every time I left her office.

Now today she told me that I'm not allowed to do a water birth but then casually dropped that there is a midwife clinic attached to the hospital that we are sitting at and planning to deliver at and that if I wanted to do a water birth I would have to go through them but all of the "current research" is showing how unsanitary and unhealthy water births are.

I pointed out to her that there is Just as much research to prove benefit of water birth and she shot me down and said that even if that's my main plan there's always a possibility that it won't happen if I have to have an epidural or something goes wrong. Thanks for the positive encouragement lady! Not!

And during the same appointment she casually dropped that my baby has a marker for down syndrome, due to his legs being at a shorter growth rate than the rest of his body. In all of my research that I did after the appointment, it shows that his leg measurements, although shorter than the rest of what his body is measuring at, are totally normal! He probably just has short legs right now which isnt abnormal. And on top of it a shorter leg measurement could indicate, if you're thinking of things that are wrong, five other conditions, that she didn't even mention! So if she really wanted to look in my best interest and worry about something that could potentially be wrong based on the leg measurement she didn't even tell me all the facts and just told me that it was an indicator of down syndrome.

I really want to do a water birth and am very disappointed in how this doctor has been communicating with me so far.

I am nervous about switching so late in the game but more worried about added stress and the doctor not listening to me in the middle of labor.