Here’s my in-progress list of questions to ask the doctor on Friday. If anyone has any feedback, suggestions, additions, etc, let me know!
- Do you work with any midwives?
- What is your induction rate?
- What percentage of your patients get an epidural?
- What is your Cesarean rate?
- Are you okay with deliveries that happen at night or on weekends without inducing?
- Do you attend breech births? Frank breech?
- What’s your philosophy on going past 40 weeks?
- What’s your philosophy on big babies?
- What is your philosophy on what to do 24 hours after water has broke if there’s no sign of infection and mom and baby are fine?
- What kind of monitoring do you require?
- Do you allow movement during labor, and choice of delivery position, birthing baths, etc?
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Great questions! What kind of answers did you get? Did he/she say what you wanted to hear? Did they get upset about all the questions? Seems like whenever I ask informed questions the doctors get upset that I’m questioning their judgment. They seem to prefer the deferential patients!
Oh yeah, I gotta follow-up with the answers to these questions… I’ll write that post right now.