<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>JazzysMom</b></i>
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<br /><div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>Marjolein</b></i>
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<br />Never been there.. It's not standard to have a gyneacologist here. You go to your gp first, when you feel something is wrong and they will sent you through when they feel you need it. When I was on birthcontrol pills I got it from my gp too.</end quote>
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<br />So do the GP deliver babies also? In NY ours use to, but I dont know of any around me that still do. I think they leave it to the OB/GYN now. Not sure if its a law or not tho.</end quote>
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<br />Don't take my word on this, cause I can be wrong on some thing <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
<br />The GP doesn't deliver babies anymore, although some still do. I think there is one here on my island that still does. We have 2 midwives (they are no doctor cause they don't study medicine but a 4 year course that's only related to pregnancies) here on the island and they do all deliveries now really. They have the practice with the two of them so each works 50% of the week. One of them is the mother of the kids my mum babysits. When you are pregnant you go there and don't really visit the hospital unless something isn't right or it's a high risk pregnancy. Otherwise you can deliver in the hospital when you want to and the midwife will come with you. But most babies are born at home here (without pain meds haha), with the midwife.
<br />I was born in the hospital with an OB/GYN there but this was because my mum didn't feel me move anymore (the GP sent my mum there) so she was induced there and I was born a few days before my due date. My younger sister was born at home with the GP here, while I was sleeping in my bedroom right nextdoor <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> Ofcourse this was 24 and almost 22 years ago.
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<br />I think I saw a home birth in the US one on tv and you aren't allowed to give birth with only one midwife there right? I could be wrong, I might not remember right. Like I said here there is one but on the end of labor a nurse is called. The same nurse that comes to the mum's home the first days after giving birth, to help her with everything. Learn her things about the baby and do things around the house so the mum can rest. I don't think that nurse really has to be there legally though, but I think it is because there is someone there who can care for the baby, knows what the baby needs at that moment.
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<br />Ofcourse your GP will sent you to an OB/GYN when you have women's problems that need to be addressed at the hospital <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
