Midwives, doctors and nurses

[brittneysmith]

I trust having a midwife without the presence of a doctor. People think they aren’t trained properly for this but I believe that midwives are capable of everything. This is my 3rd pregnancy now and the midwives before have been so caring and nice whilst the doctors don’t even treat me like a person!

The majority of the time it’s nurses or the midwife who have direct contact with the patient. You don’t really get to know the Dr most of the time.

As long as everything is going okay, then the midwives are excellent. But part of the role of a good midwife is to know when things are going wrong, and the doctors are needed.

Most people who would need a midwife know that they're capable of supporting them through pregnancy and labour. Doctors still have an important role, especially in more complex cases. Who has suggested midwives are not trained properly?

Why have you started three different threads about this?

Yeah this is weird. Why three threads about it?

Of course they are trained properly for this. Looking after women in pregnancy, during delivery and postnatally is their job. Doctors have their role in obstetrics too, dealing with the complex cases, but aren't always needed in straightforward cases.

During my third, totally uncomplicated, pregnancy 24 years ago I didn't see a doctor at all, other than my GP to get referred to the midwife service, and I had two wonderful midwives deliver the baby at my planned home birth. Amazing, they were.