Hellobee Boards

There are 6 doctors at our OB office and the only time I would not get my own doctor to delivery baby is if it's on a weekend.

All docs are on call during the week and if a patient goes in, they come when it's time to "push" the rest of the time it's nurses that prep you along the way.

If it's a weekend, it's 1/6 chances you'll get your DOC. I had 1 doc for mavrick that i hated!!!! and switched. The only thing I wish (if I go into labour on a weekend, is that he's not the one on call... I'D DIE or i'd make sure to push her out before he arrived!)

There are 8 doctors in my practice and I have met them all. I have no problem with any of them. I have some favorites but none that I despise. That's a good thing because I think I would be pretty annoyed if the doc I hated ended up delivering my LO. It shouldn't be TOO big of a deal considering he/she is only in there for a few minutes anyways.

My plan has a bunch of OBs, so odds aren't in my favor that mine will be the delivering doctor. Her clinic days are Mondays and Thursdays, and I think her hospital day is Tuesday. And maybe an on call rotation for weekends. Basically, a 1 in 7 chance of getting her. And I haven't met any of the other OBs at the other clinics. Which is fine. It's all about getting nice nurses anyway.

My office has two OBs that deliver babies (there's also a nurse-midwife and a PA, but they don't do deliveries), but they have cross-coverage at night and on weekends with another practice (whose docs I'd never met, and didn't like when I had to interact with them over the phone a couple times). I was kind of pissed that when I first went to the hospital at midnight, the OB on call was one of the ones from the other practice and she had many more restrictions on me than my OBs would (i.e. she didn't want me to be able to go in the bathtub, no food or drink at all, etc.). Luckily, I really like the two OBs in my practice, and I saw them both during the delivery- one came in to check on me during rounds in the morning, and the other delivered the baby and checked on us the next day. I was really happy with how it worked out.

my practice has 4 doctors and 2 midwives. I chose the midwives for a few reasons, but I liked knowing who would be able to deliver.

i did not like both doctors delivered me. but with olive's delivery, i actually had two doctors. the one who did most of the work was a more junior doctor, and she was awesome. i credit her for me being able to deliver olive as quickly as i did. she is not a regular ob in my practice though.

There were 5 doctors and I disliked one of them. Of course, she was the one who delivered. She needed to work on her bedside manner, she acted like I was completely inconveniencing her for having my baby at 3am. Like that was what I wanted just to screw with her! As if I could control it.
This pregnancy, we are delivering at a hospital that my practice doesn't deliver at so I won't know the doctor at all! Since it's my second, I'm not too worried. We'll probably only see him or her for about 20 mins anyway.