I'm curious how long after you were admitted before the doc arrived?
I keep hearing about long labors, I'm guessing doc isn't there the whole time... Right?
What happens if your doc doesn't make it in time?
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About 1.5 hours I had c sections though so it was just surgery prep she wasn't there for.
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@travelingbrit: my OB practice always has a doctor "on call" and the doc has to be within a certain radius of the hospital whenever they are on call. So given that pushing takes time the doc should be able to make it on time without issue. Even so some of my friends have either asked or been offered the option to wait to start pushing until their doc is in the hospital. In an emergency or the case of a shockingly fast labor the hospital always has it's own OB on call in the building.
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i'm with @mamamoose. when i went into the hospital to get checked out cuz i was in labor, my doctor was on call that day and was already at the hospital. she schedules all her c sec on the day she's on call i guess. but if i went into labor another day, would have been the doctor on call that took care of me.
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I was induced, so the OB on call was there when I was admitted and checked on me every 6 hours or so. He didn't come in for the delivery until about 15 minutes before the baby came out, though.
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I got my room at 12:45 to get induced. I had a very slow labor. My OB came in around 6pm to break my water. I finally pushed at 4am which ended in a c section and LO was born at 6am.
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Never. My official OB didn't deliver my son, it was the midwives at the hospital that stayed with me the entire time.
I should say my OB was in a different state and according to our insurance, couldn't deliver at the hospital where I was covered, but this was never an issue for me.
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I checked into the hospital around 8:00am and my doctor was there probably an hour after to check in with me before he went into his office. He stayed in touch withy L&D nurse throughout the day and came back after his office hours to see me and eventually I had an unplanned csection and he did the surgery.
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We got to the hospital around 4-4:30am and my midwife arrived around 8 or 9.
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I got to hospital @ 11p & by 1a I was pushing. My husband was freaking out the doctor wasn't there. All I remember is the nurses saying "don't worry, we've delivered a ton of babies." my dr made it there about 1:30a, and I remember someone saying he was "in house," my son was born at 1:54a.
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With both kids, the doctors were kind of in and out the whole labor. With DD, when it came time to push, I started "practicing" with the nurse. She grabbed the doctor after about 10 minutes because I was progressing quickly, and DD was born about 20 minutes later. With DS, I labored down for about an hour while the doctor went home to put his kids to bed. When I couldn't wait any longer, I started pushing with the nurse. The doctor walked in about 10 minutes before he was born.
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Thanks everyone. Sounds like lots of different answers.
@lydg I'd be freaking out too, thats cutting it close! -
I went to the hospital straight from my doctors appointment which is right across the street from her, when they discovered the low fluid and that I had to stay and be induced she was already in the hospital performing surgery on someone else so I had to wait a few hours to see her
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Once my doctor was called (arrived at hospital around 4:45am, called doctor by 5:15am), she arrived in about 20 minutes. She literally ran to the hospital because she'd been out marathon training and it was faster for her to run to the hospital than go back to where she had left her car and drive. I delivered my son not 5 minutes after she entered my room (5:41am).
If she hadn't been available whomever the on-call OB for the hospital was would have attended.
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i was induced and he was there when i got there(with other patients) and was in my room about 45 mins or so after i got a room to break my water. he came in various times throughout the afternoon/early evening to check on me. ended in c-section though at night.
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I honestly don't remember. I think she came to check up on me and then left for a while, and then was back to check and then left again. I didn't see her much..... but I was ok with that.
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Our practice has on-call doctors who are always at the hospital. The one who admitted me had been there since the day before. At 7am, he went off shift and the doctor who delivered our baby came on shift.
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I always wonder about this. I need to ask my practice how it works, when we get closer. There are two doctors and two midwives in the practice. Depending on who's on call, that's who you get -- you cycle through all four of them on visits throughout your pregnancy so you're comfortable and know everybody. However if you require a C-section it will be one of the OBs. But I don't know how it works if your labor spans two days, with two different people on call (I guess whomever is on call in the beginning will check on you and whomever is on call during pushing will deliver?), or if you require a C-section but neither of the OBs are on call. I guess I will find out! Thankfully I love everybody in my practice (though I've only had one visit with one of the midwives so far).
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