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Wow. 2 doctors? My OB's a man. I love him. He has his own practice so I only saw him at my appointments and he happened to be on call at the hospital when I went into labor so it was really convenient.

I've only ever had male OB/GYNs. The doc on call and the midwives were all female though. I did get one visit from a male doc when I had a bleeding episode while in the hospital. Everyone else was female.

I had a female doctor deliver my daughter. The practice I went to had 2 males that could have also delivered her, but neither of them seemed as nurturing as the female dr I had. Its weird because my delivering dr didn't have any children, but the male drs both had children. I think female drs can just sympathise much better with how it must (or how it does) feel to be in that position.

My OB/GYN is a woman, and she was fantastic during delivery. She's super calm, brief, and to-the-point. I hated that about my prenatal appointments, because they'd be about 2 minutes long and I always left feeling cheated and confused. I think I would have preferred a little more hand-holding during my first pregnancy. Though if I decide to get pregnant again, I think I'll stick with her, despite how much I disliked my care the first time around. I'm thinking that now I've been through it, I would appreciate getting in and out of the office so quickly. It's certainly nice from the gynecological standpoint!

First go round I had a male ob and really liked him.... unfortunately he wasn't on call to deliver me and the woman that was was pretty rude throughout the whole thing.

This go round I have a female midwife =)

My mom told me that she always had better experiences being delivered by a male OB and that some women who have been through it before are actually less sympathetic especially if they had an easy labor. Personally I think its not relevant if they OB is male or female and its more about their personality and how in tune they are with other people.
My OB is a woman and I must say so far its been easier seeing a woman but we'll see what happens when I'm in labor!

I went to bigger practice and my preference was older women for an OB. The men were OK and would kind of answer questions but it was kind of awkward. I didn't like any of the younger women OBs (there weren't any younger men OBs to compare), got a lot of wrong info, brushed off when I asked questions, and just seemed very cold. In delivery I had a younger woman OB who I hadn't met and I really didn't like her. She had snotty answers to my questions and made me feel panicked while delivering because she wanted me to hold my breath for longer than I wanted to (baby was out in 3 pushes so it wasn't like a big deal). Told me my tear wasn't that bad but then once I went back to her after I retore she said she suspected it might happen since it was a bad tear (why not tell me that before I retear so I take it easy). Once the baby was born she was very sweet but she was terrible during labor and delivery.