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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 683057" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Our midwives also work at hospitals. During pregnancy, if nothing is wrong, you have few appointments with a doctor and many more with midwife. When your labour starts you go to hospital and a midwife checks you. If all is well, labour starts and end with midwives. If something happens, they call a doctor who is also present in the ward, just not involved if all goes like it should go. Doctors are there, operating rooms for c-section are there, NICU is usually a floor up or down and so on. Most people just do not need those services because everything goes well.</p><p></p><p>Then after the birth gynecologist checks the mother and pediatrician the baby, before they can go home. But during labour doctor is not needed in many cases. If it is a risk birth doctor will be there even if it goes well and while midwives still do most of the work and midwives have their part also in very difficult births. Midwives and doctors simply have different areas of expertise in the labour room.</p><p></p><p>In fact most of our well child checks are done by midwife with young babies and nurses with extra year of school for child development with older babies, toddlers and older kids. Again, if all is well, you have a pediatrician appointment only few times during childhood, but when something seems worrying you will meet more doctors than you would like. System works well, because both training and vast experience of these midwives and child development nurses will have helps them to notice when things are normal and when something, even very small, is amiss. And they have much more time for you than pediatrician would have.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 683057, member: 14557"] Our midwives also work at hospitals. During pregnancy, if nothing is wrong, you have few appointments with a doctor and many more with midwife. When your labour starts you go to hospital and a midwife checks you. If all is well, labour starts and end with midwives. If something happens, they call a doctor who is also present in the ward, just not involved if all goes like it should go. Doctors are there, operating rooms for c-section are there, NICU is usually a floor up or down and so on. Most people just do not need those services because everything goes well. Then after the birth gynecologist checks the mother and pediatrician the baby, before they can go home. But during labour doctor is not needed in many cases. If it is a risk birth doctor will be there even if it goes well and while midwives still do most of the work and midwives have their part also in very difficult births. Midwives and doctors simply have different areas of expertise in the labour room. In fact most of our well child checks are done by midwife with young babies and nurses with extra year of school for child development with older babies, toddlers and older kids. Again, if all is well, you have a pediatrician appointment only few times during childhood, but when something seems worrying you will meet more doctors than you would like. System works well, because both training and vast experience of these midwives and child development nurses will have helps them to notice when things are normal and when something, even very small, is amiss. And they have much more time for you than pediatrician would have. [/QUOTE]
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