Well, we finally found the person we want to attend our birth. Her name is Catherine Shields and she is a CNM who delivers at Deaconess medical center here in Spokane. We feel really good about her. After dealing with Dr. Smetana who blatantly told us that we had to have erythromycin, vitamin K, a heparin lock during labor, etc. (all of which are not true - you can elect NOT to have those), and she said she did things we were uncomfortable with such as tugging on the umbilical cord to "help the placenta be delivered", cut the cord after about 30 seconds because "it stops pulsing around then" (when we know that it usually stops pulsing, on average, at least 3 or more minutes after delivery), we started looking at the midwives in the area.
We found a couple midwives who deliver at a birth center and they sounded brilliant at first, the only downside being that we'd have to pay for the whole thing out of pocket. After interviewing one of them, I did some more research and luckily ran across a forum that talked about the midwives in Spokane and almost everyone on there had some dire warnings about one of the midwives that worked at the birth center. Come to find out she has 2 closed and 1 open case of negligence. I looked it up and they weren't little "oops" things, but big judgement errors that could have cost lives. Needless to say we decided against them.
I did find good things about Catherine Shields on the forums, however, and luckily she is one of the 2 midwives in all of Spokane that our insurance covers. :) We went to interview her and everything sounds really great. We asked all the tough questions and they passed with flying colors. I am really looking forward to delivering with her and at Deaconess - we feel good about it. It is such a relief to have it all taken care of and "locked in".
I finally got the dresser we picked up a bit ago sanded down and painted. Yesterday we tried to put the new hardware on the drawers, but the screws kept snapping. :( Really cheap I guess. We're going to get some tough ones, install the hardware, and then I'll have a place to put everything that we get at the baby shower this weekend. :)
The tree in our backyard looks like it is a cherry tree of all things. It has begun developing little green cherries on it. We're really excited about it (well, me more then Tim to be honest :). We were wondering if it was a cherry tree because it had flowers similar to a cherry, and the leaves and bark fit a cherry tree, but it is such a big, nicely shaped tree that we figured it wasn't a fruit tree since they tend to be all scraggly and weak. I just hope they aren't pie cherries. :)
Well, that's all I gots to say today. <3
We found a couple midwives who deliver at a birth center and they sounded brilliant at first, the only downside being that we'd have to pay for the whole thing out of pocket. After interviewing one of them, I did some more research and luckily ran across a forum that talked about the midwives in Spokane and almost everyone on there had some dire warnings about one of the midwives that worked at the birth center. Come to find out she has 2 closed and 1 open case of negligence. I looked it up and they weren't little "oops" things, but big judgement errors that could have cost lives. Needless to say we decided against them.
I did find good things about Catherine Shields on the forums, however, and luckily she is one of the 2 midwives in all of Spokane that our insurance covers. :) We went to interview her and everything sounds really great. We asked all the tough questions and they passed with flying colors. I am really looking forward to delivering with her and at Deaconess - we feel good about it. It is such a relief to have it all taken care of and "locked in".
I finally got the dresser we picked up a bit ago sanded down and painted. Yesterday we tried to put the new hardware on the drawers, but the screws kept snapping. :( Really cheap I guess. We're going to get some tough ones, install the hardware, and then I'll have a place to put everything that we get at the baby shower this weekend. :)
The tree in our backyard looks like it is a cherry tree of all things. It has begun developing little green cherries on it. We're really excited about it (well, me more then Tim to be honest :). We were wondering if it was a cherry tree because it had flowers similar to a cherry, and the leaves and bark fit a cherry tree, but it is such a big, nicely shaped tree that we figured it wasn't a fruit tree since they tend to be all scraggly and weak. I just hope they aren't pie cherries. :)
Well, that's all I gots to say today. <3
June 4, 2008 at 12:24 PM
I am so glad you have finally found someone that fits you guys. I bet that was a weight lifted.