Deliver with midwife only / 生產時只有助產士

Today we had an appointment with our midwife. The appointments get more frequent before the due date. Now we have to check in every two weeks. Soon in the final month we will need to check in every week.

So far our baby is doing great. Everytime the midwives check my belly size, Calie moves strongly.. She likes to shock our midwives all the time. One of our midwife’s name is Yinka. She has been  shocked twice. She says, “have you seen her? She just moves…” I wouldn’t be surprised because Calie moves night and day all the time. Yinka said I’m too tiny. That’s why I can feel her movement so easily.

Another thing we found out today was our delivery will likely only have a midwife. No doctor!!!!!!! Is it possible? Is it normal? Not sure if every state is different.  Here if you don’t have any big problems or requests, it is common to deliver by a midwife. Only having serious concerns or a c-section, they will refer to an OB doctor. Even though we made an appointment with an OB doctor at the beginning, we still haven’t had a chance to meet the doctor.  We were just wondering why we haven’t met our doctor. So today I asked one of the nurses. She said if we want to see OB doctor we can. They are always there. My midwife comforted me and said don’t worry honey, we have a lot of experience. If we have any emergency, the doctor will come right away. They are always nearby. However, comparing to an OB doctor, midwives seem to have more patience.

Duchess of the British royal family, delivered with a midwife too. I guess it is pretty common in western society. I believe they won’t put me in danger. So I have to trust them. They are well trained. That’s for sure!

今天又要產檢了，生產前的產檢次數會越來越頻繁了，現在是兩週一次，很快最後一個月就變成每周一次了。

寶寶大致上都很好很健康，每次助產士檢查我的肚子時，Calie都會有很激烈的胎動，我們常見到的助產士她的名字叫做Yinka，她就常常嚇到，她每次都會說你有看到嗎？她剛剛動好大力，我是不太驚訝，因為Calie早晚都這樣動來動去的，我已經習慣囉！Yinka說因為我太小隻了，所以我可以很容易的感受到胎動。

今天的產檢我們才得知，生產時我們不會有婦產科主治醫生，只會有助產士幫我們！！！沒有醫生喔！！！怎麼可能？這正常嗎？？不確定是不是每一州都不一樣，在這裡如果你沒有甚麼重大的問題，通常都只有助產士接生，只有孕婦本身有些問題或是要開刀的才會有主治醫生來接生，就算我們一開始是預約婦產科醫生，我們還是沒有機會遇到她，今天我們問了護士，她說如果我們要見醫生，也是可以，她們都有在醫院裡面，我們的助產士拍拍我說親愛的別擔心，我們有很多接生的經驗，如果有任何緊急的狀況，醫生也會很快趕過來，還好我們婦產科醫生的診所就在這間醫院裡面，總之，跟婦產科醫生比，助產士好像比較有耐心。

英國威廉王子的老婆反正也是助產士接生的，我猜可能在西方社會這還蠻普遍的，我相信她們應該也不會讓我陷入危險之中，所以我也只能相信她們訓練有術了！