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New Life Birth Svc
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I agree with the previous review that it's very important to interview several doctors/midwives before choosing someone to help deliver your children and we're very fortunate in Austin to have a large pool of midwives and doctors to choose from. Childbearing is a wonderful time but also a very vulnerable time for the mother emotionally. This makes it almost as important to find a caregiver whose personality works well with yours as it is to find a caregiver with lots of experience.
I chose MariMikel to help deliver our two children (ages 2 1/2 and 8 weeks old) partly because of her strong personality. She was also compassionate and capable when I came to her after a miscarriage a year and a half ago. I'm a little on the quiet side and can be indecisive. Right from the initial interview I felt that MariMikel's strong personality would be a welcome support as I ventured into pregnancy and childbirth for the first time.
I was not disappointed.
All my prenatal visits were 45 minutes to an hour long, and a good portion of that time was spent discussing any questions or concerns that I had and generally getting to know each other. She provided a wealth of information and resources about nutrition, birth, and postpartum care for mother and baby. It was clear that she keeps herself current on the latest research in all these areas. I found the videos shown in her childbirth classes very helpful. As one reviewer has pointed out, Marimikel spends some time in the videos sharing her own experiences and opinions. I felt these stories were shared friend-to-friend and mother-to-mother and I was grateful and very interested to hear her experiences since she has 6 children of her own. Marimikel and her apprentices were always easily available by phone at all hours of the day or night.
At the births themselves Marimikel arrived in a timely manner after I called. I felt that while she did all the appropriate regular checks on the baby?s heart rate and my progress she also gave my husband and I plenty of space to labor on our own. It was great to know we had help but we also had our privacy. If there was some small intervention that might need to be done (i.e. checking dilation, breaking the bag of waters, or a potential episiotomy which I didn?t end up getting) she explained the situation succinctly and whenever possible gave me a choice. She was sure to time the explanation and choice in such a way that I would have a chance between contractions to take it in without feeling too overwhelmed. There was one time at each birth when I started to panic a little because the contractions were so strong and she helped calm me down and focus me, which helped enormously to make everything seem doable again.
In the time after the birth MariMikel and her apprentices visited regularly, checked in often by phone, and encouraged us to call if we had the smallest question. Through the prenatal care, births, and postpartum periods it was clear to me that Marimikel sees doctors and hospitals as a wonderful tool that should be used when they are needed. She did not hesitate to send us to the ER when my oldest daughter seemed to be having respiratory trouble (my daughter and I caught a cold 2 days after I delivered her) and later when something seemed abnormal after my miscarriage.
On the whole my experiences with New Life Birth Services have been very positive. If and when we add another member to the family I?ll be calling Marimikel again.
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