Margerle

In my experience a woman healthcare provider is more likely to be of the mind "get over it, you're being a baby" or similarly uncompassionate position, because they ARE women.

Men seem to be more neutral or more compassionate for some reason. (Not that thats at all likely for either to be that heartless, but just more likely with women than men.)

Now there are certainly exceptions so I hope I'm not misunderstood.

I would go with either.

Lil_Baby_Boo

Due to complications Noah was (had to be) delivered by a man! He examined me a few times and I wasn't phased neither was my OH as far as I know!

I was pretty fine with it at the time although a few weeks later I was like
cos he looked like Jack from lost!!

I didn't get much sympathy from the female MW's (those who I dnt think had been through pregnancy & childbirth) at the Hosp but a lot from "Dr Jack"!

I'd quite like to have a man again! All I remember was him dancing in theatre as they were putting the gowns on him, dancing to REM - man on the moon!
Made me a bit more relaxed i think!

xx

PurestFeeling

I've found that I agree with this. The guys I work with are a ton more helpful with things like lifting heavy things or restraning the animals than any of the women are and all of these guys are prisoners in a work release program to get out of jail.

I wouldn't mind a male midwife if that was what I was going for but I prefer a doctor and hospital. Most of the doctors are males here. At first I wanted a female but now I just want someone who knows what they're doingand can help me have a healthy baby. My curent doc is a male and my only problem is he's a little distant, doesn't seemed concerned with what worries us or any of our questions but he has delevord hundrens of babies and is often busy.

lewster

i delivered with a male midwife, i think at first DH wasn't sure but at the end of the day when you arrive at hospital and already 9cm dilated the only thing i wanted was to get the baby out!
He was a lovely guy, gave lots of encouragement and it wouldn't bother me in the slightest if i had a man again.
I ended up needing a ventouse delivery so another male doctor had to come in and oversee things but like i say at that point in time all you want is to give birth, the gender of the people present was the last thing on my mind.

toriaaaaTRASH

At the time, I'm really not going to care who's delivering her aslong as they know what they're doing..

Linzi

yeah same here, I really would rather see a male than a female. Ive found as well that my internals that have been done by men were always a lot less painful than the ones done by women.

xxx

Jayne

You took the words right out of my mouth, lol! I'd much rather have a male midwife as I too feel really uncomfortable around women.

Although my GP is female and she's the best GP in the world, but I think it'd be quite cool to have a male midwife. A GAY male midwife would be perfect, we could talk about the gay nightclubs in London (when I go clubbing, it's usually to a gay club), we could discuss fashion, hair, music, etc. How brilliant!!

That's not gonna happen, is it?

RachieH

Well I don't mind males down there as long as they are old and ugly haha....I find it quite embarrassing when they are young and lovely!
......Oddly I prefer my Consultant gynae to be male, I think bizaarly I have more faith in men in medicine (How sexist does that sound?!!!)...and perhaps subconsciously I believe they know womens bits better than women as they erm...mess in that area more! lol

tinytoes

My OB is a man. Doesnt bother me one bit. It's maybe mroe weird for DB but for me it doesnt bother me. Snap Toriaa - as long as the person down there knows what they're doing I'm happy - man, woman or lady-boy.

vicky9207

i had my baby 3 weeks ago. i had all females except for the a man who did the epi but then he went away again. n i hpe 4 it 2 be all female which it was but when i was in labour i didnt care cos i was that high n just wanted the baby out lol