Midwest OB Gyn & Midwifery

I’ve been part of this practice for years, so I’m completely shocked by the previous review. I have never had an negative experiences with any part of the office. The staff has been consistently pleasant and courteous with me. The fact that they can always find a way to squeeze me in if I am having an urgent issue has been a God sent at times.
As for the practitioners, I LOVE them! I’m dying to know who the previous reviewer was referring to because I cannot imagine that anyone currently there would act like that. It must have been someone who is no longer there, because the current 2 midwives and 2 physicians are super sweet.
I have referred countless friends and family to this practice and everyone is always very pleased. I am still just a gyne patient for now so I can’t say anything personally about the OB part. However, my cousin just delivered with the female doctor and loved her experience. Overall, I highly recommend this practice to everyone :)

Midwives, hooray! Right? Well, not so much.
I was so happy to have found hospital birth midwives. It was my first pregnancy, I wanted to birth in a hospital «just in case», but I also wanted 100% natural (unmedicated, self-​guided labor). So I went about my research and found that midwives would be my best bet to attain that.
I know I caught this group during an awkward transition from their large dozen midwife practice, to this small three (two and a half?) midwife plus an OB group. I had multiple clerical transgressions occur for prenatal appointments – wrongly scheduled appointments, unacceptably long wait times (sometimes an hour or more) both in the reception area and in the exam room.
But the worst part was that I felt I was duped. «Signing up» with this practice I was told that they would act as my labor support, at my side from 4 cm on, helping me do something I’d never done before. I wasn’t encouraged to take classes or hire a doula, just to read books if I felt like it. I was welcomed to my third trimester by being informed that they were too overloaded with clients, they would be unable to offer much – if any – labor support, THE OB MIGHT BE THE ONE TO CATCH MY BABY, and that I really should hire a doula if I wanted an all-​natural birth.
WHAT?!
Cue me rushing to find a doula, working the balls up to say that I did not want the OB (nothing against him, he was nice to say «hello» to and all, but I had never ever seen him for medical care!), and my husband was left to calm me down. They did agree to make an exception and have one of the midwives, for sure, be the one on-​call for me.
But then, oh then, I go in for my 39 (and some change) week appointment where I foolishly consented to an internal exam, and I’m pretty sure my membranes were stripped without my consent. Internal exams are never comfortable, so I can’t judge by that, but I was immediately cramping and having irregular contractions for days after that. Irregular contractions = no sleep = very tired by the time real labor started up. Also, «you may have some spotting and cramping,» is a pretty good tip off now that I remember those words she warned me *after* she had her hand in there. I’m still furious about that.
Blah, blah, natural labor, blah, very tired, get told I’m 10 cm so it’s time to push. Directed pushing was very much on my birth plan as something I did NOT want, but there I find myself propped up on my back, a nurse on one leg, husband on the other, and a midwife threatening to cut me if I didn’t push harder despite no medical complications indicating any need for such urgency. Yes, those actual words, «don’t make me cut you,» came out of her mouth when I was trying my hardest to get my daughter into the world.
I cannot with good conscious recommend this practice. I understand that they are doing a service, offering midwife services in a hospital setting, but I think they have perhaps drifted from the midwife ideals and fall much closer to OBs these days. I really truly wish I could say otherwise, but this is my story, and I would never go back to this practice.