I have been a patient of Dr. Welch's for over 8 years now and he had always been great. That was before I had a child. He was great throughout the pregnancy as well, that is until I decided to have an opinion about the delivery. I wanted to do hypnobirthing and he was ""supportive"" at first and then slowly started passive agressively making fun of my decision. I firmly stated (a number of times) that I did not want to be induced or have a c-section. At 38 weeks, he told me my pelvis was too small for my ""really big baby"" (who turned out to be 8 lbs 9 oz which to me is not gigantic) and also said he would not let me go past 41 weeks. I did lots of research and talked to lots of pregnant friends whose doctors let them go at least 10 days after their due date. He responded to this by saying (and roling his eyes) ""you did your research"" but basically bullied me into being induced at less than 41 weeks. I was in labor for 2.5 days and finally ended up having a c-section because he waited until I was so tired to tell me that I could either try to push my baby out only to have him ""get stuck"" and he'd have to push him back in and still have a c-section or I could just go ahead with the c-section. I had my son almost 7 weeks ago and I'm still so angry at how it all went down.\r
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If you want to be blindly led by your obstetrician, then go ahead and go to Dr. Welch, but if you want to make informed decisions about something as important as the birth of your child, then please, look elsewhere!
Pros: yearly physicals
Cons: childbirth; parking
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