Seeking OB/GYN in Portland Area on Short Notice

I delivered at OHSU with the midwife group there and LOVED them! I saw Ellen Tilden at most of my prenatals and Linda Glenn was the midwife who was there for delivery. They really are a top-notch group....I was very impressed!

I really liked Dr. Jenna Murray and she delivers out of Legacy Good Sam which is on your list. Her office is across the street from Good Sam. I found her to be very open-minded and helpful.

Good luck with your search and congratulations on your pregnancy!

If I were you, in addition to asking moms, I would go to one or two of the hospitals (your preference)for a tour and when you are there ask the delivery nurses who their favorite doctors are. That's another great way to get a solid recommendation. You've gotta do the tours anyhow to pick your hospital.

As for my recos: Portland OBGYN Associates
http://www.pogapdx.com/
Great practice, top doctors. My doctor is Dr. Sang. The practice includes Dr. Ono (comes is as one of the top OBGYN docs in PDX every year) as well as Dr. Moore, and other notable OBGYNs. Not all take new patients unless the pregnancy warrants it (complications, multiples, etc), but check out their profiles on the website and call them. They prefer to deliver at Good Sam.

Another recommendation - Dr. Laura Morrison, Women's Healthcare Association (Nr. St Vincent's Hospital).

Hope that helps.

Woman's Health Care Associates is at Legacy Meridian Park. It is located in Tualatin and their phone number is ###-###-####.

We used their other clinic that is for high risk pregnancy until I delivered in July now I am seeing a ob/gyn there.

They also have an office next to St Vincent hospital but they deliver in that hospital.

They don't do infant care and I am not sure I have heard of any ob/gyn that also care for children.

Here is a pediatrician recommendation that is located in the building right next door to Woman's Health Care Assoc. also next to Legacy Meridian Park Hosp. The Children's Clinic ###-###-####. I have been using this office for 11 years now. We wouldn't want to use any other pediatrician.

Womans Health Care Assoc. www.whallc.com/

The Children's Clinic www.childrens-clinic.com

Have a safe and happy pregnancy and travels.

Using a midwife is a great idea. If that's out of your comfort zone and if you would like the OB to also be pediatrician, you might consider a family practice doctor that does both. I know and love Dr. David Farley in West Linn (West Linn Family Health Center). He does deliveries and pediatrics (so does Dr. Scott, in the same practice. I love him too). I haven't personally delivered babies with them, but have several friends who have and they've all been very very happy with them. Good luck!

I have a fabulous OB/GYN at OHSU that I would recommend in a heartbeat. Dr. Meg O'Reilly is phenomenal...unfortunately that also means she has a VERY full schedule, but if you provided the nurses with more information about your situation and let them know you were referred by a patient of Dr. O'Reilly's you might have luck getting into her schedule. I don't know of any OB's who also do peds work, but I would also recommend Dr. Dana Hargunani at Doernboecher's Children's ____@____.com both Dr's being up "on the hill" it was very easy for my son and I to both have appointments on the same day and scheduled accordingly. Best of luck...and congratulations!

Welcome back to Portland,briefly :) ...

For consistent pre-and-post care, you might consider a midwife. Their standard care extends to the 6 week checkup--at least for the lay midwives, and I'm pretty sure for the nurse-midwives as well. I haven't been in the market for a while, but I'm pretty sure the OBgyns don't do that because their certifications and training don't include postnatal ...

Although I liked my midwives, I won't recommend them directly ... a websearch will turn you up many Portland midwives and midwife collectives, with a pretty good sense of their mission statements etc etc., and what a woman is attracted to or not is pretty individual. (You've given no choices except location of coverage (a couple of your hospitals have nurse midwives with permission to practice) and 'will take me on late term' (probably most midwives--I'm sure I'm not the only mom who ever arrived, seven months pregnant, to interview midwives when it became clear I needed to change providers!).)

We were covered for hospital birth 4/4 times but only covered for midwifery once, so we paid out of pocket the other three times (although if there had been a major complication the midwives would of course have had us transported to a hospital) ... it was important to us for a variety of reasons I won't bother you with if doctors and hospitals are the way you want to go :). (I think the number one predictor of a good birth is how safe the woman feels, because it so directly affects the actual physical process ... so go with your gut for sure when choosing!!)

As for doctors, the only OB-gyn office I've recently visited was Dr. Thomas Flath, at Women's Clinic, and I really liked him ... he really met me where I was at (a smidge of a challenge given my general offset with the medical establishment), but then I went in wanting very specific things and made sure we were both clear on that (eg., the second time I went in, I needed to talk about something and that didn't need me to disrobe ... so I didn't, and he was fine with that, and invited me into his office instead). Lest I give the wrong impression, he was very AMA, very MD, if I were into hospitals and all that, he was clearly A Doctor ;). And he didn't talk down to me, which was exceptional I thought for an older male doctor speaking to a young(ish ;) ) female in distress ... well, except maybe once ... but it sounded like a holdover from an old patter, and I shut it down right quick with my reply.

I'd been so long out of the system I forgot to check if he does abortions, which I know is a string pro or con for a lot of women, choosing their gyn and especially choosing an OBgyn ... normally for me too.

(Someone recently told me that gyn is a surgical specialty and OB isn't?? so anyhow, that might relate to one's chances of caesarian as well, if you just had an OB instead of an OBgyn ... because the focus of training is where one turns under stress. Which is why *I* chose midwifery ;), in which a wide range of 'normal' birth is admitted, and the woman's sensations are the driving manager ... .)

An OB practice with CNMs (certified nurse midwives) might be able to provide the postnatal checkups ...

If you're interested in going with a midwife, instead, I've done a lot of research on the topic recently, myself, since I'm newly pregnant and planning a home-birth. I'm using Catherine Schaefer at "A Gentle Beginning" (www.agentlebeginning.com). She's both a nurse midwife and a naturopathic doctor (specializing in pediatric care). She only does home-births, though. Although my insurance states that they don't cover home-births, they are actually covering our expenses at the out-of-network rate because she is a nurse midwife. I also interviewed with the midwives at "Vivante Midwifery" (www.vivantemidwifery.com) and really liked them. They are nurse midwives, as well, and are rather unique in this area, in that they handle both home births and births at OHSU. They also provide the initial newborn care.

I was in a similar situation with my first pregnancy . . . I was living in the Philippines, but developed some complication during my pregnancy that necessitated my return home at 32 weeks. I was very fortunate that I found a doctor (searching blind while I was in the Philippines) who was willing to take me that late in my pregnancy and who I ended up really liking. That was in Tacoma, though. Everything turned out great for us. All the best to you and good luck in your search!