Nort Coast Childbirth pros/cons / Doctor recommendations etc.

My wife's gyno delivered our twins and is a first rate doctor.  His name is Dr Trejo and has a consultancy office in La Clinica Gregorio Hernandez in POP.

We don't rate the facilities at Gregorio Hernandez so he agreed to drive to Santiago to deliver our babies.  He works with the major insurers.

Is the Women's Hospital in Santiago worth looking at ??

chrisgy said:

God willing myself and la esposa will be welcoming a healthy baby into the family sometime next March. it's her first and my second.

She wants to change from Dr Franklin Medina to Dr Juan Oscar Souffront Rodriguez and wants me to sound out the gringo side for opinions.

She is considering the change based on recommendations from relatives and a friend that have used Dr. Souffront.

If it helps, her insurance company is ARS Humano (TSS)

Any help thats not already in the archives is welcomed . Thanks

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Felicidades

My son was born at a clinic in Santiago through invitro, the whole clinic is full of excellent doctors. Dr Ramon Espinal is the chief doctor and owner of the clinic.

http://iregci.com.do/

chrisgy said:

Yes, its one of our options for a natural birth.
We feel that if we stay in the POP area the likelihood is very slim that she will give birth naturally without cesarean

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My wife gave birth to our first one in POP. The second one was born abroad.

It might well be that there are very good professionals on the North Coast, but I would personally only recommend Santiago / Santo Domingo for this.

What I quoted, please be careful with this. C-section is "sold" pretty strongly here, when it's the contrary abroad. My wife's doctor in POP never even considered natural birth, when two professionals abroad were baffled (after examinations) as to why would she not be able to give natural birth. As far as we've seen, it's also common "knowledge" here that after one C-section you cannot give natural birth. This is false, there is no reason for natural birth not being possible if everything is fine... Again, confirmed by several professionals outside of this country...

To one cousin of my wife, only C-section was offered (in a public hospital), due to the fact that the doctor was tired and wanted go home already... Did not want to wait more to the cousin to have contractions...

chrisgy said:

I also found out in the process that getting getting insurance after one is pregnant is not necessarily a bar from getting coverage . A common myth found in these pages.

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It is not necessarily a myth if it is true even part of the time. There may be some companies that allow coverage after the start of a pregnancy and others that do not. The insurance companies I have dealt with , PALIC and HUMANO, do not cover pre-existing conditions. And after you have lived here for a while, you will also realize that rules are rules, unless they are not.

Glad it worked out in your case.