Has anyone ever had a bad midwife experience?

Why did she have a horrible experience? In the UK we only get midwifes, so we have to put up with them if they’re bad or not, i personally love my midwife, she’s well knowledged and is very attentive to my needs.

I had a midwife with my first and loved it we had a great experience….with my second i used a regular doctor and missed the relationship..i felt like i was just another patient to her..so with this pregnancy i went back to a midwife…and i wish i would of just kept my doctor…shes a good doctor and very nice i just feel like she doesnt really help or awnser my questions right…shes very “all natural” so its hard to ask questions about getting my tubes tied after and things like that…but its okay this is my last baby and im due in a week so hopefully the birthing experience will be nice and quick

ive never used one personally i just dont trust them id must rather have a dr who is fully prepared for anything that could happen a midwife isnt i just dont want to put my childs life in the hands of someone who isnt fully experienced with everything..

I have heard of some, but I haven’t had one.

One midwife in particular in our area (I’m in the US by the way) runs a very busy birth center. She has lots of clients, so less time to offer comfort measures. She gave a friend’s baby a bottle instead of supplementing with a cup feeder. She doesn’t inform mom of what’s going on the way one would expect from a midwife. She uses techniques that render the mom a passive participant in birth rather than an active one. In general, she’s just sort of gruff.

I haven’t met her but I have been told I don’t want to. My midwives are great though. There are two already-licensed midwives and then an apprentice (who is actually a friend of mine and is doing all of my prenatal care and the delivery, supervised by one of the others). I feel confident we’ll have a great birth with their help

Edit: Looking at the details, it does seem that the experience was horrible, but it’s possible that the midwife did the best she could. A midwife’s job is to facilitate a natural, healthy labor, and also to evaluate when and if it is necessary to transfer care to the hospital. A c-section may have been necessary for any number of reasons beyond the midwife’s control. I do think she should’ve gone with her to the hospital if possible, just for moral support and to help with breastfeeding and bonding after the birth.

my midwife was crap basically. id go 3 months until i got an appointment sometimes, even then id be lucky if she turned up. she forgot who i was and always thought i was having a boy. when i was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia she let me go a week overdue until she agreed to send me in for induction which was too late by then i went into labour naturally. she was useless and id never go back there when i have my next baby.

I had a horrible experience with a midwife when i went into hospital with severe bleeding resulting in premature labour.

The midwife kept pressuring me to tell her what i had taken and told me that the reason i was bleeding and going into premature labour was because of the drugs i had taken which i could understand if i took any drugs i never have in my life i explained this and she just mumbled somethin about it being my baby i was damaging.

I later found out from a student midwife that there had been a mistake and that a part of someone else’s notes were put in with mine , no aplogies or anything and i didnt see the first midwife again.

As if i wasnt going through enough as it was