Dontiera Roach

Review of Community of Hope DC

I ve attended COH midwifery my entire pregnancy fr...

I ve attended COH midwifery my entire pregnancy from my positive pregnancy test all the way until now (39wks). Overall it wasn t a bad experience until the end this entire time we ve addressed nothing but a birthing center birth and I ve seen several of their midwives even attended birthing center 101. Then about week 35 my appointments begin to get rescheduled and once i was supposed to be seen every two weeks but haven t been seen for a month; I voice my issues. Spoke with the head lady she basically stated they have a heavy work load and I m not displaying any warning symptoms so I m good. Had a whole convo then peacefully ended the call. All for me to go to my appointment the next day to be told she put a note in my chart stating due to my BMI i can t have a center birth. Remind you I m 39weeks and at no point has any other one of her midwives brought it up. Even when i seen the head lady in March now all of a sudden i don t qualify. Which is foolery my BMI was over 30 from the beginning and nothing was ever said. They know another center won t pick up you to birth there if you re passed 37 wks and so this is a complete bs thing. I spoke with 3 other centers that stated my BMI wouldn t disqualify me as long as that the only factor everything else had been healthy.
With all this being said make sure you dot your i s and cross your t s so you won t be blindsided by the last minute foolery a week before your baby is due. Be careful because no one excepts you after 37wks except for a hospital birth so you ll be stuck with them.