UNT Midwives

I LOVE Kathleen Donaldson and the UNT group of midwifes!!
I see them for my primary care. I had all my babies with midwives affiliated with a hospital, so I am pro-midwife, as you can see.
The midwife group who actually delivered my boys (we delivered at Harris) actually left THR and now deliver at Baylor All Saints. Also a great choice, but I have to say there is a level of professionalism and care from the UNT group that wasn't really there with the other group. Regardless, you have made an excellent choice if you move forward with UNT.
Again, I have been going to them for almost 4 years and have nothing but glowing reviews.

I delivered with the UNT midwives in December at Harris downtown FTW. Love the UNT midwives, every one of them! The hospital, not so much. I wish very much that I had delivered at a birth center - don't know if the UNT midwives do that. At Harris, I got the natural labor and delivery I wanted, and the water birth I wanted. Harris has very large tub for birthing in, and now the UNT midwives have a bonafide birthing pool! So, every effort has been made to make the hospital natural labor and delivery friendly.

However, it's still a hospital. You will still have to deal with nurses for whom this all goes against their training. The post-partum part of the hospital was the toughest. Nurses and other staff constantly coming in to check things. It was noisy and I just wanted OUT. I left as soon as possible, almost went AMA (against medical advise) but was delayed enough to just barely make it to the 24 hr mark. If I had it to do again, I would have checked out the birth centers in the area.

A word of advice if you choose to deliver in the hospital, if you catch your own baby, then they can't take her away for all their unnecessary treatments. You get to hold her until you're ready to hand her over. For me, that was an hour of nursing and cuddling before I allowed her to be so much as weighed, and then after that I didn't give her up again for several hours.

I delivered with Aliza Chkaiban at Allen Presby. She works under Lawrence Pierce, MD. The office recently moved to McKinney (University & Lake Forest). Not sure if that is too far for you...###-###-####

I used them 2 years ago w/my second and loved all of them! They're great and I highly recommend them and Harris hospital was great too :)

My first baby I delivered at Baylor Richardson (now named something else) really bad experience. 2nd baby I had a midwife and even tho I ended up having another c-section, she was in the operating room with me and gave me support along with my hubby. I have another friend who is a midwife, she is really good. Her name is Lisa Black I think based in McKinney I think.

Bella Births: Center for Birth & Women's Health