There are midwives and birth centers here (www.birthcenter.com) and they are
covered by company health insurance (which is really really good insurance,
dang near everything is covered without co-pays or deductables) You can
always consult with one of the midwives and see if they would take you on,
they took me on after a high risk pregnancy and things were great but we had
a complication at the end and they did transfer me to University of
Washington.

As far as your previous question about biking to work, if you're planning on
renting at first there are several apartment complexes within a mile of main
campus. There are a lot of people that ride to work, one of DH's friends
rides 5 miles each way to work without problem. You can also get a free bus
pass and ride then take the bus. A lot of the buildings have showers to
clean up after they ride as well.

There is housing off of 156th to the east that's close to main campus.


"Anne Rogers" wrote in message
...
thanks for the answers, I have another quite general question, are there
midwives and/or birth centres? It would be quite likely that we would have
another baby out there. I'm fairly demanding in what I want, I'd want to
be cared for by an obstetrician antenatally as I don't seem to have easy
pregnancies, but I'd like to be midwife attended at the birth, hopefully
at home, which is possible in the UK, but from what I understand midwives
in the US tend to pass you over to complete consultant care if anything
goes wrong.

Anne