I saw Dennis for my twins (fourth and fifth babies) after feeling like the large tertiary hospital I was at was not respecting my wishes and undermining my ability to birth my babies safely with minimal intervention. As a student midwife I have access to all the literature about best practise for twin births, and found Dennis followed all this without pushing it onto me (e.g., most literature supports induction at 38-39 weeks, Dennis indicated this is what he would like to do, but respected my wishes to wait til I was 40 weeks). Dennis was thorough, without being too risk averse, I felt that he trusted pregnancy and birth as a normal process rather than a major medical event. He was very experienced, able to find the twins' heartbeats easily and knew their positions by simply palpation (compared to the hospital who insisted on a million ultrasounds). In the end I had a beautiful birth, everyone missed the first twin because it was so quick, and Dennis helped me birth the second twin who was breech, in a no fuss easy going manner, but taking necessary precautions to make sure we were all safe. I could not recommend him highly enough.

Approximate cost: $2,500?