Birth Control Options

If you elect for obstetric care to be provided by WCA, you will be an obstetric patient of all three physicians: Drs Anderson, Halbach, and McPherson. You will not be assigned a single primary obstetrician. During the course of a routine pregnancy you will have 14-15 appointments at WCA and see each obstetrician 4-5 times. Hopefully, by the time of your due date, you will be most comfortable with all three physicians.

Each of our physicians considers obstetrics a most rewarding profession and feels it is an honor to provide maternity care. However, obstetrics often demands extremely long hours of work during both day and night. In order for us to provide you with an obstetrician who is well rested, alert, and attentive to your care, we must rotate on-call services and can not guarantee that any one physician will deliver your baby.

If you are going to be delivered by scheduled cesarean section or induction of labor, we will make every effort to accommodate by providing the physician of your choice. All other after hours obstetric care will be provided by one of the three on-call obstetricians.

At approximately 18-20 weeks gestation, you will be scheduled to see Dr. Richard Rosemond, a perinatalogist, (700 Sunset Drive, Ste 301, Athens GA 706-549-0087) for a complete anatomical ultrasound of your baby. This ultrasound is done with the most state of the art ultrasound equipment and is successful in detecting potential physical birth defects. It can also determine the gender of your baby if you desire this information.

Dr. Rosemond is a Board Certified Perinatalogist and therefore his area of expertise is in obstetric ultrasound and high risk obstetrics. Although your pregnancy man not be considered a high risk pregnancy, this 18-20 week ultrasound will provide you with the most expert and professional assessment of your baby that is available.