Christina, what area of Buffalo do you live in? I like my family doc
(in East Aurora) he's also our ped. He has been good at working
collaboratively with us when we didn't want to follow the 'norms'.

Simbapurr (sorry, don't know your name) I'm very sorry to hear about
your losses too. That must have been very difficult. Dr Sanfillipo
did my c-section with my son. She wasn't my primary doctor at that
practice, but I can't fault her at all. She did a fine job at the
surgery. However, for other reasons, I will not use that practice
again. Primarily because I believe my first pregnancy was mis-
managed, including a range of unneccessary interventions that in my
opinion ultimately led to me having to have a c-section in the first
place. Secondly, I do not think they would really be supportive of
VBAC either, based on my experience with them in that they seem to
prefer to practice 'defensive medicine'. I also had no personal
problem with the doctors in that practice. They all seem like very
nice people. I didn't care for Dr Santos, but I only met him once.

I'm still looking!
Alli

--- In icanofbuffalo@yahoogroups.com, Christina Lyons
<christinaglyons@...> wrote:
>
> Wow. Thank you for you response. I can't even imagine what you have
been through. I just wanted some insight as we have had a hard time
finding any doctor - ob or ped or gp - in Buffalo that treat you like
a human being and a partner in your health. It has been the most
trying time for us and disappointing since we like so many aspects of
Buffalo. It has truly been a shock to the system. So sorry for your
losses.
>
>
> --- On Fri, 2/6/09, Simbapurr@... <Simbapurr@...> wrote:
>
> > From: Simbapurr@... <Simbapurr@...>
> > Subject: [icanofbuffalo] Re: VBAC friendly providers in Buffalo?
> > To: icanofbuffalo@yahoogroups.com
> > Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 6:18 PM
> > I had Diane Sanfillipo (might not be spelled correctly) in
> > 2007 for my pregnancy with little Fiona(5/24/07).  She is
> > in a practice with Santos and a few others, in Orchard Park.
> >  Dr. Santos is also very good.  I liked Dr. Sanfillipo a
> > lot, very upfront, honest.  Unfortunately I didn't get
> > far enough to really plan a VBA2C with her and I doubt she
> > would have been supportive.  Not many drs are supportive of
> > VBA2C though, especially given my history because my little
> > Quinn (8/26/04-11/28/05) experienced significant brain
> > damage and lived for 15 mos and 2 days.  I really don't
> > think it was related to the VBAC attempt, but OBs tend to be
> > quite spooked with those situations.  Anyway, I really
> > liked the drs in that practice in OP.  There was only one
> > that I didn't care for.  And I have enough life
> > experience now that if someone isn't doing what they
> > should for me, they're fired.  I still didn't get a
> > living baby, but it wasn't her fault.  Most of them
> > held out hope for a miracle and they were supportive and
> > encouraging, right up until the end.  I got my VBA2C, but
> > we all knew that Fiona wouldn't survive for long because
> > it was just too early.  Even in the aftermath of
> > Fiona's birth and death, Diane looked me in the eye and
> > tried to help as much as she could.  I'm sorry that I
> > can't be more specific, but I am out of state because my
> > 60 yr old active mother died of complications of pancreatic
> > cancer last week.  With my mom's deat
> > h on top of everything else in my life, I'm really not
> > thinking very clearly, so my apologies that I can't be
> > more helpful.  My issues with Dr. P are from during/after a
> > mc for my April baby in Sept 2006.  It's a long,
> > traumatic story that I don't care to discuss.  To his
> > credit, I did get a response to my letter and from what I
> > hear, he doesn't treat other women like he treated me
> > back then.  I guess there is that stereotype that women
> > fall in love and worship their drs and it's better to be
> > cautious and realistic.  
>