OB docs for high-risk births - eg. twins

Hello everyone,
I have been lurking on this board for a while and using all your great informaiton.
I hope you can help me out.
I am currently living in Serbia and would not feel comfortable giving birth here, so I will be giving birth in Munich instead.
The situation is further complicated by the fact that we just found out we will be having twins! And that they are most likely monochorionic (share a placenta).
This makes the pregnancy somewhat more high-risk and I was hoping someone here could recomend a high-risk doctor or a doctor with experience in delivering multiples.
I appreciate your help and advice!
(sorry so long!)

Hi cpop - I can only recommend my ob/gyn as I think she is fantastic and I know she delivered at least 2 sets of twins last year. She only takes private patients and is affiliated with the Geisenhofer Frauenklinik here in Munich. I'm sure she'd be willing to even just talk to you over the phone if she was not able to cater for your high risk pregnancy; and would be definately able to refer you to another ob/gyn that could. She speaks perfect English.

Dr. med. Silke Dabelstein
Promenadeplatz 12
80333 Munich
Tel: 089 296971

Good luck and best wishes.

Congrats on the twin pregnancy!
Our twins are now 18 months old and despite being warned that the pregnancy was high risk, we ended up with two full size bubs that went full term and were 100% healthy. Even with twins, you can have a completely normal pregnancy - although you will be enormous once you pass around 30 weeks.
Our twins were born by emergency caesarian, after a text-book twin pregnancy. It was all handled extremely professionally and competently and while a little dramatic, we got the result we wanted - two healthy babies.
There is plenty of info out on the net on twin sites. My best advice is to prepare yourself as much as you can. Read anything about twins you can get your hands on, try to spend a day with someone who already has young twins so you can see what you are in for in terms of day-to-day routines, visit the hospital and ask to see their neo-natal intensive care unit so you know what to expect if your babies end up there.
Lots of luck and welcome to the Multiples club!
/Mo3
PS: Sorry - can't recommend a Dr unless you want to have your babies in Australia!

Hi there,

I'm expecting twins myself in a few months, and have been seeing Dr Roemish at the Fuenf Hoefe practice as a gynaecologist (he speaks fluent English since he worked in the US for a while). He recommended giving birth to my twins at Klinikum Grosshadern because they have the intensive care facilities for newborns, and should a caesarian be necessary, they can have the babies out of the womb within 3 minutes of deciding to do a caesarian (apparently this speed is unusually fast). He used to work at the hospital and so I guess he knows it quite well.

Dr Roemish
Frauenaerzte Fuenfe Hoefe
Amirapassage
Salvatorstr. 3
80333 Munich

Tel. (089) 25559590
www.f5h.de

I guess it's possible to follow the pregnancy through with the doctor at the hospital itself, rather than seeing a gynaecologist elsewhere. I've met the doctor in charge of obstetrics at the hospital - he was very nice, reassuring, helpful and spoke English, but unfortunately I don't remember his name. If you are interested, I could find it out.

If you wanted to check out the facilities at Klinikum Grosshadern, they have an open evening every Thursday at 6.30pm, where you can meet the midwives, doctors, see the rooms and ask any questions.

All the very best with your pregnancy!

hi cpop. it might be too late for the response, but i didnt see the chat till today. i am one of those patients hams reported. dr. dabelstein delivered my two healthy twin girls last year! ... also identical. so, good luck to you if you are still pregnant, if you delivered your babies already, feel free to ask more twin questions.

Can anyone recommend a good GYN that maybe specializes in high risk cases and IVF?

Thanks.

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