OB is important. Oh yes. OH yes.! Through all your pregnancies did you ever have the "high tech/on the cutting edge" OB who has you tested for everything included Spotted Owl Fever? And you spent most your pregnancy fraught with anxiety? That's the worst. I feel badly for mommies and daddies who get one of these. Especially, the first-timers. Makes pregnancy VERY frightening.
And then there's the AF-types, as you've referenced. (Holy Cow, my daughter delivered in mil hospital -- it was the nurses I brawled with -- the Doctors were SUPERB! They colluded with me in keeping the dictatorial nurses away from my daughter.)
There is civil war camp? What do the kids do?
Fortunately I've never had an OB who wanted to diagnose everything. They've tended to be laid-back. However, in a military hospital you get whoever shows up, and some are great, and some are awful. That's what the group practice was like - out of 7 doctors, a couple were excellent, four were just fine, and two were jerks. One of the jerks was on call when I went in to deliver, but fortunately his shift ended very shortly, and one of the nice ones showed up!
The new OB is a sole practitioner, so there won't be any surprises at delivery, I hope. (And I can always have it on the lawn at the Fire and Rescue station, if I have to :-).
Yes, there's Civil War camp. They march (a lot, I hope) and do Manual of Arms, and dig latrine pits, and cook over camp fires, and stuff like that. TaxDeduction3 is going, too.