Sadly my daughter and daughter in law were both uneccessarily sent to the hospital and both had to do hospital birth because of Betty Kibble. Its very deceiving to promote yourself as a midwife to do homebirths then at the end of pregnancy send the client to the hospital for false crisis. Not acceptable. This woman needs to retire! read more

Won't bore you with the details but Bette got angry when we chose not to go to her hospital of choice. Left while I labored, and did not visit to check on baby for well over week, and never went near him or even acknowledged him! We did go to small claims court where she submitted False documents that we did not get to view until a decision was already made. Shocked to see still is in the business. Would never recommend. Never. I COULD write a book but I think that is enough info for anyone looking for a caring provider during this delicate and vulnerable moment. read more

My son's birthday is a reminder that I still have not written a review of the midwife that doesn't deliver. This year I have the energy. I regret that I did not see all the terrible reviews Bette Kibble had before we hired her to be our midwife in 2020. I am a big supporter of midwives and birthing education. I have had two other midwives and four successful home births. When I was four months pregnant with our fifth child, my husband took a job transfer and we moved to Arizona. I didn't know anyone there but I was not too concerned about who the midwife was as it was not my first baby. This was during the spring/summer of 2020 during COVID. I liked that Bette would come to our house for prenatal visits. However, the time we spent together wasn't very valuable. The handouts she gave were copies of copies which made them hard to read and they were outdated. I threw them away. I have taken two 8-week long Bradley method courses with previous pregnancies and am grateful for the content I learned there. I can't imagine being a first time mom having Bette as a midwife! There are several things that were flags with Bette and I should have listened to them. If I had one word to describe her it would be anxious. The other midwives I have experience with are calm, precise, and knowledgeable. She mentioned how nervous she would be if it rained when I had to deliver. She said she may get trapped and not get to the house. What?! This was the driest and hottest season on record at the time in Arizona. She ran out of breath walking up the stairs in our home. How can she endure a home delivery? She tested my dilation several times and it hurt. None of my previous midwives needed to do that. All of my children have been born around 41 weeks. This is consistent for the women in my family and my birthing history. When I got to the 41 week day she had me go in for a stress test. I was not concerned. The technician said the baby looked "beautiful" and I was ready to go back home. Did Bette feel better now? No, she asked that they check if I had enough fluid. Again, I laid back down. Keep in mind, I had already been on my back for over 30 minutes while being masked trying to complete a second test. At this duration of pregnancy, the last place I wanted to be is on my back. I complied. The nurse said that I had a lot of fluid and that I was 3cm dilated. After the tests, Bette said she would not deliver at my home any longer. I called my husband and told him that I would be checking into the hospital for delivery. He had to leave our four children with people we hardly knew from church to be with me in the hospital. We moved down to AZ during COVID away from family and weren't able to meet or interact with many people. Bette came with me to the delivery room until my husband got there but sat on the couch and chatted with the nurses. Her bedside manner was cold. It felt like I was sitting in on their conversation. She shared how she was 73 years old at the time with the nurse. This was 4 years ago! How is she still practicing? It sounds like for some she was great over 30 years ago. Those days have clearly passed. We also rented a birthing tub from her. This was also money wasted. I am grateful to share that the delivery in the hospital went well. I advocated for myself and was confident in my body and baby. I asked them to take off the heart monitor so I could move freely and turn down the lights. I had to take two COVID tests between contractions. They called me their home birth patient even though I was not a transfer. Very belittling. I gave birth standing and my husband caught our son. The last 30 seconds a large group of uninvited nurses came into the room to watch the delivery but at that point I was in the final push and could not tell them to get out. We paid the hospital for the labor and delivery expenses. Later, Bette came to visit our home after our son was born. It felt like an enstranged great-aunt coming to "ooh" and "ahh" over a baby. She held him briefly and after five minutes asked if I had any questions. I asked if she would compensate us for any of our $4k payment as she didn't start seeing me until I was 24 weeks and was not there for labor or delivery. She said no. Looking at the other reviews, it is obvious that Bette is unsuitable for this position. She seems fraudulent and continues to accept $4k checks and create an excuse to get out of labor/delivery. I see she has been taken to court multiple times. I regret that we did not also do that but it takes an incredible amount of energy for a family with a newborn to do so. What an insult to midwifery! Beware Bette! read more

Bette Kibble delivered or helped with all 3 of my beautiful babies... That was over 30 years ago

We didn't know if we should do a review, but ultimately, we're doing it for you, for you to make an educated choice on your midwife. Of course, choosing the right midwife is one of the most important aspects of a healthy and happy home birth. We, like others, thought Bette's age would equal so much experience and knowledge, but we were very wrong. Check out the other reviews she has, she doesn't have one good one. The only good review she has is from her. It was very hard for us to change plans so last minute and I struggled with feeling so guilty about it and losing so much money. In the end, we had a beautiful birth at Banner and our baby was born 7lbs 10oz of pure perfection. I also had a very stress-free pregnancy until week 36 when we were nearly forced to make other plans last minute since Bette was instilling so much doubt in us, which of course, we didn't appreciate that stress so last minute in our pregnancy journey. I'm sure there would be way more negative reviews on Bette if after baby came, the entire family wasn't so completely exhausted. She does not have a good reputation within the community. Unfortunately we found this out too late. After talking with multiple mothers that had home births, surprisingly to find out with Bette, hearing their horrible experiences for multiple reasons, of which you'd think a midwife with 40 years of experience would be more than suited to handle, the experiences these poor women went very wrong, and they assured us we "dodged a bullet". We couldn't agree more. Bette is a sweet old lady, with a very conservative approach and seems she pushes people toward transferring care and then stands by her contract to not have to refund any money, which is the worst part- it leaves people, new families, feeling robbed and taken advantage of and worse, their dream of a home birth stripped, unless they want to hire the one other midwife in town, if they can afford to at that point. We did end up having baby at the hospital. Bette's "favorite" hospital didn't have anything good to say about her. In fact, most staff knew of her, but didn't know her, since "she never shows up for a birth." Typically, one would think that if you hire a midwife for a couple thousand dollars, which our insurance did not pay for, even if, in the end, you needed to deliver in a hospital, pre- pandemic, your midwife would be right by your side, either coaching you, supporting you, or actually delivering your baby. Not Bette. It sounds like she transfers as many of her patients to the hospital as she can and then she doesn't show up for the actual birth. We also later found out Bette has been taken to small claims court several times, which isn't good news for either parties. Our Story- We found Bette on the internet and had a phone interview with her, where I took detailed notes, told her that we lived an hour south, and everything seemed great. We were excited to work with her. We also liked that she is an older midwife that had years of experience. We first met with Bette at week 20, and the next day, paid her in full for her service. We saw her once a month for the first few months. Everything was looking great until week 28 when I found out I had gestational diabetes, fully controlled by diet, and I am also 35. As soon as I got the gestational diabetes stamp, we felt like she was pushing us towards having baby at Banner. Bette was never interested in looking at my results from my daily glucose monitoring, where she could clearly see everything was completely controlled. Yet, she wanted to repeat to me, over and over, that I was, for sure, going to have a very large baby, which made us feel like she was very reluctant to drive 1 hour to our house to deliver our baby. In fact, when we told Bette my cousin went into natural child birth at 38 weeks and asked if that happened to us if she would come down, she flat out said no. That is when we knew we needed to decide on another plan. I did everything Bette asked of me, we commuted to her for every appointment, scheduled all our own appointments at the hospital, did the twice a week non-stress tests and sonograms to check baby's size/weight. In the end, we could tell Bette was not comfortable with a home birth. We got the vibe it was more because she didn't want to commute to us, as she kept mentioning how "rural" it is, which it is not. We're a less-than-20-minute drive to the hospital, which is similar for even families in Tucson. Most of my girlfriends have had to commute 20 minutes or more, in large cities, to either a birthing center or the hospital. We felt that Bette was also stringing us along. She kept saying we had a 50/50 chance of having a home birth, but she just didn't know. She wanted us to tell the hospital we weren't using her service anymore, when we were trying to continue with her, which was confusing and I didn't appreciate having to "lie" to the hospital. We wish she could have just been clear with us. I would say, with confidenc read more

Didn't know how to read my chart from the birth center. My phone interview with her went well. Our first "free" consultation went well, she offered to let us listen to the babys heartbeat. I paid her in full at my second appt. The day after she left, I felt uneasy. The second appt didn't feel right, she wasn't kid friendly with my other 3 children. My oldest wanted so badly to put the gel on my belly for the Doppler and Bette just couldn't handle it. (We were in my house, on my couch, so it would be my mess, if there was one!) I continued to see her even though I didn't feel comfortable with her. I figured this was going to be our 3rd homebirth (1st with Bette) so really we just wanted someone there "just in case." She had given me the choice for GBS test, which I declined. But when the time came she said she "had" to do it (come to find out because of her miss understanding what my chart from the birth center said). So I let her, while performing test she decided to "check" me. Which I never would have agreed to had I had a minute to even process what was happening down there! My test came back positive and she told me to follow a long extensive protocol and we would retest in a week. I asked what happens if the test still came back positive and she told me "no AZ doctor will allow a homebirth with a GBS+ mother." This seemed excessive to me so I started searching. And would you believe she lied to me! That is not the AZ law! I contacted the President of the AZ Association of Midwives in Phx and she clarified what the requirements are and said it didn't sound like I was very confident or comfortable with my choice in midwife for my homebirth. At this point I was already 36 week and figured it was too late to transfer, that no other homebirth midwife would take me on a client. The President assured me one of the other Tucson homebirth midwifes would! So I contacted Amy Zenzio and she not only took me on but was AMAZING! She got up to speed ASAP and put me and my husband at complete ease knowing we were not doing anything wrong or dangerous. She made sure i followed the states requirement for GBS+ but didn't pressure me to do anything I was not comfortable with. Bette...well she kept us stressed for almost 8 month after the birth. We had to take her to court to get some of our money back. We were not asking for all of our money but what we felt was fair for the 7 visits we had with her. She fought us till the end. And showed up to court completely unprepared, disorganized and admitted that she had been to small claims court before! The judge did award us with a refund, not to the amount we were seeking (she lied about having an office for clients, she doesn't have one). She did not send us the refund in the appropriate court order time, so we had to go back to the court house to file additional paperwork. Thankfully, a nice Constable, called her for us and scared her into sending us our refund within 72 hours! He also told her that her address for her "place of business" is city property and therefore can not be where her "office" is. Pretty confident she lied under oath at our court hearing. After all this I have heard so many horror stories from prior Bette Kibble clients. I am sooo thankful we didn't "stick it out" so many women did not get the homebirth they wanted/planned for because Bette made up reasons for a transfer, didn't show up for the birth or she did but sat in a chair and watch from the sidelines like she was high! I have seen some women have had good experiences with her, which leads me to believe that one ladies traumatic birth experience with Bette and her appearing to be on some type of drug could very well be true and the reason for her inconsistency. Like I said this was my 3rd homebirth and homebirth is AMAZING. If you are wanting a homebirth, don't chance it with Bette. You don't know what you might get! Go with someone who has reivews that are easy to find. Bette is hard to find reviews on because over the years prior clients of hers (that I have spoken with) had written reviews but Bette uses her energy to get them removed! If you look at some of the other Tucson midwives you will find reviews easily and they aren't all glowing, which means they are truthful! read more

Saw her only a few times before changing midwives. Tired. Late. And not good with our kids. This was our fourth birth and something seemed off, she seemed confused and not up to date. The worst part was that after only a couple visits she tried to keep the entire fee, but after taking her to small claims court we won some of our money back. There are so many great midwives in Tucson, go with someone else. read more

I'm Tami, or as you seem to know me on Yelp as Suzanne Patrick. I never had talk of a breech baby ever in my pregnancies, I never had talk of paramedics in my pregnancies, I've never thrown an oxygen mask in my life. We used to live next to Ryan's Airfield, a 25 minute drive from the UofA- I have never been to Three Points in my life. Our baby was crowning on our SUV front seat as we raced by you at nearly 80mph. I asked for pain meds on arrival but the Doc said & I quote, "not a chance, I can see the top of the baby's head." Our baby was out 37 minutes later. Anyone that knows me knows that I would never let anyone "hold my leg", let alone as I was giving birth. To this day stand more firmly behind what I wrote as Suzanne P. My husband laughed with disbelief at your Yelp review response to my Suzanne P. review. And why on Earth are you writing people's private medical information and MIS-information on the World wide web?! read more

Our experience felt like we were ripped off of $4,000+. Every visit Kibble seemed tired, busy, forgetful of documents, never remembered the sex of our baby & when labor came, she showed up over two hours later. "Call when you are 3 minutes apart", she said. After saying she would be with us within the hour, she finally showed up 2+ hours later- me in deep pushing stage. She came with no gas in her car & could not only not transfer when the time came, but then showed up late to the hospital because she had to stop & get gas. She stated that transfer would be done by her if there was an emergency & then didn't even show up with gas. We live outside city limits, so thank god our vehicle was prepared. She made sure to tell the hospital staff sorry for being late to my birth experience, yet never apologized to my husband or I. She caught the last few minutes of UMC delivering my baby; I didn't even realize she was in the room. She transferred us for prolapsed cord at 39 weeks, too. However, UMC disagreed with Bette & said everything looked great; no sign of prolapsed cord whatsoever. Labor day (at 40 weeks) I was transferred for meconium & baby heart rate, when I got to UMC, they said that there was no sign of meconium but that the baby & I looked "great" and he was coming out right then. She was incredibly wrong in her prolapsed cord & meconium diagnosis. Kibble managed to scare us intensely twice in my final two weeks of pregnancy & then was wildly disappointing on our due date. My birth went great at UMC & we were released right at 24 hours- because we were so healthy. If you are looking for a midwife with startling few reviews after 30 years service in Tucson, a birth pool patched with tape over it's holes, archaic tools/preparation, a schedule varying on whenever she decides to show up- checkup or delivery, then by all means drop your $4k on Midwife Kibble. As for us, our next baby will be delivered at UMC, because they were exceptional. In my husband's words: It just seemed like she didn't care. That her job doesn't interest her any more & she should probably retire soon. I couldn't agree with him more. He said this at 37 weeks & I regret not listening to him seriously. Overall- not worth the risk. read more

My experience with Bette was truly disappointing. Had I known that she would offer no care or support for me when I was transferred to the hospital then I would have never continued with her in the first place. I ended up going to the hospital for my delivery as my water had been broke for some time and I was having no contractions. Bette simply sat in the corner of the room as I went through contraction after contraction and never once offered me any support, comfort, or even information on how to handle these contractions I was experiencing for the first time in my life. Here is a woman who as been to over a hundred births, has my money in her bank account, and can't offer me even a lower back massage or simple coping technique. And to top it off, when I got up to go to the bathroom I heard her say to one of my dearest friends that I would probably be getting an epidural as I was not handling the contractions well at all. You have no idea how devastating that was to hear. She then left the hospital that night and wasn't back until after my son had been delivered the next morning. She told my husband that even if she had been ready to come when he called she wouldn't have made it in time... he called her at 9:40 am, how was she not ready for her client who had been in labor all night? She even had the audacity to tell me that she used to stay through the nights with her clients but didn't do that anymore and that she went home because she needed to rest for another client's birth who was likely to deliver soon. At an appointment a month or so before I had my baby she had told me that births just weren't that exciting to her anymore and she just didn't get worked up like the young new midwifes did. I now can see what a red flag that was. I have since had several women tell me that she either missed their birth, have been cautioned by other women not to use her, or were unimpressed by how late she was that they didn't hire her at all. All I can advise is to save your thousands of dollars. read more

We decided only a few visits in that she was too tired, too unprofessional (this was not our first homebirth) Betty Kibble is downright unsafe! She is so forgetful, tired and spacey! Save yourself the headache and cost and go with ANYONE else! read more

Bette missed my home birth completely. She talked over me at appointments. She was late multiple times saying it was traffic every time when we scheduled appointments at the same time each week and she should have known about it. She did not offer to do any cleaning or set up for the birth ever. She argued with the fire fighters that came when I had to call 911, as she did not show on time, about which hospital to go to and where to pull in after she claimed I was badly bleeding and torn and needed to go to the hospital. She showed up late and tried to justify herself and her "care" while I was getting 1 stitch at the hospital. I tore "so bad" I got 1 stitch total. Thanks for the $3000 hospital bill I didn't need. But then she claims we had to go because my baby was purple when she came out and had a mycomium poop all over. Not so. The hospital didn't even blink at the supposed myconium in the placenta idea. The firefighter who helped deliver my placenta said I was fine at my home and were leaving when she said we needed to go to the hospital because I tore only. It was after she realized her mistake at our 1 total post partum appointment that she claimed the other reasons for going to the hospital. She was impossible to get a hold of after our child was born. When I called to tell her how dissatisfied and disappointed we were with her services she started accusing me of not listening to her and opening my door late to an appointment she rescheduled the day before. She always had an excuse. She then told me she would offer a free follow up at my child's 5 week mark and never called me and when I called she didn't call back. I tried several times to report her to the Arizona midwife association and they never got back to me. We had to have her fill out insurance paper work 3 times. Our insurance closed our case and denied any payment because they could not get a hold of her and she filled the paperwork out incorrectly. How is that possible? People need to know what a rip off and DANGER her services are. Please don't use this woman to deliver your child. read more

If you want a midwife that will not be at your labor/delivery, Bette is the woman for the job. Imagine Mr. Magoo decided to become a midwife, and you paid him $4k, up front, for his services. That is about the only thing to which I can possibly compare our experience. She didn't listen to us, and forgot just about everything each time she came over. She was constantly late, and she wouldn't answer our questions, but at least we had the pleasure of hearing her talk in circles. Oh, did I mention she didn't show up to the delivery until well after the baby was born? Look, Bette is a fine person, heck, she would be entertaining to visit at a nursing home, and you could listen to her ramble on for hours of nonsensical worthlessness. It's possible she was a decent midwife in her day, but that day was probably 30 years ago, and I do not believe her to be fit to still be practicing. I am honestly concerned that she is still driving herself around. I want to make sure other unsuspecting couples do not make the same mistake we made. Look elsewhere for your midwifery needs. read more