“I have been fortunate to practice medicine in different countries on diverse continents. Having finished my medical school in Nigeria and subsequently training and practicing as an obstetrician/gynecologist in England, my foundations of collaboration with and appreciation of the need for mutual respect between midwives and obstetricians was formed. I learned a lot from deliveries that were done both in the hospital setting and also out of hospital deliveries in England. As is the case in many European countries, the majority of low risk deliveries are performed by midwives. It is usually the norm to have community midwives, hospital midwives and obstetricians all in the same team working in partnership.⠀

“Before becoming an Ob/Gyn, I had the opportunity to rotate through other medical specialties. My love for the field was born out of an appreciation as obstetrics/gynecology being the only specialty we have the privilege of caring for clients through all phases of life. Not only will you have an opportunity to get to know them before they have children, but also through the different milestones of their life afterwards, well into adulthood.”⠀⠀⠀⠀
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After training as an obstetrician in England, Dr. Ogunleye completed his residency at Good Samaritan Hospital (Cincinnati, OH). When he was the chief resident at Good Samaritan Hospital, he helped to start the faculty midwifery team to complement residency services. Since 2004, he has been in Bloomington, IL, practicing as an attending Ob/Gyn in private practice.
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His experience with assisting thousands of babies into the world has helped shape his understanding that birth is a physiological process that, the majority of times, needs minimal to no medical intervention. This philosophy has led him to work with like-minded people to open the first privately owned free-standing birth center in Illinois (the Birth Center of Bloomington-Normal) and in Colorado Springs (Beginnings Birth Center). Dr Ogunleye is married with three children, two of whom were caught by midwives.