I was really surprised to have such an awful experience here after all of the great reviews. I was referred here by my midwife due to higher than normal amniotic fluid levels, considered “moderate”.
First, upon signing in, I was told to blindly sign things without being able to read them first. Weird, but I took the receptionists word and did sign, so I guess that’s halfway on me.
Secondly, the initial ultrasound was really thorough, though the tech was less personable than any I’ve dealt with. Usually they help align the pillow, help you get up (third trimester girlies know it’s so hard lol), wipe you a bit with the towel, etc. They didn’t do that here. The ultrasound seemed really unnecessary as they were doing things that had already been done multiple times by my provider. And of course they had to take a picture of her genitals to say “still a girl”, that makes me so uncomfortable. I spent around 45 minutes getting that initial ultrasound and was told they “still couldn’t get everything.” When the amniotic fluid was measured, it was initially 28, which was a great number considering it had been in the mid 30’s the last few weeks! But then she said “eh let me do it again” and came up with 34 somehow, and it looked like she purposely over-measured to get a higher number.
Third, I was moved to another room to get an NST. Took quite a while and I waited a bit in there.
Fourth, when I finally saw the doctor, she wasn’t even there in person.. it was over a video call? So I’m sitting there awkwardly in this room staring at a screen when suddenly she appears. She doesn’t look me in the eyes once. Every time I talked, it lagged on the tv and it made communication difficult. The doctor wanted to change my medicine even though I had less than 4 weeks til my due date? Then was questioning my multiple providers and prescribers on their knowledge, when clearly I’ve had multiple give me the OK to take this medicine and just monitor my levels closer. But, despite me saying I just had my thyroid levels tested a month ago, she said “I’m just going to put ‘not recently checked’”. Why would you do that? She told me all the risks of moderately increased amniotic fluid and was trying to find a reason for mine, but I have passed all the tests week after week, so there was none. She was searching so hard for something to be wrong. I asked her if induction was recommended and she said no, but then told my midwife yes. She said if I hadn’t had the baby by 40 weeks, I should get induced between 39-39.6 weeks. Now how does that even make sense? That’s a whole week before? She said “let’s do another ultrasound to check if the baby is anemic, even though I have no reason to believe she is.” I was so over this doctor at this point… still wouldn’t look at me, talking over a screen, disrespecting me by not listening to me and putting in incorrect information. I just wanted out of there.
Fifth, after that fiasco, I was pulled back into the ultrasound room to check for the anemia. Different tech, still same unpersonable-ness. She was pushing so hard on my belly that it was making me sweat and hurt so bad. I told her this but she continued. I guess the baby wasn’t in an ideal position and normally they try to test for this much earlier? So she took the results she could get and went to see if the doc thought they were good enough. Of course they weren’t. So I had to get BACK on the ultrasound table, third time this visit, three hours into being at this stupid place, 36 weeks pregnant and miserable. At this point I’m ready to cry and just want out of here so bad. I KNOW there’s nothing wrong with my baby because she has passed tests week after week, there seems to be genuinely no good reason for the amniotic fluid levels. I appreciate thorough checks but this was overkill in the worst way possible. Again, she pushed hard on my belly, got more results. Went back to the doctor to report.The doctor said the results were fine, she’s not anemic, so finally I could leave.
I will never be back. Traumatizing experience for me and my baby. Unreal