Do not deliver your baby here! I delivered my daughter here and it was truly terrifying. I was induced, and my nurse was awesome! Then when it came time to deliver her about 15 people ran into the room. I am assuming some were students or doing some kind of training. I was not asked ahead of time if this was okay, I was not told this was going to happen. They all stood back and watched me deliver my baby. They ended up having to use forceps because her heart rate was dropping, I was terrified. No one tried to calm me down or reassure me. I wanted a very private delivery, I did not invite any friends or family to the hospital because I did not feel comfortable with several people seeing me exposed. If it were medically necessary to have that many people in the room I would have been more than understanding. This was my first child, so I don’t know how deliveries usually go, but this definitely did not feel normal. It was beyond terrifying to have a room of strangers all standing around me while I was delivering. It gives me nightmares, and is terrifying to think about. I dilated to 10 cm very fast, so maybe they needed this many people in the room, or called too many people in at once, but this just did not feel right. I have heard so many delivery stories and watched so many videos, and have never once seen or heard of this many people being in a room while someone was delivering before.
Overall, every nurse and doctor I talked to was very friendly and informative. This was just a major event in my life I was very excited for, and I cannot look back on it without cringing. I just feel that my feelings were not considered when they decided to have that many people in the room.
My boyfriend also mentioned to the staff several times that his other daughter was born with a heart murmur that indicated another underlying problem when she was born. Then, right before being discharged my nurse asked me about my daughter’s heart murmur, which she had said was detected in the previous evening, and no one had ever mentioned to us. At her following pediatrician appointment after leaving the hospital the doctor told me the heart murmur was gone, but it was not mentioned on her chart from the hospital.
