“The room I was in was big, and the doctor went to his desk to get Kleenex for my tears. The normal sized doctor, with normal sized arms, handed me the box of Kleenex and decided to lean on my legs that were hanging over the side of the examination table that I was on to hand the box to me.I felt his "hard on" press into my legs. I have not suffered abuse in my past so I wasn't upset. I just thought OH MY G*D, what a moron.”
“She just scooped my baby up out of the isolette and walked fast down the hall way. I had to hobble after her. I said, in the hallway "can I come with you?" only a question in formality, I WAS GOING with my baby. She didn't give me an option for the treatment, didn't get INFORMED consent from me, didn't ask if I wanted to come with her, didn't ask if she could hold the baby, I could have held the baby myself and walked down the hallway.“
“Planned induction. Difficult birth, nurse went on break, needed forceps, break-nurse pushing down on top of my baby bump under my rib cage making my empty stomach gag a few times.”
“When we walked into our bay at the NICU, we saw someone else’s name on the feeding bottle. We asked the nurse and she lied right away. After realizing that we caught her, she admitted the error and called the doctor. It took 3 days and us to force the doctor to start the routine check and emergency procedures.“
“I thought delivering at Mount Sinai was the best decision for my family. There was no part of my experience that made me feel heard, seen, or cared for beyond the most very basic. Getting a healthy baby is of course the absolute most important but it felt like there was zero consideration to the care and consequence (mental and physical health) of the one giving birth...and the one that would be caring for this new baby.”
“I suffered, my newborn suffered, and because I couldn't breastfeed properly after this experience I suffered mentally for months over the guilt of what happened to my baby and my inability to breastfeed. If we were just given the chance to offer him a formula feed at the hospital to see if that satisfied him it would have made a world of a difference and it would have saved me from all the anxiety and sleep that I lost trying to feed my baby constantly. But because this hospital promoted breastfeeding they are against supplementing, breastfed is not what's always best, a baby should be fed and they should have helped ensure that even if that means offering formula.”