I am honestly beyond unhappy with my experience. And I will never recommend. My midwife ‘retired’ after the delivery of my daughter. Which was a wonderful delivery per my on call midwife! Who handles the umbilical cord being wrapped around her neck, marvelously!
Getting established and finding the clinic initially was a mess. Went from Tacoma, to another place where there was no clinic to finally find the correct address after multiple phone calls and stops.
Care was good while I was going in for my check ups. But when it came to post pardum, (which this was my second child. And I was familiar with what my body was going to need post pardum the second time) I tried to reach out to my midwife and clinic, 3 months post pardum, to get on birth control. To help balance my hormones while adjusting. My husband couldn’t get ahold of anyone at the clinic- we got referred to the hospital with a male physician. Which was never billed my insurance in the first place, so I have been having to go above and beyond just to get them to bill my insurance in the first place. (Which also makes absolutely no sense since that’s all on file.)I asked that physician for birth control. Not one person followed through and rather said ‘ok’ and ‘prescribed’ massages as I was going through a lot of post pardum, and family stress at the time.
Not one follow through with what my husband and I were contacting the clinic for in the first place. Everything else went well, But truely something as minor and critical for me as getting birth control. Is a minor but major thing that want able to be accomplished through them & makes no sense.
Eventually I got my prescription through planned parenthood. (Thank you planned parenthood for always being reliable) an additional 3 months later and thankfully it balanced me out finally.
Considering we have some of the best insurance out there. Someone there should have actually gotten me my birth control. Especially when I had discussed it multiple times during pregnancy. Even To the point of having nearly an entire appointment talking about my options.
To be completely forgotten about, sent to a man. Who was confused.
The stress alone of getting ahold of someone for hormonal support was a complete joke. In return, I lost way too much hair. Which happens post pardum, but I knew I needed my hormonal support when I needed it. ( that’s just how my body is and I even discussed this with my midwife while being seen by her.) Not happy at all.
Oh and let’s not forget about the sever anemia I had the entire pregnancy due to my inability to hold food down, Never once were my vitamin levels checked, per the labs I can still view.
For how my b12 and iron were never checked up on and over a year after my daughters birth I’m figuring out why I had massive vertigo and also probably lost all my hair, Is beyond me.
My vitamin levels should have been being watched. That’s a standard and simple thing and I assumed that with whatever testing I had, they just have been. I figured if my care provider thought I was ok, then I should have been. Yikes. Im baffled.
While Donna is very nice and friendly, I felt her bedside manner was lacking— every appointment my husband and I were asked what we did for work and the same questions followed. I understand she sees a lot of patients, but she didn’t keep notes and pretend to remember us. At my 22 week appointment, she asked me how many weeks along I was as she measured my belly; some people wouldn’t mind this, but I’d expect my doctor to know how many weeks I was with my chart pulled up. That can be forgiven, but what I can’t forgive was reading about a complication with our baby on mychart which said I had been called by Donna about. I had not been called, and I had to call the office multiple times to find out what was going on. This was a couple weeks after the complication had been found. Bringing it up to Donna she was not as apologetic as I’d expect from that big of a blunder. Also, she didn’t take my urine at every appointment, and I self diagnosed myself as having a UTI and asked for them to take my urine at one of my appointments; but since pregnancy can make similar symptoms I think I suffered with a UTI for an unnecessary amount of time. Also after I got results I had the UTI (Thursday morning) I didn’t get medication prescribed till Tuesday of the next week. As a first time mom, there is extra stress and anxiety in pregnancy, save yourself the trouble and go to a midwife in this system with good ratings!!
