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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel conflicted in posting this, because I loved the WHC midwives, especially May Wheelwright, and felt so supported by them (except one, who during labor told me I "knew too much" when I asked questions about an induction drug she recommended and should just do what she recommended even though it made me uncomfortable. She also tried to stretch me from 1 cm to 2 cm manually and told me to "get used to the feeling" because that's what labor would be like. I loathed her.).

However, they missed some things throughout my pregnancy and one big, scary thing postpartum that they should have caught. The WHC MFMs were also not great and didn't tell me about a pretty significant bad test result during my first trimester until I was well into my third trimester. Ultimately, I'm sad to say I was disappointed in the care and couldn't recommend them, even though I really did love their bedside manner. [/quote]

Name names! Who was the bad midwife? [/quote]

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How can this be possible on the test result? All the test results go to your patient portal, and wouldn’t you have known what tests were done and checked the results? Not saying they didn’t miss a phone call but can you be more specific about the test and how you didn’t know the results?[/quote]

Great question. I was extremely diligent about reviewing my test results in the patient portal, but some of the MFM testing didn’t go into the portal for whatever reason. The test in question was the first trimester screening—I had extremely low Papp-A and no one mentioned it until my third trimester when my baby was IUGR. One of the fellows mentioned it in an offhand way like “well, we would have expected this because your Papp-A result was so bad.” It’s also associated with preeclampsia, which I ended up having, and I might have asked about being on low dose aspirin if I had known I was at a higher risk.

The genetic counselor at the WHC MFM practice had called me to review the first trimester screening results as they related to the likelihood of a problem like Down’s, etc. When I called her after finding out about the low Papp-A to ask why it hasn’t been discussed when she gave me the results, she was shocked and said that one of the MFM was supposed to have contacted me about it.

The midwives also missed that Labcorp hadn’t actually done a test they ordered in the first trimester, so they re-did it right before I delivered. Of course, the test result didn’t come back for weeks—after I had already delivered. I suppose I could have noticed that the test hadn’t been done myself in the patient portal, but I sort of expected my medical providers to be on top of it...for what it’s worth, they did apologize and say it shouldn’t have happened. Just caused some unnecessary anxiety at the very end of my pregnancy and made me feel worried about trusting them. [/quote]

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