Mag Arantes
Google
I had the worst team of doctors for my baby's delivery. I arrived at Santa Clara Valley Hospital on August 19th around 9:30 pm. From the beginning, they were talking about a C-section because my first child was born via C-section, but I had a completely healthy pregnancy, and everything indicated I could have a VBAC. While I was focused and in pain trying to deliver my son, the obstetrician in charge of my delivery asked stupid questions that were irrelevant at the time, like what contraception I would use after giving birth. She performed several unnecessary cervical exams on me, constantly, almost deliberately, trying to make me give up on natural childbirth, making me feel more pain and asking stupid questions. And every time she did the cervical exam, she would say, "Yeah... I feel something...", always with the same bored expression, as if she wanted to be somewhere else doing something else. After so many cervical exams, there was a point when I screamed and asked her to stop, and even then she continued. I was treated like a piece of meat, not a human being. My baby was being born; he just needed time, time that American doctors don't like to waste because they want to be quick at all costs. They practically forced me into another C-section, justifying it as my baby's head, but he was just being born. It was the worst experience of my life, being in natural labor and seeing all those people around me with bored faces like” Wow…she’s pushing for 3 hours and we’re still here….” I wouldn't recommend this hospital to my worst enemy.