Reba Lyon

Review of Advocate Good Samaritan

**DO NOT GIVE BIRTH HERE**

**DO NOT GIVE BIRTH HERE**

The hospital policies are not designed for your health or your child's health. They are designed for the bottom line-at your expense. The only reason I even give this 2 stars only because there were some very nice nurses who bent some of the hospital rules for me and my daughter.

I had the world's healthiest pregnancy up until I set foot in this hospital.

* As soon as I arrived, an L&D nurse forced me to get into a wheelchair when I was more comfortable walking.
* After they checked how dilated I was, they told me I could not leave the bed because I was a "fall hazard." I was only at 6 cm.
* After I said I did not want an epidural, a nurse walked in with "papers I needed to sign for my epidural."
* I was asked probably every hour if I had changed my mind about the epidural.
* I was put on pitocin without permission. A nurse came in to change my strep b antibiotic and afterwards said "btw I just put you on pitocin."
* They continuously increased the pitocin dose without telling me to the point where I was blacking out. I think it was to get me on an epidural, which I finally gave in to.
*The epidural was WAY too strong and I could not feel the lower half of my body for days (which makes it hard to care for a newborn)
* The anesthesiologist engaged in a debt parking scheme (see: Midwest Anesthesiologists Google reviews)
* After my daughter was born, she had mild jaundice. The hospital spent 24 telling me I needed to give her formula to treat this. I told them no. That makes jaundice worse! That should not be the go-to treatment! They kept trying to pressure me to use formula. Only after a full day did they suggest the bilirubin light (which actually is an effective treatment for jaundice). Her jaundice wasn't even that bad and I felt that the whole thing was overblown. At that point, however, I was discharged and they wanted to keep the baby an extra night and feed her-you guessed it- formula while under the light. Please respect mom's feeding choices! (Luckily we figured out a way that I could stay an extra night so this wasn't necessary, but what we did actually went against hospital policies.) They sent me home with a bag of formula I did not want and did not use. There isn't even a good place to donate it, so I had to throw it out.

If this is how they treat a healthy mom and baby, I want no parts of it for my future children (and we're Catholic, so you're probably going to be losing a lot of business lol)