Northern Dutchess Hospital Neugarten Family Birth Center — Local services in Town of Rhinebeck

It’s been two years since our little one has been born, we still remember all the details after our situation, after two years coming up to our little ones birthday we gladly say our stories now in laughter instead of anger and sadness , our issues start with our doctor, if you get Jess say NO! it was a situation of complete no help, we understand the parameters of space with family and birthing, but when we say no hands on help we mean our doctor only saw and interacted with us through her computer, strapped a computer on my wife and left, drugs were pumped in her to have massive contractions to the point of literally only having them four to five seconds apart to then have to put her on an iv, to be able to handle the contractions, once Ivs were in they re put her on the drug that made contractions start and then we were at the craziness again, we had a nurse see everything that was going on and she kept on sneaking in helping us because technically she couldn’t help us give birth , that was the first day and a half, when the official birthing started we literally had to wait for Jess to get off the phone for half N hour!!!!! Because she had to cancel her dinner date :( what got us so upset is that she pumped my wife with drugs to make her contract very heavely, and then with all the contractions she left the hospital expecting for nothing to happen?!?!?! What we’re her directions at that moment and time of the baby to come out?!?! don’t push. After the craziness that we had from an English teacher that wanted to use us as her guinea pigs, we were sent to an older part of the hospital, no problem with that, but they failed to mention the dirt in the windows, bedding and everywhere in that dam place, was as old as the hospital itself as well, I broke out in major rashes from the filth of the room, we were told that our little one was going to stay with us in our room and that all was over with our little ones shots and what not, after the birthing she was constantly taken throughout the night and was given shots without our consent, we asked what was going on and we were told they were doing procedures that were technically already done. Teachers from schooling directly being birthing doctors, filthy corners not being tended to overrides the beauty that the location provides, they wonderfully fed me the father, but in essence lost sight of my wife. The baby is healthy, my wife and I are scarred and will never return here again unless utter emergency. We apologize for the choppiness of our story but if you have Medicaid and dream about this place double check your doctors history, demand and be loud for what you need and if any! Any one makes you feel uncomfortable don’t be afraid to speak! We still have rights !!!!A suggestion for the hospital, from the wife’s perspectiva, you need to have the food for the fathers in the same place, food vouchers are fantastic but ! When the father has to leave in that situation it kinda defeats the purpose of having them there to help when they have to leave minimum twice a day to a different location on the campus. Good luck everyone and congrats to all the families that made it out of there joyful . Oh yeah did we forget to mention no running water !!!!!!!! In our second room!!!! Lmao you docs should have your children there and don’t worry we’ll take care of...

I’ve been afraid to post this but birth trauma happens and is only amplified when those around you make it so. There are some nurses and doctors at this center that were great but overall it was a horrible experience for myself and my baby. I had a c section and had asked to be walked through the process and talked to by anyone in the room as I was terrified, first time having any surgery, only to lay down after the spinal tap and asked when they were going to start and be told oh we already did it’s almost done. After I asked that my baby and my husband stay in the room with me and they wheeled them away. When I went back to my room I wasn’t told anything, first time mom, and it wasn’t until the third shift that I asked a nurse when do I start breastfeeding and was told it’s been hours and he hasn’t been fed? I told her no one told me how to even start or what to do. My baby is underweight and it’s being attributed to this issue. Next our room was extremely hot with no air conditioning in the summer and we complained over and over again with no change. This caused one night nurse to see my baby was too hot and continually do rectal temperatures on him saying that he was most likely sick with an infection because he was too hot. Not because of there being no air conditioning to cool us down. My son was circumscised in the center and we were told by the dr that we were only doing this for asthetic reasons not religious or cleanliness and she botched it. Now after seeing the pediatric urologist he needs to go under anesthesia and have surgery to fix it. Another bill on top of this one. Lastly part of my birth plan was for him not to be bathed only for him to be taken for a few hours in the night by the nurses as I asked for help because he wouldn’t sleep, most likely because he was hungry because my milk didn’t come in from hours of not feeding him, only for him to come back bathed. I didn’t not sleep for the entire four days at the hospital pumping and feeding 24/7 to make my milk come in so I could go home away from this place. Only to be told when I asked why he is still crying and never sleeping “your baby is the most fed baby here” but not acknowledging that it was taking a while for my milk to come in and he was hungry. I didn’t was to start formula because it would kill any chance I had to breastfeed. It was pushed by both the dr and nurses. In the end I pumped every 16 minutes tor two days straight only getting in 5 minute naps at a time to feed him. When I left my milk had come in and wasn’t even colostrum but due to excessive pumping my let down was too strong and I wasn’t able to breastfeed my entire newborn journey I had to go to an ENT for the baby to figure out why he was chocking. In all this I had decided to never have another baby which wasn’t my plan in life. Please know this was my experience only but realize that this could...

Some nurses her are just terrible. My wife was in labor and had a great nurse who was so supportive and then her shift ended and the new nurse was the complete opposite. Not supportive at all. Her name was nurse Erin and she was the one who had the nose piercing. My wife requested not to be given Pitocin and we heard her joke and say to the midwife that she gave it to my wife anyways without her knowing 5 minutes after my wife asked not to receive it. That seems like malpractice to me. There are many other things that she did that made it a bad and uncomfortable experience but it’s too much to list. But to sum it all up after my wife gave birth she felt like a failure and cried for days after because of that nurse. She also did not care to follow her birth plan either that was given. The midwife (named Skylar) was okay but kept trying to crack jokes and was talking so loud about random things while my wife was in the middle of trying to push out our baby and when my wife asked if she could stop talking so she could concentrate, the nurse (Erin) made a smart remark about how my wife should concentrate on trying to push. They both also kept constantly rolling their eyes at my wife when (according to them) it was taking her “too long” to push. Terrible. Come to find out my wife was having a hard time because baby’s elbow was bent with her fist up to her face and that was why. They even threatened that they were going to cut her open if she didn’t push when they wanted her to even when my wife wasn’t having contractions. Good thing my wife spoke up and said NO. Our baby was born perfectly healthy with NONE of their interventions and with my wife pushing at her OWN pace when she had her contractions. I want to end with the fact that after our baby was birthed, we did not get a quiet moment to ourselves but instead the midwife Skylar was talking and joking so loud about how the baby was a “scorpio” and was asking the nurse what birth sign she has while laughing. So yeah we did not get a quiet intimate moment with ourselves and our newborn. Next time we will do a home birth. (Side note: if you are coming here, pray and hope to have Midwife Barri! She is great and has decades or...