Dr. Amy Carrillo

"I had a really rough experience with St. Joseph. They wouldn’t call my midwife, who I found out later was in the hospital at the time we checked in, because “that’s not how they do it, you have to take the doctor on call”. My midwife called me in our room after our baby was born and said she was sorry she missed the birth and didn’t know why nobody called her. The first doctor on call, Dr. Slone, threatened to send me home at 4 cm dilated if I wouldn’t let them break my water and get things moving. They broke my water and the baby’s heart rate fell so they had to pump water back up in me. The morning doctor on call who delivered my baby, Dr. Carrillo, stitched me up with out any anesthesia while I kicked and screamed and begged her to stop and numb me. This was the most painful part of my 28 hour labor and two hours of pushing. The situation with both doctors and all the nurses refusing multiple times to call my midwife and even telling me she was out of town was ridiculous enough, but their treatment of me was dehumanizing and really hard to believe. I did love my nurse Kelly who was with me through all of the pushing and the complimentary steak dinner."