Babcock, Cristin J. MD

"Unfortunately, she was the obgyn on-call when I was at Riverbend at 32 weeks with twins and having contractions. The obgyn and nurses before her were very gentle with me while checking my cervix as they didn’t want to break my water or send me into full blown labor. They would tell me when they were going to touch me and when they were going to insert their fingers. They also would let me lower my knees to the bed myself since it was very painful because my thigh muscles hadn’t been stretched in that way in months. She however was extremely rough and it was very traumatizing for a first-time mom going into pre-term labor with twins and being a sexual assault survivor. It’s definitley not something that I needed to go through at such a stressful time. She pushed my knees down to the bed very roughly with no warning as I was screaming and crying in pain because I could barley walk, let alone do a full butterfly pose on my back. She shoved her hand inside of me with no warning or lube. She said how far I was to the nurse and left without saying a word. Meanwhile, I was crying in pain and she actually made my contractions worse from then on. I spoke to the nurse and she said this is normal with her and it isn’t the first time they’ve had complaints. I confronted her about it when she came in to check me again and I refused for her to touch me. She was very rude and said “I’m going to check you, you have no choice” and I said “No, if I need checked I’ll have a nurse do it. You made my contractions worse and hurt me you were so rough” as I was still crying in pain. She said “Well we will do what we have to do” and she walked away rolling her eyes in a huff as if she’d force me to let her check me the next time. The nurses backed me up confronting her and said it was my right to tell her no and that I did nothing wrong. Seems like this is a common occurance with her, the nurses standing up to her on behalf of their patient. Thank God for those nurses who were on my side and advocated for me. Luckily I hung in there for the next on-call obgyn before my babies were born. I believe that if it weren’t for her, I could’ve kept my babies in longer. She’s absolutely horrible! She never apologized and acted like she did nothing wrong and was even willing to imply that she’d do it again even after I told her no. Even my normal obgyn said that’s how she is and she’s heard stories similar to mine before too. I do not recommend her whatsoever! She shoudn’t be a doctor if she’s going to treat her patients like that."

"The check in staff are patient and friendly. Cristin Babcock was energetic, informative and made me feel comfortable. I would refer anyone to her!"