Health Foundations Birth Center

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Cori Pierson

I can not rave enough to others about our experience with Health foundations!! LOVE THEM! The quality of care we received only seemed to increase for us as we went through pre-natal care, birth/delivery, & postpartum visits. Every visit, both my husband and I, felt important, listened to, and spent good time to answer our questions well & thoroughly without feeling like a number! The midwifes and staff are all very caring, personable, kind & gentle. We loved the "homey" atmosphere that made us feel comfortable, but was also very professional. As first time pregnancy & parents, we felt very well equipped with the knowledge and education we received from our classes there, and with many resources available to us. You are well informed a head of time of the complications that could arise, and the processes and procedures that will be taken should those things happen, so you arent caught off guard by these things in the middle of birth. You put together your own personalized birth plan. We greatly appreciate & were drawn to Health Foundations for their philosophy to birth... that womens bodies are designed to give birth & they approach is as little intervention to that natural process as possible. Because of this they have a very low "emergency transfer rate". My birth team was amazing(Amy, Monica, & Jen)!, and my birth story was a wonderful peaceful experience for me. Throughout my delivery I felt so supported, encouraged and empowered every step of the way to successfully birth my baby naturally. Everyone on my team had a very calming presence, and there was never a point where they communicated to me in a fear filled or anxious way. And there were definitely points of concern, which in a normal hospital setting intervention would have taken place, but because of their experience and knowledge that didnt need to happen! They are are so good at what they do, and do it in such a peaceful but confident way. You can tell they love what they do =) I was surrounded by my team(midwives, doulas, & husband) until the very end, and i felt they had a wonderful balance of taking care of me(physically & mentally), but allowing me to birth how my body needed, coupled with gentle & instructed coaching when needed. Out little one also sees Lindsey Deeb, the pediatrician there. She is also so wonderful, personable & respectful of our decisions. All in all my experience there was everything I hoped!(Sign of relieve!) We will definitely we be going back for future pregnancies and other care there!

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Amanda Enderle

I gave birth to my son in July and while we had a mostly great prenatal experience and my son was born safely, the labor and postpartum were very disappointing. During labor the hot water broke in the tub just a few hours in, so I wasnt able to labor or birth in the tub which was extremely disappointing. Also, the nitrous oxide machine broke after a few hours and was $100 an hour, which wasnt discussed until the heat of labor. So the two comfort measures I was counting on werent available and I had a long and excruciatingly painful labor. After all of the malfunctions with the HFBC equipment I would have expected an apology and an acknowledgement for their mistakes and my traumatic labor, but instead I had to reach out to 3+ employees to be able to get the nitrous oxide removed from my bill and a discount on the bill due to the tub not working. I also felt that at my 2 and 6 week check up they brushed aside the trauma I felt during labor and the extreme pain I have been feeling since the birth. I also had quite a few problems with the midwife that was on-call during my labor. She was very aggressive during cervical checks, is hard of hearing and thus missed the tens of times I asked to be transferred to the hospital, and never offered me the other tub or any other comfort measures (tens unit, sterile water injection, etc). Although I am grateful to have delivered my son vaginally as that was my birth plan, the pain of an asynclitic labor was more than I wanted to handle. If I decide to have another baby, I would definitely go to another birthing center.

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Sarah Klette

My entire experience at Health Foundations was amazing! I was so scared to become pregnant- so many unknowns. I had no idea what to expect through my journey and while in labor. The midwives and birth classes gave me and my husband all the information we needed to feel in charge of our birth plan. They encouraged me to learn all of my options, gave me detailed information on the spot with pros and cons to every decision (unbiased), encouraged healthy eating, and we truly could not have asked for a better place for our child to be born. My labor was absolutely wonderful! It was even better than my ideal birth plan and the trust I had in the team allowed me to feel safe and supported. Amy and the team guided me through my labor, through my first hours of motherhood, and through my 6 weeks postpartum. I am eternally grateful for there love and support through my journey and would only wish this upon any other family. We also have used Lindsay Deeb as our pediatrician who does well baby visits at Health Foundations and at her clinic Dakota Pediatrics and we highly recommend her!

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Corey Soltis

Perhaps the medical staff at HF is wonderful, but Ill never know. I called during business hours on multiple days to set up an appointment and calls went straight to voicemail. I left messages which were never returned. Then when I finally got an appointment, I had some minor bleeding one more morning and called in for guidance (being my first pregnancy). Not only did they not start answering calls until 30 minutes after they were supposedly open, but when they did, the person I spoke to was incredibly rude toward someone that was potentially losing their baby. They basically told me that there was nothing they could do and Id either miscarry or I wouldnt. I asked for more guidance, but they sort of put me off. I hung up and called the OB Id transferred from and they gave me much more information as to what to expect, symptoms to watch out for and what to do about them and were incredibly empathetic and caring. Yes, I know that these employees see tons of births every year, but individual mothers do not and we dont know what to expect. A little compassion would go a long way.

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Naomi Maylone

Zero stars! Health Foundations is a beautiful peaceful illusion full of seemingly friendly people who pretend to go for Western medicine alternatives. I transferred to them from a hospital setting at 32 weeks. After every of my 6 weekly appointments I left feeling worse than before I went, as I was consistently lied to by Amy, bullied into a test I knew and could prove was unnecessary, and subjected to ammeture practices leaving me almost labeled with a deisese I definitely did not have--due to improper blood pressure monitoring. The worst was being dropped like a piece of trash when I was in prelabor, earlier than they had said they would give me, for unexplained reasons. Maybe the money is the most important thing? I was transferred to a hospital I had not previously selected, without even being attended there like they had said they would do. In the end I was treated professionally and respectfully at the hospital setting I had tried to avoid, and it would have been better if I had never set foot in in health foundations!

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