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Any East-siders? :)
We live on the east side of Cleveland and are due with our first child on March 3rd 
Wondering if any of you living on the east-side are due around the same time? It might be fun to meet up and follow eachother's progress! Let me know!
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Re: Any East-siders? :)
Hello!
I am also an east-sider and am due on/around March 22nd. We just found out this weekend that we are pregnant. Congrats to us both!!
I'm in Shaker Heights - my DD is 3 months.
Congrats to you both!
Yay!! It's good to know we are close--both in location and due date
Let's keep in touch! Maybe we can plan to meet up at some point?
Tara
butting in....just wanted to say Dr Rao delivered both my babies at Hillcrest and he is awesome! I could not have asked for a better experience!
i'm on the east side too, in University Hts. My kids are older (2.5 yrs and 2 months), but I'd be up for meeting at some point!
Hey ladies.. I'm an east-sider too and due March 13th! It's good to know others are in the area and due around the same time!
Cat
I did deliver at Hillcrest. I saw the midwives leading up to that becauase Dr. Ross, my OB, stopped doing OB to focus on GYN.
My experience leading up to the birth was great. Then I was in labor for 10 hours before someone figured out the baby was breech and at that point there wasn't any option but to do a c-section. The baby's position ended up causing her hip to be dislocated at birth, which, again, I think could have been avoided if someone had realized she was breech. Every week the midwife would comment that she could feel the head, when in reality she could feel the butt - and that shouldn't be difficult to see a difference.
That being said, I'm considering staying with Hillcrest for any future babies and using a doctor instead of the midwives.
My OB is Barry Peskin and I really like him! However, I did not have the best experience at Hillcrest. Several of the nurses were absolutely wonderful but I also had a few that were terrible. I had a c-section (unplanned) and really after the first night, the nurses were horrible. They rarely came to check on me, the never came to get me up out of bed or tell me to get up and walk around on my own...I finally had to ask an aide to show me how to go to the bathroom! Then at one point, I was feeling lightheaded while lying in bed...I called the nurse and she told me to raise the incline on my bed and that was it. She never came in to check me or my blood pressure or to see if I was even alive! And I was induced b/c of high blood pressure!
They never asked me if I had any questions about my baby, didn't show me how to swaddle, etc. Maybe I just had a bad shift of nurses...I know other people that really like Hillcrest. I'm not sure yet what we'll do if we have another one....
BTW, the picture people will try and get you to have your baby's picture taken before you leave the hospital and you literally have to decide which images and which package you want right then & there. We felt so much pressure that we ended up just buying a package that was way too much $$ and the pictures were not good either. I ended up returning them and getting most of my $$ back. Don't fall for the same trick!!