My water broke at 10am this past Sunday, 2/20/22 and I went to the hospital around 11:30am with no…read morecontractions and told EVERYONE I wanted an epidural-the midwife, the doctor, the nurses. They wouldn't let my husband come in when I first got there bc of COVID-told me I had to wait until I was 3-5 cm before he could come back. There was no waiting room for him to sit in bc of COVID. I was 2cm at 1pm. I dilated from 2-9cm in 3 hours time. Leading up to that point, I was checked on a total 3 times. No one helped me while in labor, told me how to breath, how to sit, offered pain relief, offered encouragement, NOTHING! They didn't check my cervix again until 4pm and I was 9cm! Said "Call your husband, sorry there's no time for an epidural". He was only 10 minutes from the hospital but didn't make it in time for the birth. I didn't get my epidural, my husband wasn't there for my labor, and he missed the birth because of their incompetence nursing care and lack of knowledge and compassion. It was a traumatic, heartbreaking experience. I feel like a special event and moment has been stolen from our family and I'm grieving over it. No one massaged my uterus after birth or checked my pad count to monitor bleeding. They didn't do any tests on my baby. I also was unable to latch her from birth to breastfeed and when I asked for help, no one would help me latch her. The excuse I got from the nurse was, "some babies don't even eat the first 24 hours, we'll worry about it after that." I threw a fit and made them give me formula for her. I was so upset with my care that I requested to speak to the chief of the department-Dr. Onder. She offered no apology for the poor care, stating "you just went too fast, there was nothing we could do" and also stating, "well, my husband missed the birth of our first child, too." I myself work in healthcare being a registered nurse and am absolutely appalled at the absolute awful care provided at this hospital and complete and total disregard for safe patient care not to mention lack of compassion. If you are planning on having your baby here or even considering it, I implore you to find somewhere else! I don't want anyone else to have to suffer what I went through.