I do NOT recommend Dr. Richter. I had her as my OBGYN since the beginning stages of my pregnancy. This was my first pregnancy and I was so happy to have found a good doctor based on her previous reviews. However, I wish I wouldn't have chosen her due to several reasons. First being that she is never on time. Every time I would show up for an appointment, she would be 20-50 minutes late due to double booking, running behind schedule, etc. This isn't a great experience especially since you are pregnant and don't want to be wasting time waiting for so long to go through a 5-minute check up. The other (main) reason for this review is the horrible experience I had on the day of delivery. Throughout my pregnancy, I was told that my child would be about 7 lbs - however, this was not the case. My son weighted over 10 lbs at birth. Dr. Richter's justification was that the ultrasound is usually not 100 percent accurate. Even so, she should have asked me to do an ultra sound at least 2-3 weeks prior to my delivery to clarify how much he approximately weighted at that point. This would have saved me so much pain and suffering during delivery. Fast forward to my delivery date. I started getting contractions at 5 am. I called the office when they opened at 8 am. I spoke to Dr. Richter's nurse Robin and she told me to go to the hospital whenever my contractions reached 5-minute intervals. Well, that happened around noon. When I arrived at the hospital, I got checked into a room by around 1:30 pm. The nurses that were taking care of me asked me when the contractions had started. When I told them that they began at 5 am, the nurses were surprised that I had checking in so late. I informed them that nurse Robin had told me to wait. When I said that, one of the nurses told me that I should have come in when the contractions started. Hearing that made me really upset because I had to endure so much pain for 5 hours for no reason. While being in labor, Dr. Richter checked on me twice. At around 4, my contractions were getting close to each other, so I was told to start pushing. Dr. Richter stayed only for a little while longer (20 minutes in all) because she had to go home and be with her kids since it was her birthday and her nanny had to leave. She abandoned me in the middle of pushing, so that she could go home to pick up her kids and celebrate her birthday. What kind of doctor abandons her patient in the middle of delivery? When she left, the hospitalist, who was very slow, took her place. Even this doctor would check on me every 40-50 minutes, even though she know how much pain I was in. I ended up PUSHING till 10 pm, until the on-call doctor came to the hospital and performed a C-section on me. I have never heard any one push for 6 hours, all because Dr. Richter's mind was too occupied with the thought of going home for her birthday. If she would have stayed 30 more minutes, she would have witnessed the excruciating pain I was in and that my baby was way too big to be born vaginally. My poor son's face was flat because he had undergone so much pressure from being stuck and not getting out. It's truly devastating that I had to endure so much pain due to Dr. Richter's neglect and the lack of care of the hospitalist. I pray that this never happens to another woman. read more