Eight years ago my wife and I had our first child at AdventHealth Parker. We were thrilled to be…read morethere after taking the tour of the facility and participating in some of the new parent courses they offered. Everything went well leading up to the birth and thereafter. I am posting this review now because while my wife was mid delivery, in the middle of the night, the nurse facilitating the child birth told my wife to stop pushing because there would be too much paperwork for her, point blank, and that we would need to wait for the on-call doctor. We followed directive and waited 10-15 minutes for the on-call doctor to arrive. Mind you my child's head was halfway out the entire time because to reiterate my wife was told to stop pushing because the nurse would have too much paperwork. At the time, my wife and I had no concept of if this was the correct thing to be doing. We simply followed the nurse's directive. We were under the assumption the nurse facilating the child birth had our and the newborn babies best interests in mind. 10-15 minutes after waiting for the on-call doctor; 10-15 minutes after my newborn babies head was already halfway out the on-call doctor arrived and the birth continued as expected. Immediately, as there were a series a newborn tests, sight, sound, etc. we were told that our newborn child had triggered the alert for astigmatism. What we were told at that time, I am assuming because this was extremely common at AdventHealth Parker, is that this could be a false positive or the newborn baby could grow out of it; not to worry. We were glad to hear that positive news, and again we thought the best interests of the newborn baby were priority. So, for approximately four years our child could not see and we had no idea. We were advised by a school teacher to revisit the astigmatism concern because she noticed that our child could not see in the classroom, as expected. During breastfeeding, as we were first time parents, we had no idea what to expect from our newborn baby. We breastfed to the best of our knowledge. During this time my wife often questioned our newborn babies latching ability and the amount of milk our newborn baby was actually getting. Come to find out approximately four years later our child had a tongue-tie, also exposed by the child's first teacher, and that this was most likely the reason my wife had questioned latching and volume during breastfeeding. We are still in speech therapy after releasing the tongue-tie. Most recently, my child has frequent ear infections and frequent strep throat. Come to find out it will need to be remediated by removing the tonsils and adenoids. I looked into medical malpractice lawsuits to address what happened that night, because as logical as I am this all seems to be rooted to my newborn babies head being halfway breached for 10-15 minutes so the nurse didn't have any extra work to do. Apparently, Colorado law states child birth medical malpractice lawsuits are no longer supported after the child's eight birthday. Etc, etc, I am not a lawyer, nor do I find the additional research applicable. The reason for posting this now is in attempt to prevent this from happening to someone else, somebody else's newborn baby only because the nurse did not want the extra paperwork. My child can barely see 20 feet of themself without glasses, this will never change. There is no getting better, fortunately, to the best of our knowledge, there is no getting worse. I strongly believe my family has not been the only family to fall victim to this type of carelessness and disregard at AdventHealth Parker, and also believe we will not be the last. My child has not had and will not have the same experiences as most others. We depended on these people. I can only speculate that what happened that night is the root cause of my child's severe astigmatism, ear, nose, and throat complications as I am not a doctor, but I believe my child's head was unnecessarily compressed resulting in the complications we have faced and are still facing today.
