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| - I was referred to DPA and Dr. Adashek by my reproductive endocrinologist who thought, for a number of reasons, that I needed to be followed by a perinatologist throughout my pregnancy.
One of the best things about DPA is that they are extremely organized. They always know exactly what you should be paying, when you should be scheduled for which tests, and what you'll need throughout your pregnancy. This took the pressure off of me to know or remember these things and they guided me with ease throughout my pregnancy.
It was easy to have questions answered, and the nurses would get back to me in a very timely manner. I was fit in for appointments when I had concerns, and all blood was drawn and testing completed in the office. Hurray for not having to go to Quest lab for a glucose tolerance test.
Dr. Adashek is a very nice and easy going guy, but often made me feel "wrong" for wanting certain things during my pregnancy/labor & delivery. It really wasn't up until the end that I started feeling unsupported by him. I brought in a birth plan and said I wanted to do a natural labor. He told me that he typically thinks people with birth plans are coming from an "adversarial" place. I really don't think that's the case - I think people with birth plans have preferences for how they'd like things to go, and it's just easier if everyone's on the same page. Especially for first timers, when things seems hectic and you just want to make the "unknown" a little easier to approach. The plan wasn't directive, argumentative, or "adversarial" in any way. He seemed to be convinced that I'd want medicine, despite wanting a natural labor. I wish he could have just nodded and smiled, instead of insisting, time after time, that I'd eventually get medicine, and reciting percentages of people who do. And I labored naturally for 38 hours.
When my plan went "awry" I felt shamed and belittled by Dr. Adashek. "If you would have just done what I suggested, you would have been holding your baby 24 hours ago." And in the cold, sterile OR, I felt completely alone despite that fact that he and many healthcare professionals worked on the other side of drape, not communicating with me as though only my uterus lay there, and not an entire scared, cold, and saddened patient above.
Of course, the outcome was a healthy, happy baby, and a healthy mother. And Dr. Adashek did a wonderful job on my incision. I'm glad to have had him on my team. I just wish he would have been a little more supportive in my greatest time of need.
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