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| - It took me a long time to write this review, but in meeting with other doctors in other practices, who are really appalled by the L&D experience I had with Dr. Urig, I feel like I needed to share. First, I want to say I feel I had very good prenatal care with this practice. If anything it was overly cautious. Unfortunately my labor and delivery experience was dreadful. I delivered two years ago at Good Sam during a holiday weekend when they were clearly understaffed. Dr. Urig was the doctor on call for the practice--you don't have a choice who you deliver with in this practice. I had an epidural at 9 cm. I hit 10 soon after and was ready to push. While Dr. Urig's resident had checked on me several times, I never saw Dr. Urig for the five hours I was in labor in the hospital. Both the resident and my nurse told me Dr. Urig was in a c-section (or possibly two back to back) and not to push after I was at 10 cm. My doula was concerned I would get tired and the baby was having a hard time--we both repeatedly asked for Dr. Urig or if I could push and were told no. Over two hours after I hit 10 cm, Dr. Urig showed up. He broke my water, made a comment about never having seen so much meconium, and said we needed to get the baby out fast. He let me push for about 20 minutes before telling me he needed to use forceps. He also told me because he needed to use forceps, I HAD to have an episiotomy. I initially said no, but being in a horrific amount of pain (my epidural never kicked in all the way) and terrified for the safety of my baby, I did eventually consent. When my baby was delivered she had trouble breathing and required the NICU team--She is fine now. If I said the healing process was horrible or things down there will never be the same again, it would be an understatement. While I was very disappointed at the time and have consistently wondered if we could have had a much better outcome if I could have pushed for those two hours, it has only been since I have been meeting with other doctors to discuss my second pregnancy that words like "outdated" and "unnecessary" have been used to describe my first L&D experience. Apparently it is not medically necessary to cut an episiotomy to use forceps--most doctors will tell you it is much better to tear. My father, a retired physician, actually insisted I use another provider for my second pregnancy as he was so disturbed by Dr. Urig's absence during my entire labor and the insistence from the resident and nurse that I not push. I know there are very good providers in this practice and I hope my experience wasn't typical, but given you don't have control over who you actually deliver with in this practice, I could never recommend Maricopa OBGYN.
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