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| - I guess I'm one in a million because I didn't care for Dr. Sawyer during our last appointments together. I've decided not to use him to deliver our baby after meeting with him 3 times. It's interesting none of these reviews mention how conservative and stiff he is, but I found that out on my own. Yes, his nurses and staff are very nice though.
My Husband and I met with Dr. Sawyer for the first time late 2014 for a pregnancy consult when we were thinking about starting a family. We met with him in his office and he spent a good deal of time talking with us about getting off of birth control and how to give my body time to adjust and all that good stuff. After the meeting I thought he was very personable, nice, and soft spoken.
Flash forward to January 2016 and I'm pregnant after trying for only 1 month! :) I was very excited, so I called Dr. Sawyers office since we had felt comfortable with him before. I made my first appt. with him at 8 weeks pregnant. My husband and I showed up to the appt., met with Dr. Sawyer and we got to see our little jelly bean on the monitor :) He told us we couldn't hear the heartbeat yet so he wasn't even going to try....Ok. That's fine, but that's not entirely true. You can hear the baby's heartbeat as early as 7 weeks for some women, but I didn't push it because it was early and I thought, probably next time we'll hear it for sure. At the end of that appt. I asked about genetic tests such as the NIPT or the NT scan, as I will be 35 by the time I deliver...He kindof skirted the issue, but said yes those were tests out there available. He said to think about it and we would discuss it at our next appt. at 12 weeks. He asked if my Husband and I were Catholic...Excuse me? Strike 1....What does that have to do with anything? He was basically implying that if we were Catholic the tests shouldn't matter to us..That is completely his opinion and not a medical one and I thought it was downright unprofessional to push his religious views on us. It's really none of his business what our religion is or what we will do with the information gained from the tests. He's lucky I didn't give him a piece of my mind right then and there.
Today I'm in my 12th week of pregnancy (nearing the end of my first trimester), I went in for for my follow up appt. earlier this week where I thought I would hear the baby's heartbeat and discuss/perform testing options...Dr. Sawyer was probably a solid 30 minutes behind schedule and we waited longer than the time we actually spent with him. When he comes into the room he says, want to see your baby? No, hello...No, how have you been feeling since I last saw you? Nothing...Just, want to see your baby....I said yes, of course, and he got right to business. He pulled baby up on the monitor and it was an amazing sight to see once again. I asked if we could hear the heartbeat this time and he said no, it's too early...What?? STILL too early?? His reasoning was, it could take me 20 minutes to find the heartbeat and sometimes it scares moms and they think their baby is dead....What an insensitive thing to say I thought...So basically you're saying I can't hear the heartbeat because you don't want to take the time to find it??? Strike 2....Don't slow play me when I know it's not medically too early to hear the baby's heartbeat...You just don't want to do it for whatever reason. Once he was done that was pretty much the end of the appt. Instead of talking about the testing options I thought were going to discuss, he starts talking to my husband about....FOOTBALL....UM EXCUSE ME??? We're here to discuss our baby! Our baby's health! And you bring up my Husband's job and football?!? STRIKE 3....That was unacceptable. He then said he would see us back in 1 month and left the room. I was left to stare at my Husband in awe of what had just happened.
I said to him, weren't we suppose to talk about testing options today? I'm almost at the end of my first trimester and I'll miss the window for certain tests if they're not done in time. I was completely disappointed and felt let down and left in the dark with this Dr. Allen Sawyer. I spoke to his nurse afterwards and asked why I hadn't been tested for anything so far...All she could say was that Dr. Sawyer doesn't "believe" in a lot of testing and if I wanted some he would perform them during the 2nd trimester...
UNACCEPTABLE.
The next day, I found a doctor from the 21st century who I feel is more my speed. He's requesting my records and I feel happy and confident with the switch. I also got the tests I wanted done the same day I spoke with the new doctor and I didn't have to beg and plead to do it!
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