Bain Birthing Center

After reading several positive reviews on Unilocal and attending the ‘Meet the midwives’ session my husband and I decided to go for a midwife at Mt. Auburn for my prenatal care. I was in my second trimester when I switched for another Cambridge hospital to Mt. Auburn midwives. My first midwife was Leila Foreman. I found her pleasant in the first meeting but she seemed preoccupied. That happened during my second meeting as well. I gave her a call one morning to discuss some symptoms. She felt i was getting paranoid for no reason and snapped at me. She said she had to rush in for a delivery and i should stop worrying. That almost left me in tears. After five minutes Leila called back and apologized. I appreciated that but i was clear that i didn’t want her as my midwife. I then switched to the Arlington centre and consulted Megan MaCinness. She was professional and cordial.
The worst part about my experience was during delivery (January 25^th 2014). When i was in the labor room i felt the nurses were indifferent and rude. I was ok with that and didn’t really bother till the nurses became extremely rude and unprofessional when my heart rate had shot up abnormally and I had started sweating. One of the nurses, Elizabeth, was very rude and demanded that I tell what was happening to me. While its understandable that the staff would want to know about the patient’s condition but Elizabeth was very rude and bossy. She refused to give me any ice cubes etc when I requested her. I was shocked at her attitude. The midwife at that time was Adrienne and she was quiet. I begged the staff to get me water or ice cubes as I was feeling parched and suffocated. Elizabeth continued to be nasty and was very dominating.
When I was ready to push I requested Adrienne, the midwife, if Elizabeth could be replaced with another nurse. Adrienne went out of the labor room and discussed the matter with the nurses. She came back and we were ready to push when a nurse named Maria walked in and shouted at me. She said if I keep asking for a change of nurses I won’t have anyone to help me push. My husband, my mom and I were shocked. Adrienne was there but didn’t say anything. My husband then spoke with her and got another nurse. I felt I was at the mercy of these bullying nurses. Even the pushing experience was not good. The overall experience wasn’t good at all.
The head of Mt. Auburn midwifery practice, Margi Coggins, knows about my case as I had given her a detailed account of my experience. I am writing this review with the hope that no mamma goes through a similar experience. I hope that Margi and her team have taken the necessary steps to avoid such instances in future. Unfortunately I don’t recommend Mt. Auburn to any of my pregnant friends or other women I know in Cambridge. I feel MAMA is overhyped.
If you have chosen to go with MAMA I sincerely hope you have a good experience. I really hope no one remotely goes through what I did at Mt.Auburn. Goodluck !

My post has nothing to do with the hospital itself but with the calendar on the website, in particular, the Meet the Midwives birthing tour that they hold every 6 weeks. I wanted to make it known that when you sign up online there is no mention about the meeting of the midwives event taking place BEFORE the facility tour with no given start time. If there is a start time listed somewhere then I (and 10 other people) overlooked it.
I signed up for a 7:30 Meet the Midwives tour about 5 weeks ago. I showed up tonight at 7:20 and there was already a full Q&A session going on between 50 people and the midwives in the auditorium. I thought I was walking in on the end of the previous tour but it was actually the one I signed up for. When other couples started strolling in after us I realized that it wasn’t just me who misinterpreted the 7:30 start time on the website’s calendar.
Just FYI!

As the husband of a wife having a baby boy here I was very pleased with the service overall of all of the nurses and staff. Dr Mackenzie was a great obgyn and really made all the difference for a very tough delivery. He made some good calls during the delivery and I trust him 100%.
Other than that the food here is fantastic. I reccomend the Mt. Auburn egg sandwich with sausage, chicken salad sandwich, caprese salad, meatloaf with mashed potatoes, bacon cheeseburger and carrot cake. Hey, I was here for three days. Don’t judge! :)

We just had our baby at the Bain Birthing Center at Mt. Auburn Hospital and it was an amazing experience ! They were very attentive and mother/​baby-​focused. We chose the hospital because of the midwives that service Mt Auburn, and the treatment was great. They were on-​hand at every step of the way to make sure we had the birthing experience we wanted. The L&D nurses were ready to answer every question, and helped my wife through her delivery. We were not rushed or hurried, and they guided us through every part of the process. The post-​partum care was incomparably excellent. We never felt alone or uncared for. As a highly detail-​oriented father, I found that they were always ready to address my every concern. We were always with our newborn baby, and has every opportunity for bonding. I totally recommend.

I had my daughter here and it was a fabulous experience. The nurses in labor and delivery were mostly fabulous, and none were bad. (I had many, I was there twice and had to be induced at nearly 42 weeks!) The rooms are beautiful, some have gorgeous views, and some have jacuzzi tubs.
Best of all are the maternity ward nurses. They were so sweet and amazing. They really made the surreal and slightly scary experience of new parenthood quite a bit easier. I felt like they truly cared about both me and my baby. During stressful moments after we went home, I told my husband I wished we could go back! I just can’t say enough wonderful things about my nurses there.

The Bain Birthing Center at Mt. Auburn is a comprehensive birthing, neonatal and post-​partum care center. They have a wide-​spectrum approach to birth, meaning that they provide for anything from natural birth to emergency c-​sections and level 2 nursery that is able to provide care for babies with various conditions and illnesses.
The staff consists of OB/​GYN doctors, midwives, and nurses — all of whom seem to be deeply caring and kind.
The facilities consist of several birthing rooms, all with private bathrooms and some with heaven-​sent jacuzzi tubs to relieve labor pains. Each room is fully equipped with all medical gear and supplies possibly needed for birth. There are also operating suites in the same facility for C-​sections and any other necessary surgeries.
The nursery and the maternity ward are on the same floor. I really liked the nurses and midwives, who were all very helpful and approachable for all our new-​parent questions. The walls in the maternity ward are unfortunately too thin to block out newborn cries, and thankfully there are always lots of babies with very healthy lungs to keep the music going.
While the Center has many positives to be proud of, I subtracted a star for two reasons:
1. Their IV (intravenous) team only works days, which left two poor nurses struggling to stick an IV line into my VERY unwelcoming veins
2. One of the baby’s tests was borderline problematic, leading to a retest, a follow up with a specialist and the landslide disproof of the initial test findings — a very stressful experience for us as new parents, and very painful for a 2-​week old baby.
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