https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 01 May 2026 11:10:09 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nyc-bees-ob-and-hospital-recs#post-2651962 Mon, 14 Nov 2016 07:02:33 +0000 Mrs. Bee 2651962@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my ob only takes high risk patients now. my first experience at ny presbyterian was awful (the nurse, randomly a ton of women giving birth at the same time, etc.). my second experience was incredible. it's an amazing hospital overall if you do give birth there with a nicu. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nyc-bees-ob-and-hospital-recs#post-2651896 Sun, 13 Nov 2016 21:04:37 +0000 Tidybee 2651896@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I used NYU Midtown Ob/Gyn. I saw Dr. Benedetto throughout my struggle to get pregnant with DD1. I. LOVED. HER. She and her husband run the practice. She's Italian and is very no nonsense and straight to the point. But she has a heart of gold, coming in just to see me in the hospital as Hurricane Sandy was bearing down on NYC and held my little girl for a good 15 min, just snuggling her. Once we moved away and i had a number of miscarriages trying for DD2, I called her several times just to ask her advice, even though I wasn't her patient any more. Her one fault is that she swore she'd deliver me but then she didn't. She saw me on Thursday and was convinced I wouldn't be delivering by my due date 3 days later so she was spending the weekend with her daughter because of the hurricane when I went into labor. I had another doctor in her practice, Dr. Cheon who was equally as fantastic and guided me through my labor and delivery with an amazing bed side manner. I wish I could still be at that practice.<br /> No complaints about NYU - I mean, we just spent the night in the dark and had to be evacuated...no big deal hahah. But they handled it beautifully and professionally. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nyc-bees-ob-and-hospital-recs#post-2651879 Sun, 13 Nov 2016 20:39:57 +0000 Beehive 2651879@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love my OBs too - it's an all-female practice on the UES, Brodman, Friedman and Kim. Dr. Brodman won't be delivering babies after the new year, but I love Dr. Friedman and Dr. Kim (who delivered my son). They're super friendly and relatively old school (not crunchy), if you like that vibe. The wait time in the office tends to be very good too. They deliver at Mount Sinai. I get the sense that they might be okay taking a new patient at 25 weeks. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nyc-bees-ob-and-hospital-recs#post-2651849 Sun, 13 Nov 2016 19:44:55 +0000 hilsy85 2651849@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I LOVED my obs--Drs. Cha and Metz. They are on the UES and they deliver at Mount Sinai. Seriously the best--different personalities, but I love them both and trust them enormously. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nyc-bees-ob-and-hospital-recs#post-2651830 Sun, 13 Nov 2016 17:37:14 +0000 nana87 2651830@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I love my ob (Katrina Bradley ) but she delivers at SLR, so might not be worth the switch ...</p> <p>Eta her office is at 86th and cpw so not so convenient for LIC... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/nyc-bees-ob-and-hospital-recs#post-2651814 Sun, 13 Nov 2016 15:39:30 +0000 WyattnewbabysMama 2651814@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Sorry this is long. </p> <p>The short version: can you recommend your Manhattan or Queens hospital and OB?</p> <p>The long version: 14 months ago, I delivered my son at St. Luke’s Roosevelt (now I believe Mt. Sinai West) on 11th Ave at 59th. I love love love my doctor—Dr. Nicolle Underwood—with Westcare OBGYN (located near the Natural History Museum on the UWS). While I was pregnant with my son, we moved to Long Island City Queens but since I was already established with the practice, I continued there for the full pregnancy. I figured I’d switch for a more convenient practice but for the fact that she is just so so wonderful—and after having such a good experience with her during our time trying to conceive including a minor surgery, plus her care while I was pregnant, and then her continued care since (including visiting my son and I in the NICU after his birth and being accessible via text and I could go on and on). But… I just found out that she is moving to California… So I’m trying to decide if I should just switch to another doctor in the same practice—who I know very little about—other than that I had a good experience with her—even though the location is not at all convenient to my home or work. Or if I should find a new practice, made trickier by the fact that I am currently 25 weeks pregnant with my daughter!</p> <p>Here are some of my concerns/considerations: Or to put it another way, my perfect practice wishlist:</p> <p>1) Delivers at a very good hospital—with a good NICU just in case—could be in Manhattan or Queens but preferably convenient to Long Island City (i.e. east side or at least mid-town. Nothing WAY uptown or downtown Manhattan)<br /> 2) The practice itself needs to be convenient—or at least no more inconvenient than my current practice. Long Island City near my home. Midtown Manhattan. Or downtown near my work.<br /> 3) I am currently scheduled to meet with a high risk OB at St Luke’s Roosevelt to get approval to try for a VBAC. I’m only high risk in that my son and daughter will only be 17 months apart—and apparently anything under 18 months automatically requires approval from high risk—or at least it does at St. Luke’s Roosevelt. So of course, I do want to know if any new doctor would let me try for a VBAC (assuming of course that it is safe and all goes well).<br /> 4) A female OB.<br /> 5) And if the hospital had cheaper private rooms than St. Luke’s Roosevelt, that would be fantastic too.<br /> 6) Willing to take a new patient—who is 25 weeks pregnant.</p> <p>Is this impossible? Am I asking too much? What would you do? Stick with your current practice? Do any of you happen to have a doctor that I should definitely go check out? </p>