Women & Children's Hospital

If you have a choice, run! This hospital was the most dreadful experience of my life and for my family. The NICU is crap! my son was born 6 weeks early, he was a perfectly healthy baby other than the fact that his lungs were underdeveloped. He stayed in NICU for 11 days and the whole time it was hell! The nurses were rude and did not want to take the time to explain my sons status, and they treated my husband and I as just an inconvenience. To top this all off try would only feed my baby my breast milk every 4 hours. I did not have a problem with this at first until I started noticing my son rolling around grunting and trying to suck on anything near his mouth, because of this I started telling the nurses I think my sons hungry..but every time I told them the nurses would blow me off with comments such as "you don't want to spoil you baby" or "you'll know when he's hungry he'll start screaming." Through my research it turns out a lot of preemies don't cry for things such as food because they're underdeveloped so don't know any better yet. The day my son was supposed to be discharged I got a call from this hospital & was told my son has lost a concerning amount of weight & even weighed less than his birth weight! Needless to say I was angry & when I expressed these concerned to another nurse her reply was flat out "well we just don't have the time to be feeding these babies more often than every 3 hours." After hearing this I ended up staying then next 2-3 nights with my son in the hospital so I could make sure he was being fed, I had to sneak extra feedings because despite my son having list weight the drs still were not feeding my son more often. Of course in the end my son was just fine once I made sure he was being fed more often & was discharged once he proved he could gain weight. now my son Is 5 months old & is due for another apt at this hospital and of course I'm having nothing but issues with these ppl over the phone. I dread having to take him back more

Childrens hospital of Buffalo is a depressing terrible place. My nephew was being treated for ALL leukemia and the staff was inconsiderate and forceful. nutritionist had no idea what she was talking about.some of the nurses clearly hated children. And one of the doctors wasn't following the protocol!!! My sister and her two year old left as soon as they got a chance. more

Women & Children's Hospital in Buffalo, NY is awesome. This is the story of the most traumatic experience in my life. My second son was delivered via c-section at 36 weeks due to severe hydroamniosis (I had too much amniotic fluid) and he was in respiratory distress and our pediatrician spent numerous hours with him and had to make the difficult decision to have him sent to Children's. I had yet to see him or hold him or touch him. They brought him in for me to see before they whisked him away. It was heartbreaking. But, this being said, Children's Hospital was AMAZING! I could call at any hour day or night. My husband spent his time between me at one hospital and Ben at Children's. I got out of the hospital early and went to see him. He was released a couple days later and is a healthy little boy now! Our oldest son had his tonsils and adenoids removed at the same hospital and we had another great experience there. I don't wish childhood illness or injury or disease on any child but it's wonderful to know that there are wonderful hospitals out there. more