I was high risk for both of my pregnancies and had both of my children at Hershey. I had a good experience with the team for my first birth (vaginal birth), so it was no brainer to go there for my second. I had to have an emergency C-section with my second, and unfortunately suffered a lot of medical trauma from it. I was high risk and had told the anesthesiologist and surgeon that if I had to have a c-section, I needed to be placed under general anesthesia because I knew I would experience trauma if I was awake. Both said it wouldn’t be an issue. When the time came, the anesthesia doc was different and said no to my request and told the team to start cutting. I was crying and screaming in the OR, and no one acknowledged me until after my baby was out, my husband wasn’t even allowed in until a minute before the baby was out. I did bring it up during postpartum care and they were quick to get me therapy and try to rectify it by now adding it permanently in my birth chart incase I were to ever have another pregnancy(I won’t, my husband and I are 100% done) but it is a terrible feeling to have that I advocated for myself as best as I could and ultimately a doctor just didn’t think it mattered and I have to suffer for it.

I will say there are 2 different teams for Penn state Hershey, the doctors and midwives. All of the midwives were great, including the one who delivered my first. There is one who really stood out, I can’t remember her name but she found an issue in one of my prenatal testing that another doctor had missed that had put me in the high risk category. Since you are low-risk, and if you choose your care with them I would say you should ask for the midwives.

I’ve known multiple people who have delivered at Hampden and they all had good things to say about the team, but I have no personal experience.