Northern Light Women’s Health — Bangor

Edited: my overseeing OB was Irving They delivered my baby in May 2025 and it was a hellish experience. It was 2 residents with an overseeing OB (Dr. Sarah Irving) in the room. Resident OB was very kind and helpful, but overseeing OB had terrible bedside manner. I was actively hemorrhaging and Irving wouldn't stop staring at her phone in the room while the residents were digging my placenta out. Irving even put her finger up to hold on while she was on the phone when the resident was trying to tell her that my placenta was breaking off in pieces. She was rude to every single resident every time they asked her something and purposely made them look stupid. Irving rolled her eyes at me after asking how much longer she thought the pushing would take. I had asked her about 4 times in a 2 hour span because my memory was off due to IV magnesium from preeclampsia. They left my placenta sitting in a bucket on the countertop and blood all over the floor for 2 days until I was moved from labor and delivery. My epidural didn't work from my lower abdomen (cervical area) down and I kept telling them that I could feel their hands/arms going in and out while they were elbow deep grabbing my placenta. Irving rolled her eyes at me twice while I was begging them to wait a moment or give me some sort of pain medication because the digging hurt so badly. They eventually gave me pain meds via IV after nearly 50 mins of digging. I also felt them stitching the tears up afterwards. I was in terrible pain after delivery/digging for placenta and was begging for someone to take a look to see why it hurt so bad. Irving refused to look at laughed and said "you just delivered a baby, so that's why it hurts". ~30 min later, 2 nurses came in put a urinary catheter (I was on magnesium drip for hypertension/preeclampsia, so cath was required). The nurse said I had a massive hematoma from my vulva to butt cheek and that was causing the pain. They gave me pain meds after that and I never saw Irving again. I'd rather give birth in a ditch during a snowstorm than be belittled by Dr. Irving during labor again. I am very thankful for my labor and delivery nurse, Addy, for helping me so much and being incredibly kind. My partner was with me the entire time and was also traumatized by her behavior and witnessed everything stated above. He and I were too scared to speak up in fear they would further decrease my level of care and compassion due to it.

Every experience I had here was great! Dr. Faggons was so amazing every step of the way. She was there to deliver my baby and calm any nerves (and stupid questions) I had about my c-section. Dr. Harper did a lot of my prenatal care as well and she was so caring and amazing! I look back at my pregnancy with such fond memories because of everyone at this office. I never really had to wait very long and they were always quick to get me in if I needed to be seen. I had 1 singular bad experience post partum with a male doctor who was Dr. Anderson (who I only saw because I needed to get in quick ) and it was very clear he didn’t care at all that I was struggling with PPD and not healing well from surgery. Other than that I only had positive experiences and highly suggest being seen here