Hi Mummies
Wanted to share my experience on Dr Tan Poh Kok. This is my second child and my first gynae was Dr Adrian Woodworth. I signed my package with Dr Tan and everything is fine initially. Very minimal waiting time during weekday, doctor is quite friendly and the whole thing is smooth and easy.
However, there is one incident that made me decided to not further engage Dr Tan and to switch back to Dr Woodworth at my 35th week. I was told by Dr Tan that my placenta position is low, not once, but he had the same diagnosis three times over my three appointments with him.
He says that a C-Sect is required because there is risk of baby rapturing the placenta during natural birth and causing the mother to bleed heavily. He also insisted that the C-Sect has to happen at the 38th week because it is risky to do it on the 39th week. I had expressed my wish to do C-Sect only on the 39th weeks but he kept mentioning about the risks and why would i want to subject myself to that.
He sounded serious and instructed me that if any bleeding happens from now till 38th week, i must admit into hospital without delay. This actually stressed me out as i am hoping that baby can grow more in my tummy under my protection.
I was very reluctant to do so and i went to see my detail scan result. I was very buffled when the result clearly states that my placenta position is not low. I then recalled during the ultrasound scan, Dr Tan tried to explain the position of the baby head, placenta and opening but those positions do not appear logical to me. I was like "if the placenta and the baby head is here, how can the opening be here?". Feeling very unsettled, i decided to go back to Dr Adrian for a second opinion.
Upon see Dr Adrian, after giving him all my prior scan results and explaining the background, Dr Adrian gave me a puzzled look and the first thing that he said was "the test result shows that the placenta is not low?". He then proceeded with a scan and diagnosed that the placenta is NOT low, while pointing to the positions on his screen that made more sense. He also said that a C-Sect is NOT required.
I was so relieved upon hearing that and despite already being in the 35th weeks of pregnancy, i decided to sign Dr Adrian's package and stayed with him.
But on the other hand, i am very concerned with Dr Tan's diagnosis ability and also whatever agenda that he may have by asking a mother to go under the knife, and bringing a baby into the world earlier than required when there is no necessity to do so.