Andrea Campaigne, MD

For the record, Dr. Ofobike, Liane McPherson, and the staff were always helpful and polite. My experience with Nurture as a husband and expecting father was energetic and positive up until the day before the birth. At this point, expectations and the typical doctor/​patient relationship broke down due to Campaigne’s inability to accept that some clients desire to be active participants in the choices that affect them. At no time did my wife and I make decisions or ask questions without first prioritizing the health and well being of our child.
Dr. Ofobike two days prior to our encounter with Campaigne felt that both baby and mom were doing great. As any first time father can relate, I was a ball of nerves and was waiting for the inevitable ‘it’s time!’ At 8 days past due, my wife and I arrived for a check up. The first part of the appointment included a sonogram and the size estimation. Afterwards, we were asked to sit down in a room and wait for Campaigne. As the door shut, so did our positive experience with Nurture, more specifically Campaigne. Within the first few minutes of conversation it was readily apparent that the supporting, «nurturing» woman that had gained our trust and respect was no longer to be found. Although I cannot pinpoint the exact moment Campaigne’s original persona faded away, she shifted to an emotionally charged and pompous doctor that couldn’t speak without mentioning some sort of intervention. When presented with a recommendation to schedule an induction based on Campaigne’s belief that something was pathologically wrong, my wife began asking valid questions based on months of research. This pushed Campaigne over the edge and set the tone for the next 26 hours. She eventually exited the room abruptly and left us with unnecessary anxiety.
As luck so has it, against Campaigne’s all knowing wisdom, my wife went into labor hours after the visit. When I called Campaigne to inform her, there was no excitement or joy in her voice. In the hospital room, it was clearly her versus my wife which put me in a very unnerving and upsetting position. It appeared that Campaigne had read the book on interventions moments before walking into the room. Within minutes she «strongly» suggested an epidural, followed by pitocin, and then came a relentless barrage of reasons for a C section. Additionally, Campaigne stated that my wife would not be able to push the baby out. Fortunately for us, Campaigne surprisingly had to leave our room to perform a C section for another patient which afforded us the time for labor to progress.
At one point, I had to do what no husband expects to do which was to ask Campaigne to step out into the hall so that I could talk to her. At this point, as tears filled my eyes, I asked her to please be nicer to my wife as her tone, attitude, and abruptness was making her very upset. My wife would get emotional after every encounter with Campaigne. Campaigne re-​entered the room and apologized to my wife for making her upset. Not for her pathetic attitude, not for her ridiculous bedside manner, not for her lack of support. This juvenile behavior is not what one would expect from a self proclaimed «great» doctor. She eventually even asked if she should get us another doctor and I still to this day wish I would have told her yes. If you take away anything from this message, always remember you are in charge in the delivery room. I let my guard down and failed to take control of the situation. In hindsight, I should have pulled Campaigne to the side right at the beginning and asked her to either support our decisions and answer my wife’s questions, or find us someone who will. If it wasn’t for the incredible staff and our doula, I am not sure how the birth would have transpired.
Against all of Campaigne’s recommendations and bullying, my wife pushed through and delivered our beautiful, healthy daughter vaginally. The last experience I had with Campaigne was listening to her claiming to have done a great job. She didn’t recognize my wife’s awesome persistence nor did she apologize for her unprofessional behavior.
You may agree or disagree with my opinion of Campaigne, but the person that we experienced during this critical and emotional point of our life was the exact opposite of the doctor we needed. At the end of the day, you may select your normal physician on availability and geographic practicality, but you strategically select your OBGYN to mitigate risk and ensure the best birth experience for both child and mother. If you are wondering why this review comes so long after the birth, it is because I needed the time to calm myself and not allow petty hatred to fill the page. I truly hope that Campaigne may recognize her faults and better herself. To those that had a good experience with her, I am envious.
To Campaigne, rather than sending another pointless private message claiming that I, like my wife, made you question your decision to be a doctor, feel free to call me.

After a having a difficult patient experience with another provider for the birth of my daughter in 2009, I was thrilled to learn about Nurture! I loved Liane, the midwife at Nurture back when she was a provider at the other OBGYN practice, and I knew in a heartbeat that I would follow her and Dr. Campaigne anywhere! I now go to Nurture for all my well woman checks, and should I ever decide to have another baby, I’ll be confident I made the right OBGYN choice in Dr. Campaigne and Liane. Having had a medically necessary emergency C-​section for my first birth, I can say this: you never know what is going to happen. You have to trust your provider and your intuition at the same time, but you also have to be partners with your doctor and spend time getting to know each other and building that trust. I would definitely want to try a VBAC, and I know Dr. C will be supportive, but ultimately I trust her judgement. I trust her and believe that she and her staff are among the most caring, compassionate, well educated, and attentive providers in Austin. I also know them to be very active in a number of important women’s health care issues in Austin, and that speaks highly to their commitment to quality care for their patients. I highly recommend Nurture!

Only place in town where you can get your abs sewn together after a c section! This awesome closer procedure after surgery makes you actually recover in only two weeks. I was up doing everything into weeks flat. My previous C-​section with a different surgeon took me 6 to 8 weeks to recover and my abs never came back!

The stars aligned when Dr. Campaigne and Nurture entered my life.
I spent my first pregnancy with a well-​respected OB at a large practice that boasted of leading-​edge treatment and individual attention and care. Unfortunately, most of the attention and care I received was not from my OB, and instead came from nurse practitioners and several of the other dozen OBs at the clinic. Don’t get me wrong, my OB was very nice and probably a great doctor, but I only saw her 3x during my entire pregnancy … and no longer than 10min each time. She just had too many patients and very little time for me. I was never able to develop any sort of relationship with her, yet this was the person that was going to deliver my first child.
And then fate stepped in when 2 weeks prior to my due date my OB informed me that she would be out on holiday for a week on my due date and not to worry because someone else from the clinic would deliver the baby if she weren’t here. I was devastated to say the least, because now a complete stranger might deliver the baby.
But it wasn’t a complete stranger … it was Dr. Campaigne. From the moment my husband and I met her at the hospital we felt like it was meant to be. Dr. Campaigne is everything I’ve ever wanted in a doctor. She is kind, compassionate, knowledgeable, and laid-​back. I was completely obsessed with her from that moment on.
Two more pregnancies in back-​to-​back years and Nurture is now like a second home (I wish). I adore all of the women there! Dr. Campaigne and Liane are my gal pals and I feel like I can talk to them about anything. They also are hilarious. The staff is phenomenal– shoutout to Shawntai, Amanda, Kim and Erika! The Nurture office is unbelievably gorgeous … far and away the most beautiful doctor’s office I have ever been in. Very «Restoration Hardware» designer dream. I want to live there.
I am so lucky to have found Nurture.

On April 21, 2013 at 4:38 am I gave birth to my second little boy, Palmer Taggart Austin. At the beginning of this pregnancy I decided I wanted something different, something different, than how I birthed Ryker. With Ryker I felt like I was robbed of my right to deliver him the way I wanted to because of someone else’s schedule, and traditionally minded medical care professionals; resulting in an emergency c-​section. Through educating myself and researching natural childbirth, I found Nurture OBGYN with Dr. Andrea Campaigne and an amazing midwife Liane MacPherson. With their belief in the power of women, communication and the value of a natural birth, I was able to have the pregnancy, labor and delivery that I always wanted. In addition to having them as my support team, they directed me to GALS (Giving Austin Labor Support), where I was connected with Sara Mosqueda, who volunteered, her love, time and support as my doula.
By comparison, Palmer’s delivery was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. I had loving hands and unwavering strength from Liane, Sara, and Simon, that got me through some of the most excruciating pain I’ve ever endured, but resulted in the delivery of my beautiful baby boy. This entire experience has renewed my faith in myself and restored my power as a woman; our bodies are truly unique and capable of anything.
Thank you to my support team and my husband. I couldn’t be happier and more proud of myself and my family. I have nothing but the utmost respect for Sara and doulas alike, and Andrea and Liane for their model for healthcare for women.

When I became pregnant, I knew that I wanted an OBGYN with a low c-​section rate. After extensive research, I chose Nurture (Andrea Campaigne’s practice). While I did deliver vaginally, I made the wrong decision by choosing Nurture.
Everything was wonderful and I sung their praises throughout my prenatal care. Then, at 8 days past due, it all went down hill. 2 days prior, we (DH and I) had met with Dr, Ofobakay and had a fetal stress test. She told us everything looked great. The nurse had even mentioned that Dr. O had been asking about us & whether we had delivered yet because she was hoping to be the one to deliver our baby.
2 days later, we met with Andrea Campaigne and the tone completely changed. Dr. C said that it was abnormal for labor to have not begun yet and she thought that it must be a pathological reason and we needed to seriously consider inducing. We asked Dr. C questions and it became clear that she did not like us questioning her judgement. She crossed her arms and stated, in a condescending tone, that «you need to trust your provider.» I had read several current prenatal books that were written by MDs/​OBGYNs and she basically told me that everything that I had read was incorrect. She informed us that she would be on call over the weekend and we could set up an induction with her. After leaving, my DH and I decided that, if we did induce, we would wait until at least Monday so that we would not have Dr.C. Four hours later, I went into labor naturally. Upon arrival to the hospital, I was 7 cm and Dr. C strongly suggested an epidural. She knows that I am afraid of needles. While the epidural was being placed, she made condescending comments about me being fearful.
After ~5 hours, I was 10 cm dilated, but the baby had not dropped below a –3 or –2. Dr. C said that since the baby wasn’t dropping, she was probably too big and we needed to seriously start thinking about a c-​section. I said that I didn’t want to yet, since the monitors showed that the baby was fine. She left to perform a c-​section on someone else and by the time she came back, my baby had dropped to –1 or 0. When she checked me, she found meconium. She was incredibly alarmed & kept repeating «not good». She again recommended a c-​section saying that the baby could inhale the meconium & end up in the NICU. We decided to wait.
She was condescending throughout the experience anytime I asked questions. When she made me cry, my DH pulled her into the hallway and asked her to be nicer. She came back and apologized for making me cry and stated that I need to trust her. She said that she could get me another Dr if I wanted; I should’ve said yes. I didn’t because I wasn’t sure how that would work with my insurance.
She had me start pushing before I felt ready & when the baby was at either a 0 or +1. I pushed for over 5 hours total. During the last hour, any question that I asked (primarily wanting to know what she was doing) was met with silence or she would say «its not about you, its about the baby». She also used a larger than normal catheter on me, telling me that they were out of the normal size. I had asked her to have a nurse call to another floor for the normal size as they previously had. She said they were out all over. She lied. The nurse successfully got me another one when I asked her to switch it out. Before Dr. C gave me an episiotomy, I told her that I was not numb and asked for a numbing shot. She ignored me. I repeated myself. She said «It’s not about you, it’s about the baby.» I repeated myself again and the nurse handed her one. It took seconds to give it to me rather than cut me while not numb (twice– she cut some and then cut more). After the birth, she sang her own praises about how she was able to keep the baby from breathing in the meconium. Afterwards, I read that meconium in the womb it quite common.
She was awful. I focused on my doula and husband as much as possible, but she still managed to really make it tough. My daughter was born not with her recommended induction, nor her recommended C-​section. I had her vaginally.
If you’re inquisitive and you take an active role in your health care/don’t blindly follow whatever your provider suggests, then she is not the provider for you.

Have been seeing these wonderful ladies for both obstetric and gynecological care for several years. No complaints at all. Actually ENJOY visits and couldn’t imagine going anywhere else!

I like to say my wife and I are veteran parents, but in reality we have three kids under the age of four. We just had our third in January of this year and I am writing this review as a dad of three that had the most amazing experience with the birth of my third child. Our first two children were born at Round Rock Medical. Both experiences were stressful, rough, and under informed. We felt like a number, we felt like natural births were not even possible for us and we went along with that to the tune of a 3 week early inducement of our first child and a c-​section of our second.
We wanted to do a VBack for our third. There are so many benefits to natural births, including the speed of recovery. So after searching and talking and knowing we were not going to go our traditional path, my wife found Nurture with Doctor Campaign as the OBGYN. My wife had a bunch of visits there due to the high risk of a VBack and some preeclampsia history. I met the Mid-​Wife on staff, Leann who gains instant trust by listening and encouraging you in the way your wife wants to give birth. She was great the entire way — really there are no words to explain the comfort, confidence and trust you will feel until you set up an appointment and experience Leann and the staff for yourself.
Throughout my wife’s 9 months of pregnancy I attended a handful of ultrasounds and checkups all of which were pleasant and understanding (I would bring my other 2 highly energetic kids there too).
Fast forward to the birth of our third as the first time I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Campaign. She was so informative, answered all my questions and concerns. She coached my wife through the birth, and continued to be confident and optimistic even when some other signs may have said differently.
We had our third baby without a c-​section! And I give all the credit to God first, but without Dr. Campaign and her staff at Nurture there is no way my wife would have even had the confidence to pursue this.
In all honesty Dr. Campaign and her colleagues at Nurture should be famous. They bent over backwards to build a relationship with my wife and understand all of her thoughts/​wants/​anxieties about baby #3 in the light of our past experiences. They built trust, which is so overlooked when picking a pregnancy doctor. Without this trust factor you really feel like a number, and you really feel all those unspoken deadlines that a hospital has to get you out of there in a timely manner. We felt none of that, we were so well taken care of, so well informed, perfectly coached, all the medical decisions were made with precision– and at the end it was the best experience for sure that I have had with any of my 2 other kids. I feel like a new dad and can stop saying that the birth of our third child was the most amazing experience I have ever had.
If you are looking for a doctors office that you can trust beyond the education they have, Nurture is the place. I couldn’t overstate the expertise, care, professionalism, quality, trustworthiness, of Dr. Campaign and her colleagues at Nurture. I highly, highly recommend them, and even if my wife and I did not have insurance we would use Dr. Campaign and Nurture.

I was a gestational surrogate 32 weeks pregnant with twins when the doctor I had been seeing told me to find another doctor, that he wasn’t the right one for me. All because he didn’t want to allow me to attempt a vaginal delivery with baby B being breech.
With the support of the intended mom I set out on a mission to find a doctor that would allow me to attempt a vaginally delivery with no drugs. This ended up being one of the hardest things I ever had to do. I started with a list of Austin area «high risk» doctors. I called and asked the same questions to each and every single one of them… Would you allow me to attempt a vaginal delivery if baby B is breech and a tad bigger than baby A? and Can I do it without drugs?
I couldn’t find anyone. I finally agreed to set up an appointment with the only place that would let me try a vaginal delivery with an epidural… when I got a phone call from a nurse at another location giving me the name and number to Nurture OBGYN. She told me that she spoke with Dr. Campaigne and that she was willing to take me on as a patient!
That first day walking into the practice I was so nervous. I didn’t know what to expect. The office was small but the set up was nice. Everyone there was amazing. So friendly.
When I met Dr. Campaigne and Liane (midwife) it was almost magical. Here were these two women that stood for everything that was important to me and they were willing to help me! I loved everything about them from Dr. Campaigne’s knowlege to Liane and her crunchiness!
The office visits leading up to the delivery were all so easy and comfortable. I spent an equal amount of time with Dr. Campaigne and Liane. I was never rushed and they answered all of my questions.
When I went into early labor Liane met me at the hospital. She didn’t force me to stay and allowed me to make the decision. I did end up staying and went into active labor after Dr. Campaigne broke my water the following morning. During my hospital stay they didn’t require that I stay strapped into the bed, I was able to move around and experience labor the way I wanted to.
Things didn’t end up going the way I had planned. Baby A was born vaginally but Baby B had to be delivered via c-​section. In the end, I wouldn’t have changed a thing. Dr. Campaigne stayed by my side and allowed me to try and have baby B vaginally. She never gave up on me. She also did the most amazing job with my incision. It’s been 6 weeks and you can’t even see it :) Plus it never really hurt. Amazing!
And I can’t say enough about Liane and that magical soothing voice of hers.
Love these ladies and will never forget all they did for me.