Ped visits - what to expect?

[lj2blessed]

Today my baby girl has her "2 month" ped visit, last time we went was at 3 weeks because they were doing every week visits to monitor her weight. I'm back at work so DH is taking her and I'm wondering what's gonna happen

I know they'll weigh her (we're anxious to see how big she is)...and I looked up the rec'd vax for this age and have told DH to refuse all with the "we need to research them still" answer. Is that all (weigh/measure and try to vax)? Is that the sole purpose of these visits...so I can start skipping them if need be?

I didn't buy any of those "What to Expect" books so I kinda feel lost on this one...can y'all help me out?

[bodhitree]

My baby hasn't had her two-month visit yet, so I can't speak to what in particular that one will involve. I did want to say though, that well baby visits also include routine checks to detect medical issues that you as a parent might not spot. My baby has already had two different problems detected during routine ped visits that we never would have known about otherwise, so I personally would not skip well baby visits.

[mysticmomma]

It's usually weigh/measure/shots. The current WBV schedule is set up for vax's. Make sure your dh can stand strong. We never did wbv on that schedule. They'll ask about sleepign and eating, peeing and pooping.

[emmaegbert]

Weigh, poke, prod, etc. And depending who you get they might make recommendations. I got one for vitamins which sounded weird to me for a 3 week old baby so I checked w/ my MW and she agreed w/ me that better for ME to take vitamins than my exclusively bf baby. Anyway, you can just say, yeah yeah and do whatever you want about it.

Also I remember w/ DS they used to ask about discipline sort of stuff-- actually to make sure that my expectations for the baby were developmentally appropriate (like I wasn't trying to use time outs with an infant or something).

They might or might not ask about sleeping arrangements and some docs are really nosy about that stuff (its really none of their beeswax other than that they should be assessing if the baby gets a normal AMOUNT of sleep).

They SHOULD also make time for you to ask questions.

I am thinking we'll skip the 2mos if Phoebe seems fine to us and probably go first at 4mos or so.

I survived just fine w/out the "what to expect" books, you'll be fine!

[Peony]

I'm not a fan of the What to Expect books, a much better all around resource IMO is the Baby Book by Dr. Sears. Almost anything you need to know for the first year of life is in there.


I do some WBV when I feel like it. I don't do it for me, only to keep some sort of a record. My first child didn't do WBV until she was 4, now she has gone in a couple times because we have needed referrals for some of her issues. My 2nd child has health problems so I've stuck to the schedule for her, we've always needed to update her chart or get different inhalers, etc... so every appointment has been productive with her. I brought Julian in at two weeks just so the pedi could meet him, and I won't bring him back for quite a while, so I don't see a need for him to stick to the schedule. I love our pedi, she never pushes vaxs or anything, but not enough to bring a healthy child into an office regularly!

[Azreial]

weighing, probably asking questions about how much she's eating. It should be like the other visits she's had.

We don't vax and our gp says the WBV is set up for the vaxes and we can come when we feel like we need it pretty much.

My babies tend to grow very slowly though so we ended up going more than the WBV

[Murph12334]

pretty much what others said.

who i took my dd to when she was a babe they were sticklers about shots.i was able to get them to not ask for a bit by saying we took her too the health dept for shots.