Okay, so I was totally nervous about going to a different ped for Em, since the older girls ped was also my OB for both pregnancies, and she and I click so well, and she trusts me and my judgement/research/medical background that all I have to do is call on the minor stuff and she'll call in the needed script or write out the forms/orders without an office visit or paperwork charge... but the hospital she's attatched to I absolutely hate. They could easily be held responsible for alot of our continuing issues with both older girls {case in point, they missed a large 'bag' of water at the base of Kait's brain on EIGHT ultrasounds, including four specifically geared toward cranial size issues, and therefore delayed treatments} So it was time to part ways. When Tony and i decided to TTC, we agreed from the beginning we'd do whatever we had to do to prevent the bean that became Miss Emma from having any contact with that hospital... which is why I got a new OB at the brand-new hospital on the edge of the big city, forty five minutes away.... Even though I LOVE my new OB/GYN, adore the LDPR staff and don't know how I would have made it through the last week and all the scares without them and especially the LC and special care nurses, I was a bit leary of going to the new ped for Em's first official visit today. But...
I LOVE THIS GUY
Right from the start I was impressed by the staff and the operations of the office. They oohed and aahed over Emma, and were quite impressed with Tony and his handling of things {the staff came from the downtown 'main' hospital, and I guess there's a lack of paternal intrest or something down there, cause the LDPR staff expressed much the same surprise} Then there was only a FIVE MINUTE lapse between the time we were shown to a room and the weight check was administered before the doctor came in! He saw the bottle sitting on the exam table and asked if we were formula feeding. I told him it was EBM and he asked why and listened and really paid attention as I explained last week and the reasons we ended up deciding to go that route. He agreed that it is the best thing, and the right track for her. He looked at her eyes and skin tone and said that he wasn't concerned about jaundice, but would send us on upstairs for a transdermal bili count, just to allay {sp?} my fears on the issue... we had a good ten minute discussion on Em's weight gain {four ounces since saturday's release from special care, now at an ounce under birth weight @ ten days of age} and he assured us that her weight gain and sleep patterns were perfectly fine and was very insistant that we continue with breastfeeding for as long as possible, no matter what form !!!!!!!!!!!! He also agreed with our decision to delay and selective vax, even though it goes against the 'formal policy' of his group affiliation.... The visit was almost an hour long, and he was very careful to cover all our concerns, as well as lay out his philosophies {sp?} and practice for us. He said that he felt we were very well informed, and that we had things well under control. He scheduled us to come in next week for a weight check, and in four weeks for her well baby check and second assessment... he even took the time to talk car shopping with us, and said that his wife is due any day now with their third, and they too are trying to find the safest, most road-worthy vehicle for their family, and that he shares our feeling that three car seats and two adults in a five seater is a torture device fit for military use....
I LOVE THIS GUY
Right from the start I was impressed by the staff and the operations of the office. They oohed and aahed over Emma, and were quite impressed with Tony and his handling of things {the staff came from the downtown 'main' hospital, and I guess there's a lack of paternal intrest or something down there, cause the LDPR staff expressed much the same surprise} Then there was only a FIVE MINUTE lapse between the time we were shown to a room and the weight check was administered before the doctor came in! He saw the bottle sitting on the exam table and asked if we were formula feeding. I told him it was EBM and he asked why and listened and really paid attention as I explained last week and the reasons we ended up deciding to go that route. He agreed that it is the best thing, and the right track for her. He looked at her eyes and skin tone and said that he wasn't concerned about jaundice, but would send us on upstairs for a transdermal bili count, just to allay {sp?} my fears on the issue... we had a good ten minute discussion on Em's weight gain {four ounces since saturday's release from special care, now at an ounce under birth weight @ ten days of age} and he assured us that her weight gain and sleep patterns were perfectly fine and was very insistant that we continue with breastfeeding for as long as possible, no matter what form !!!!!!!!!!!! He also agreed with our decision to delay and selective vax, even though it goes against the 'formal policy' of his group affiliation.... The visit was almost an hour long, and he was very careful to cover all our concerns, as well as lay out his philosophies {sp?} and practice for us. He said that he felt we were very well informed, and that we had things well under control. He scheduled us to come in next week for a weight check, and in four weeks for her well baby check and second assessment... he even took the time to talk car shopping with us, and said that his wife is due any day now with their third, and they too are trying to find the safest, most road-worthy vehicle for their family, and that he shares our feeling that three car seats and two adults in a five seater is a torture device fit for military use....
My 18 mo old has his appt today, I love his ped (my own dad is a ped and sadly we butt heads all the time, b/c he is very condescending... not just to me, but this is how he is with his patients too and is just one of those peds that is very old style, by the book, etc.). Anyway, my son's ped is so easy to talk to, ALWAYS takes a lot of time to talk about developmental stuff, pro-BF AND I was very eager to discuss my decision this time (with this aug baby... if he ever shows up) to delay/selectively vax. We had a very good discussion about it (my dad FREAKED when I had even brought up that we would be delaying or not even giving my 18 mo old the chix pox vax and I told my ped about my dad's reaction and why I was so eager to have a decent discussion with him, since I wasn't able to even do that with my own father w/o him basically calling me stupid), and he is very supportive of it and thinks it is a good idea that I have researched things and gave me his opinion about the vaxs he felt were most important, and ones that he felt were very low priority. He says he is more than willing to work with me regarding the vax scheduling.
Bonus points for him! He also told me that you can't hold a baby too much and not to feed him anything but breast milk. I think I'll get along with him just fine.
