Dr. Deborah Coy

[ShannonCC]

I was reading the back messages and saw someone mentioned this woman as being a good dr in West Orange? Can someone fill me in? Is she ok with no vaxing? Is she ok with extended bf, co-sleeping, homeschooling?

We are currently seeing Dr. Schlachter in Essex Fells. I think he's great, but he's not on our insurance plan so it's a lot of money :( I did a quick search and Dr. Coy is on our plan :D But I'm not willing to go to a mainstream dr again, so I'd like to know if she's good for us slightly crunchy, AP mamas ;)

[Lil'M]

Hi! Nice to meet someone in my area. Actually, we don't use Dr. Coy (not on our plan), but several people in my La Leche group do. I know she is good about co-sleeping, extended breastfeeding and homeschooling, I think she is flexible about vax but I'm not sure. Call her and ask.

Good Luck!

Miriam

[ShannonCC]

What, you mean actually ask the dr? LOL! I know, I know, I just hate asking doctors things like that. I am so non-confrontational and wussy it's sad. But I'm glad to hear she's liked :D

I am in Union, but West Orange is pretty close. About 20 minutes. The dr we see now is about 40 minutes away.

I keep meaning to go to a LLL group, but they all seem to start so early and we're not morning people round here . . . . oh well.

[Lil'M]

There is a La Leche group that meets in Springfield much of the time. I think they meet on the 1st Wed morning of the month at 10am. Our group is the Livingston/W.Orange group and we meet on the 2nd Fri. morning at 10am. I don't know for sure about the other group, but at ours, people tend to hang around until about 12:30, so even if you missed the bulk of the meeting you can still socialize, browse the library, get questions answered etc. Our info is at www.geocities.com/westorangelaleche

[me&3]

We go to Dr. Coy, and love her. :love She has no problem with me setting my children's vax schedules- but that is her - not the other doctors in the practice. I don't care for the man in the practice so much, personally, but the newer young woman is sweet - but not as AP friendly as Coy.
Good luck!

[Deirdre]

At the suggestion of someone on this board I changed to Dr. Coy a few months ago. She seemed to have no problem with the fact that I was still breastfeeing dd at 18 months and the issue of where she sleeps never came up :) As far as vaxing goes, I made it clear that I wanted no MMR until dd was older and no Hep B right now and no varicella. She didn't see any problem with it. My dd did have her Hib and IPV. I am not completely anti-vax, just want a modified schedule and Dr. Coy seems cool with that....

-Deirdre