Ped search

The search is on, and over, I hope, for a pediatrician for the babe-to-be. Based solely on the internet. : This one guy comes HIGHLY recommended by several MDC mamas, and you know it's a major miracle to get us to agree on anything. More important, he takes our insurance. And he has 2 offices, one near where we are now and one near where we might move. Here's the weirdness: we won't know the gender of our babe until the birth (must be lined up before you are discharged from the hospita pursuant to state law), and he's a man in a solo practice. No female partner. I have a gut feeling that if I have a daughter, she should have a female ped (and, to a lesser extent, that a son should have a male ped).

As a child, I went to a practice with one female doctor whom my mother refused to use, only the male doctors, but she got creeped out about it (the gender thing) when I was 9 and switched me to a new practice with a good female doctor. As it turns out, one of the "good" male doctors in the original practice later (like when my brother and I were adults) pleaded no contest to sexually abusing male patients, 89 of whom came forward. So...I realize that my gender matching intuition is not supported by the evidence, but I still feel it. (I myself would have to be darn desperate to go to a male doctor for anything more personal than dentistry...or anything not requiring some super-rare specialist...in which case I would go to whomever I needed to go to.) Anyone care to share their feelings about this?