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<div style="font-style:italic;">Dr Lam of Alpine Pediatrics (I think that's the name), seems pretty good. The boy I nanny goes to him but I've just been to one appt. The doc is an intact male, and at the baby's 2 month appt, he didn't even take the diaper off (babe is also intact). The baby's parents also decided the not give him hep B or rotavirus until age 2 or 3 and the doc was totally fine with that, but I'm not sure how he would be if you didn't want to do any. He also seemed very pro breastfeeding when he went on about how great it is and why breastfed babies hardly ever have colic etc, and even recommended probiotics to help the baby's colic (after I asked about it though). The office is at about 100 S and 1100 E</div>
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Dr. Lam was in my Medicaid book, and I met with him yesterday. I am very pleased with his answers to my questions. For future referrence, if anyone else is looking for a Ped here is what he answered:<br><br>
Q. We are planning on doing Selective & Delayed Vaxinations, what is your policy on vaxing?<br>
A. Many parents choose to do the same, and some even choose not to vaxinate at all. I leave the desicion up to the parents, and we can come up with your own vaxination schedule to suit your needs.<br><br>
Q. We would like to avoid any vaxinations with Mercury.<br>
A. We haven't used anything with mercury since 1999.<br><br>
Q. We will not be circumsizing our son......<br>
A. Good! Here is how to care for an uncircumsized penis: First of all, don't retract the forskin under any circumstances until the glands seperate on thier own- when they are about 3-4 years old. When the glands do seperate, you will then teach them how to retract the forskin to clean under it.<br><br>
Q. At what point would you reccomend for me to supplement with formula.<br>
A. You can breastfeed until they are in kindergarten if you want.. haha. I would reccomend that you supplement with formula only in the first couple days while your milk is coming in. But, not a lot, and only to satisfy thier thirst and hunger, to avoid nipple confusion. Of course, that is also up to you if you choose to do it or not.<br><br>
Q. DH and I are vegan, so we won't be using any cow's milk formula at all...<br>
A. That's great. You can use soy if you'd like, and you choose supplementing. One of my colleges here in the office is vegetarian, and raised all her children vegetarian. I think it's very healthy. And, we are learning that baby's do not need to be fat anymore, as we previously thought.<br><br>
I think that was pretty much it.. Those aren't verbatum quotes, but you get the idea anyway.<br><br>
I think we will end up going with him. He seams very happy and "jolly". Thanks for the suggestions everyone!
