~November Ninjas Friday Check In~
luvbrettnizzy
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Wanna be added? New here? This is a group for women expecting to have their baby in November. If you would like to join our group, please email me your information! My email address is holleich@aol.com. Please include your screen name, name, age and estimated due date, and gender if you know it.
NINJA BABY - If you would like the Ninja Baby for your siggy please put the following into your signature line. [img?] https://i41.tinypic.com/qovabt.jpg [/img?], be sure to remove the ?'s, otherwise it will not work. I have to type them in, otherwise the Ninja Baby would show up in the middle of the post!!
In the interest of shorter posts, I have made the November Mommies Due Date list a link! Please click on the link below to see the Due Date List.
https://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgwmghtk_2c48bvngs
FRIDAY-QOTD - If you know it, have you emailed me your babies gender (holleich@aol.com, please include DUE DATE, screen name, and gender)?
Have you picked your pediatrician? How did you decide on them? Did you interview?
Re: ~November Ninjas Friday Check In~
These things are pretty easy in a small town. There aren't a lot of choices and everyone knows everyone.
My doc is highly recommended, is the doctor for my best friend's girls and happens to be my best friend's neighbor. I also had his daughter in my history class.
Yep, we'll be using the same one we used for Layla.
When I was pregnant with her, I didn't do an interview or anything, I just asked around. There are a lot of kids in the family, so I knew about a few pedis and I also knew of one I did *NOT* want to use (he's the Dr for my boy cousins and they are always sick, always on something, allergic to everything, and always need breathing treatments. I always joke that they could have a broken arm and need breathing treatments).?
My OB at the time recommended the pedi I went with. I figured I'd see how he did with Layla.. b/c you can ask all the questions in the world, but when it comes down to it, it meant more to me to see how he interacted with her, treated her, etc.
Layla had to be in the hospital at 4 months and 5 months and he was amazing. He was great, he even told me I needed to go home and rest, but he said he knew I wouldn't.
So.. my advice is to interview away, but know you're not locked in and seeing how the Dr actually treats your child means more than the answers they have to the questions
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I am using the same pedi that my sister uses for her DD. She's also the same pedi that my OB reccomended. I am not interviewing her. I trust my sister's judgement as well as my OB.
We found a pediatrician a few months ago. I went online and googled pediatricians in my area. I found a couple forum sites where people recommended their pediatricians. There was one doctor near our home that was highly recommended among the forum sites. I called to see if she was taking new patients and she wasn't so I asked who she refers people to and was given the name of another doctor near us. We didn't do an interview. I figure if we don't like her we will know it after the first visit and can look for another pediatrician at that point.