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s/o pediatrician recs, how early?
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How early are we 'supposed' to look for one? I'm glad jaybird requested some recs. I hadn't even thought to look for one!
L&M and jenbrian: I just called and scheduled a GTKY appt with Dr. Henning based off of your referrals!
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Re: s/o pediatrician recs, how early?
My husband and I's Primary Care Physician's specialty is "Family Medicine" so we decided to have DD see her rather than find a seperate pediatrician.
I really like that our entire family sees the same doctor. She sees my parents, my sister and her kids too, the two youngest of which she has seen since birth. Right after I had DD she gave my DH her personal cell phone number and told him all the signs of post-partum depression. She told him that if he had any concerns call her on her personal cell any time.
Good Luck finding a doctor!
I'm also with PP. I met with Dr. Lomonico after a rec and absolutely loved him. He's been great so far and deals with my FTM crazy anxiety beautifully. We had been having problems with Anderson spitting up a lot and crying for hours. I called the office and Dr. Lomonico was able to see us the same day. I feel really good about the care A is getting.
I think this whole "interview" pediatricians is sort of Bump phenomenon. If you have really specific parenting ideas/philosophy before you even have your kid, it probably makes sense to check that your philosophies coalesce mostly w/ the ped, but you should be able to get alot of that information from the doctor's website or material they send you.
I picked out a few peds that sounded good based on recs from here, location and insurance coverage. We went to a New Parent Orienation meeting at ~35 weeks and they went over office hours, vaccination schedules and philosphy, what to expect w/ newborns/when to call, what to have at home, what to expect when the do the hospital well visit/check. I liked the nurses and doctors who spoke so that was pretty much it for me.
If I'd been unhappy w/ some aspect of DD's care after she was born, I probably would have had a better idea of what I was looking for and I could see "interviewing" doctors then or at least having specific concerns or questions.
Hmm-I never really thought of it that way. I just thought it was more of a first time anxious mom thing since most of my mama friends IRL did the same.
Oh and we interviewed DD's pedi when I was around 30ish weeks I think.
My practice has an interview day, a couple times a month, where you go with a group of other new moms and sit down with one of the doctors, they talk about the practice, their beliefs and stances on things such as vaccines/autism, they pass out a bunch of information in a little folder, and you can ask any questions you want-- about the practice, about making appointments, about baby care, anything. (box hill pediatrics in abingdon)
ETA: I went in the middle of my third tri because I'm a procrastinator
Ditto Kathryn and Mrs.Remy.
I missed all of the meet & greet's and ended up getting a special interview. I found out at a 34wk appointment that there was the potential that I *could* be induced. At week 35, I was going to definitely be induced. I was 35.5 weeks when I got my pedi set up
To be fair though, I was pregnant over xmas and ended up giving birth in January...