switched pediatricians

[magicicada]

called the new ped and made an appt. called the old ped and cancelled the appt and asked about records transfer. i'm not sure why this is bothering me so much. they are nice people but they have sold their souls to the drug reps. i think it's nostalgia for when sylvia was teeny tiny as opposed to just being quite small.

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[gardenwaltz.livejournal.com]

at the original peds, we were given a huge tin of formula at the open house and the lactation consultant gave us a 4 pack of ready mix formula at the first office visit. or rather tried to, when we asked her where to get rid of some other formula we'd gotten she offered to give us just the book it was attached to. at the initial appt, sylvia was gaining weight. we had a bad night and sylvia started refusing to nurse and losing weight. at the second or third daily weigh-in, they started recommending supplementation. sylvia at that point was losing an oz a day, but never got below 90% of birthweight or became lethargic. she was always a very strong baby. to make a long story short, there were a few weeks of pumping and cup feeding and 28 oz of milk from the milkbank(to which i owe a great debt). i still sometimes think that if i had not spent so much time pumping and going to the peds (while recovering from a c-section), my supply would have increased much faster and none of the bullshit would have been necessary. in the end, sylvia figured it out. one day, she just started nursing like a champ and has been packing on the ozs and lbs ever since.

offense #2, they keep trying to get us to sign up for a trial for a rotavirus(messy, but fairly innocuous if you keep your eyes on baby's fluids)vaccine. the vaccine is a refinement of one which has a side effect of the occasional fatality!

so, rant over *clears throat*, yea, it's a good thing we switched peds.

Rotavirus...

[loucheroo.livejournal.com]

Rotavirus can definitely be fatal.... in fact, Amy and Ira's daughter lost a ton of weight and was hospitalized with it. Amy's just lucky they got her into the hospital so quickly.

HOWEVER....... to keep trying to talk you into a TRIAL of a vaccine, whose occasional side effect is fatality????? Sheesh, I can understand their asking you once. Hell, I suppose kids are needed for medical trials, though I'd never put my kid through one unless it was, god forbid, our only option..... but to keep trying to talk you into it once you'd made your feelings KNOWN? Fie on them... FIE, I say! (ok, so I'm in a bizarre mood, so sue me)

I'm glad you switched, is the basic point of this post..... they do sound like drug company whores....

Re: Rotavirus...

[h-postmortemus.livejournal.com]

The specific research being done was on a new vaccine for Rotavirus, to determine if they had eliminated the complications of the original vaccine developed a decade or so ago.

No, I do NOT want to take the risk of Sylvia developing FOLDS IN HER BOWELS due to a vaccine. I don't care if the surgery to fix it is free, that's just as much a risk damn it.

I have absolutely no problem with the initial asking if we wanted to join the test. But they kept mentioning it after we said no. I think it was because the head doctor at this pediatricians office was in charge of the particular trial for the area...