Tanner's new pediatrician is great! She walked in and immediately sat on the patient bed, Indian-style, and asked me to fill her in on everything. WOW! Where do I start? She vigorously took notes while I rambled on and asked questions here and there. They measured, took temp, checked his ears, eyes, throat, nose, privates, and umbilical hernia area. She showed me graphs on the computer and gave me info for his baby book. She commented that she'd never seen a baby book filled out so completely! HAHA! (Kodi, she hasn't seen yours!) In the beginning, she did NOT want to put Tanner on any antibiotics, which I fully supported. I had to give him a bottle while there, and she decided to squeeze in another patient. When she returned, she heard him breathing and heard him get quite congested. You could hear his breathing change and then he coughed a little bit. At least she got to see the symptoms...I was afraid he was going to appear better than he really is since he is actually worse in the evening. She changed her tune and wrote a script for an antibiotic. She also gave me two free samples of Axid, his reflux medicine, which are normally $40 per 15 mL. I was thrilled with that!
She also completely changed his diet! She decided that he needed to be on full breast milk bottles with the exception of the bedtime bottle. She does not want him on any milk-based products for a week. If I feel that he needs a formula bottle at bedtime, then I can use soy formula. I plan to steer clear of that though! Soy is not good fo9r boys!! I am to put one tablespoon of rice cereal in the 4 oz bottles to thicken them up and take him off of the Enfamil AR, for now at least. We are going to try this for one week and see how it affects his gas issue and his late-evening fussiness. He will no doubt need to eat more often since the breast milk won't hold him as long. But, she said that it is much more easily digested and since supply isn't an issue, that is the plan.
She gave me a few of his percentiles, even printed them out for his baby book, but it gets so confusing because when he is compared to the growth charts for his chronological age, he ranks quite low. Example: For length, he is 24 inches long and that is only in the 5th percentile. Meaning, 95% of kids his age are longer than he is! If you look at the corrected age, due to being 7 weeks early, then he will rank out much better. She said we would go over all of that at his 4 month appointment on the 24th of this month. I am so very pleased that she is the type to cover everything I want to cover before she leaves the room. She smiled a lot and was very down to earth , but got down to business as well. She didn't put thing sin lay terms everytime and I appreciated that due to my degrees and background. She would say, "Well since you're a science teacher, I'll explain it like this..." I love that! I feel very good about this and think it is a much better fit for my personality and Tanner's quality care.
Tanner's new pediatrician is great! She walked in and immediately sat on the patient bed, Indian-style, and asked me to fill her in on everything. WOW! Where do I start? She vigorously took notes while I rambled on and asked questions here and there. They measured, took temp, checked his ears, eyes, throat, nose, privates, and umbilical hernia area. She showed me graphs on the computer and gave me info for his baby book. She commented that she'd never seen a baby book filled out so completely! HAHA! (Kodi, she hasn't seen yours!) In the beginning, she did NOT want to put Tanner on any antibiotics, which I fully supported. I had to give him a bottle while there, and she decided to squeeze in another patient. When she returned, she heard him breathing and heard him get quite congested. You could hear his breathing change and then he coughed a little bit. At least she got to see the symptoms...I was afraid he was going to appear better than he really is since he is actually worse in the evening. She changed her tune and wrote a script for an antibiotic. She also gave me two free samples of Axid, his reflux medicine, which are normally $40 per 15 mL. I was thrilled with that!
She also completely changed his diet! She decided that he needed to be on full breast milk bottles with the exception of the bedtime bottle. She does not want him on any milk-based products for a week. If I feel that he needs a formula bottle at bedtime, then I can use soy formula. I plan to steer clear of that though! Soy is not good fo9r boys!! I am to put one tablespoon of rice cereal in the 4 oz bottles to thicken them up and take him off of the Enfamil AR, for now at least. We are going to try this for one week and see how it affects his gas issue and his late-evening fussiness. He will no doubt need to eat more often since the breast milk won't hold him as long. But, she said that it is much more easily digested and since supply isn't an issue, that is the plan.
She gave me a few of his percentiles, even printed them out for his baby book, but it gets so confusing because when he is compared to the growth charts for his chronological age, he ranks quite low. Example: For length, he is 24 inches long and that is only in the 5th percentile. Meaning, 95% of kids his age are longer than he is! If you look at the corrected age, due to being 7 weeks early, then he will rank out much better. She said we would go over all of that at his 4 month appointment on the 24th of this month. I am so very pleased that she is the type to cover everything I want to cover before she leaves the room. She smiled a lot and was very down to earth , but got down to business as well. She didn't put thing sin lay terms everytime and I appreciated that due to my degrees and background. She would say, "Well since you're a science teacher, I'll explain it like this..." I love that! I feel very good about this and think it is a much better fit for my personality and Tanner's quality care.
Yay! So glad that the new pediatrician is a better fit. That is such an important person in you and Tanner's life, so it's good that it worked out well. I will be anxious to hear how the diet changes go.
ReplyDeleteThat is so good. I know what you mean about the "sly terms". I am still playing around with seeing different pediatricians. I want one that is playful and sweet to Preston, but doesn't sugar-coat things when they explain stuff to me. So far, they seem to do that. And I understand because they see a lot of new moms who freak out about anything, but I think I actually handle things pretty well. So anyway my whole point was I understand. lol. :)
ReplyDeleteYou are so on top of everything too. I believe you said once before that you were a type A personality and I can totally see that with how you handle his appointments and things. I, on the other hand, still haven't even filled out his babybook stuff. And I'm very laid back. What personality type am I? LOL Type D? J/K. I know in the "color" personality tests, I am a "blue".
So glad you love your new doctor! Tanner is sooooo cute!!!!
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh...when I saw the picture pop up of tanner's new doctor I silently sheered for you, it's doctor Moore right? She was my boys pediatrician until two years ago when we had to switch to cox(yuck) anyway we are now able to switch back to her Yeah!
ReplyDeleteShe is the best...both of my boys were hospitalized at diff time when they were little and She was so great. Our oldest had a really serious illness when he was 5 and she was the one who after a very long day and many docs diagnoised it immediately. She actually gave us her home number when we were going through this. I LOVE her! I know you will be happy with the switch. If that isn't her in the picture this is going to sound really strange.
Thank you so much guys! It is Dr. Moore, Laura, and that is sooo good to hear!! Thanks for the good news!
ReplyDeleteJenni, I am going to have to look into the color personalities!! I have no idea what color I am!