Baby Size: 3 and a half pounds ish
Mama Size: Still at 21.5 pounds. I have been sick and stressed this week and so actually lost some weight. My stomach continues to grow--38 inches now!
Symptoms: Having a hard time falling asleep but usually when I do, I stay asleep except for maybe one bathroom trip. Although last night I had to get up four times so that.....was just lovely. I am loving the weekends because when my alarm doesn't wake me up, I can sleep in until 10. Pelvic pain has now been joined by hip and back pain. Gotta love the third trimester.
Other updates: The second childbirth class was hard to sit through but three hours on a hard chair=major discomfort. Peter learned some coaching techniques but I made it difficult because I kept laughing which would make him laugh. We just fail at relaxing.
Nursery is so close to being done. We set up the dresser and cleaned out the closet and organized the tons of baby stuff we already have. I want a bookshelf and some wall shelves and a few other odds and ends in there but as Peter put it, the baby doesn't care whether I have spackled the crown molding.
Question of the Week: When did you choose a pediatrician, or did you choose a family practitioner instead? Someone told me I'd need one before giving birth but my ob told me I didn't. Hmm...
On Pinterest, they have "rain gutter book shelves" and it was actually pretty cute!!! :) But I think it'd need to match the decor.
ReplyDeleteI chose a family doctor for Alli. I realy trusted her because she had never failed me. Except she was hard to get in with, and when your kid is sick, you want her seen. I dealt with it, but got some questionable advise (advice?) from the NP who I always got stuck with. Loved her, but not the greatest stuff. After almost two years, I switched to a pediatrician...now, I LOOOOVE her pediatrician and 10000% trust him. He is compatible with US and what I want...I'm not big on medicating unless necessary...I don't want to do treatments unless they are necessary...etc, etc. I'm in between the "let's medicate for a broken nail" and "NEVER on my child". He gets that and works with me on it. And he seems to truly care.
You can't go to him.
That being said, the reason I switched was because as much as I loved my family doc FOR ME, I wanted someone who specialized in kids and see lots of them all the time instead of a few here and there. I feel some of the things Dr. Ellis has come across and told me were "normal" and explained different times he's seen then, this lady would have NEVER seen or would have seen rarely. Dr. Ellis is constantly exposed to things that I didn't realize were common.
After saying all that, I am a firm believer in the parent doing the right thing for the child...and it's all going to depend on what YOU feel is best. Heck, you might have a family doctor that meets all that criteria and is awesome! That was just MY personal experience and MY reasoning behind it.
Now, I'm trying to figure out how to change my birth cerfiticate so Dr. Ellis will treat me too.
Oh wait...he did one time when I swore there was a spider in my ear. :)
I called to get my baby registered with the pediatrician I want in town. I could tell the receptionist was trying not to laugh, but I guess in small towns like mine you just scheduled the baby's doctor appointments after delivery...not before. Ah, so much for trying to be proactive.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure you want to have a doctor lined up before birth . . . that's been my experience both times anyway. With Katie, I used a family doctor, but now I'm using a pediatrician. Katie had her first visit with the pediatrician just last week and already I'm loving the difference. The staff in my family doctor office always made such a big deal of Katie, which was fun, but that was a sign that they just weren't used to seeing as many kids and they tended to get way more stressed out by her crying and being nervous which stressed me out a ton. The pediatrician's office was just like, no biggie, we're used to it. Plus, Katie got stickers afterward which made a huge difference in how she processed the visit afterward. I also felt like my family doctor (who was a middle-aged male with grown kids) was sometimes condescending toward my first-time mom want to play it safe attitude, while the younger female pediatrician I met with was like, hey, I totally get you, it's ok to want to check things out. So maybe my experience is completely confounded by age/generation and gender, but either way, I'm happy so far to have made the switch.
ReplyDeleteI debated about the pediatrician vs. the family doc, and we opted for a pediatrician. Like Lori said above, we liked knowing that we were going to someone who had seen a lot of kids. he is toward the end of his career, so he is knowledgeable, really chill, and has seen it all, basically. We like that, and he was very sweet with Addison. I remember that in the hospital they did ask me if we had a pediatrician already because they like to have the ped come check the baby before release. We did, and so it worked out. But my sense was that if we hadn't another doctor on staff at the hospital would have checked her, or another ped who was visiting the hospital.
ReplyDeleteI found a pediatrician prior to giving birth, and they simply said to call them once the baby was born. You can check out the doctors online (I've been doing that here recently) to see what their popularity rate is (wait time, behavior towards patients, etc.). I think it's www.healthgrades.com...
ReplyDeleteIf you don't find one prior, there is a pediatrician on-call at the hospital (or, at least, there was at mine...).