New Pedi… no luck

We moved here about two months ago and are having a rough time finding a pediatrician that will take over the wonderful care we were receiving in our other state. Her current pediatrician is a good one, but not really following through with what he says he’s going to do and he is really busy.

So, We had an appointment with our new pediatrician… but I’m deffinitely not going back there. The previous one is way better than her, but he’s just too busy. But I’d rather stick with him than her. I think their scale was pretty off too because she weighed in at just barely 16 pounds, that would mean that she lost two pounds in two weeks. Maybe it’s right, but I won’t sweat over it right now. What strikes me as odd was that she didn’t even care that her weight was that low. Even if it was true that that was her weight, I would think that most pedi’s would be a little concerned because an 11 month old full term baby at 16 pounds is off the charts, isn’t it, or barely hanging on. She didn’t care about my concerns at all and was very unprofessional. She didn’t want to even bother with her records or looking over her labwork.

It was a total waist of time. My dad was even with us, and he was really surprised at the way she handled the visit. Totally blew us off like we were a bunch of freaks. We were telling her that she was having a very hard time gaining weight and that she basically doesn’t move on the scale. She’s stayed the same size for about three months now. When my brother came to visit last week, I said to him, “hasn’t Quinn gotten bigger?” And he said that she doesn’t look like she’s grown at all. The pediatrician didn’t even care. She basically told me that it was my fault about her sleep problems and said that she is still a baby and I shouldn’t let her cry so long at night… well, that’s why I came to you with that…. I don’t LET her cry for three hours, she hates sleep… I was asking for any remedies or anything to help her sleep. She told me that because Quinn is so low in weight I should be feeding her more and that I should be waking her up at night to eat. OKay everyone knows that at 11 months old, if the kid doesn’t wake up to eat, don’t wake her up. I told her that I wasn’t about to wake her up to eat. she needs her sleep. Besides… HELLO… She has reflux… If I gave her a bottle, she would be up half the night screaming. And she needs a FULL night’s sleep. And I told her that Quinn eats all the time and that’s what the problem is. Why is she losing weight??? Whatever… I”m not going back there.

We did get into GI though, but the appointment isn’t until February. They told me, however, that if I fax over her records from her last GI appointment, they would see if they could squeeze me in earlier. Hopefully I can get in earlier.

THIS was the exact reason why I didn’t want to leave in the first place, but I guess life hits you at the most horrible moments. I feel like we are starting from scratch as I watch my little girl dissapear into nothing… okay, so that was an exaggeration, but still, I just want some answers.

Her pediatrician from Texas, the wonderful one that i just wish I could clone or could have taken her with me, called me about a week after we got here and she told me that if I couldn’t find a pediatrician who would at least check into the condition, or if I couldn’t find one who would call her and talk with her about it, then I need to keep on looking. She was a wonderful pedi and cares so much for Quinn. I miss her.

So I guess the next thing is to continue to follow up with this pediatrician that is far too busy for her until I hear from word of mouth about a better pediatrician… or what do you guys think I should do? Keep searching?

-Sarah