I’ve learned over the past ten years that a great pediatrician makes ALL the difference. A poor one, one you don’t trust, and a down-right indifferent one…well, it makes all of life miserable.

When my son was born I found a GREAT one…in Virginia. Six months later we moved. Found a ‘good-slightly indifferent’ one in Maryland, that was actually a GP. Then we found a great group of peds…but ended up moving a few months later again. Came here, found a LOUSY group of peds…then what I thought was a great ped, that became indifferent over the course of four years until I actually stopped trusting him.

Now we have a GREAT pediatrician. We, quite literally, found her by accident. We’d planned on going with a highly reccommended ped…that wasn’t affiliated with our local hospital. He reccommended a local ped for when K was born, and we’d transfer to him. Then, hubby’s work changed insurance, and we learned that the ped we wanted wasn’t in network, and didn’t take medicaid. So, when K was born, I asked for the ped I thought he’d reccommended, and got the wrong one. We were discharged, but K was still pretty jaundiced. When she didn’t clear up right away we called the ped we’d seen in the hospital, but it was her day off…so we went with her partner, just to get in.

Turns out her partner is the perfect pediatrician 😀 She took our insurance (the one we saw in the hospital didn’t), and medicaid…and was just the nicest person ever.

Since then she’s been incredible. She’s spotted the issues we sometimes haven’t wanted to see…she’s pushed when we needed pushed, and stepped back when we wanted to wait. She does things TODAY, not next week. When we call and say “The PT wants a referral to an ortho”, she calls me same day to find out details…and then calls the PT same day to get more details.

Having the pediatrician that we have now has meant finding the diagnoses for our kids that we wouldn’t have had this soon otherwise. For all that I complain about “hurry up and wait”…our ped is never the cause if she can help it! She’ll see me anytime I have questions…and has even called “just to check in” on the girls and see how they’re doing!!!!