Rebecca: What Colic's Really Like
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Wondertime: What have your experiences with her doctors been like?
Very helpful. Our doctor isn't a pediatrician. He's a family practice doctor. He has three boys, and he's been through everything that I've been through, not just with Jill but with Maxwell. He's very quick to try to find remedies, "Let's try this and let's try that," as opposed to saying "Hey, just wait it out." He's been very, very helpful.
The doctor that was assigned to us in the hospital when we had Jill is a pediatrician in the practice where our doctor is. He was very conservative. We thought Jill had a milk allergy, so I went from breastfeeding her to putting her on hypoallergenic formula, because we had gone through that with Maxwell with the milk allergy. We didn't want to go five, six, seven weeks trying to be a hero by breastfeeding, so we switched her to Nutramigen, and he was very down on that.
And I'm like, no, you know what, I'm going back to my family practice doctor because this guy [the pediatrician] has a 3-month old baby that's perfect. She sleeps, she doesn't cry, she doesn't have any issues. He just doesn't get it. He's book smart, but he just doesn't understand reality, in my opinion.
So I went back to our family practice doctor. And he said it could be from acid reflux, it could be the colic and the acid reflux. We tried different things, he was very helpful, and Dr. Vartabedian was very helpful as well. Very energetic, very "Let's try to correct this, let's see what we can do."
When we were at the Wondertime photo shoot, Dr. Vartabedian gave me his business card with his cell phone number on it. He gave it to other mothers at the photo shoot as well. I thought that was incredible, because a doctor has never done that for us before. And I did, I called him on a Monday morning. I said, "I hate to bother you." And he said, "It's no problem, that's why I gave you my number."
So the doctors that I've experienced were great, aside from the pediatrician, and that wasn't so much a bad experience. Like I said, he has a perfect daughter right now that doesn't experience any issues that we've experienced, and was just a little too conservative for us.
And I guarantee that had I gone to him about even the milk allergy, that he would've said, "Oh, no, no, no, no, let's just keep going and keep going and keep going, or the acid reflux, no, no, let's not put her on medication."
I'm very, very happy with our family practice doctor and Dr. Vartabedian. So, we've had some good experiences.
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