Jameson's First unwanted Doctor Visit

I was hoping to write more about our Home Birth experience, but complications came up today that I would really like to share with you while they are fresh in my mind.

Most women that have chosen Home Birth do not chose to have their son's circumcised nor do they chose to have their child immunized. When it comes to circumcision I really have no preference one way or another, so I had left it to Walter to decide. I did not want him to have to go through the pain, but we felt it would be best to have him circumcised. As far as immunizations go... I always felt that Doctors do not give families a choice of what shots to give their children and what shots to not give their children. They also do not explain in detail what shots are important and what shots are still going through trial periods. I have also had experiences with the girls where they received their shots then ended up having reactions to the shots, but the Doctors would not admit the reactions were caused by the shots. This time around after learning more about immunizations, becoming a more confident Mother, and learning my rights to have my children immunized or not...we decided to be picky about what shots we want Jameson to receive. By picky i mean. find out more information and be prepared before Jameson is suppose to receive his shots. I understand there are some shots out there that are important for him to receive.

So... we planned ahead the Dr. Bowen would do Jameson's curcumsion. after making the appointment earlier this week we found out that it was going to cost $350 out of pocket for the procedure to be done because Dr. Bowen does not except our insurance. Considering we are moving on Tuesday and have had more than a few surprise cost these past couple weeks, we could not afford to have another surprise cost. So we were told to call his pediatrician. at this point we are still taking children to the the idiots at EASTGATE PEDIATRICS. We had planned on moving them to ESD as soon as we get our insurance changed, and my hope was to get that done as soon as possible.

Walter called Eastgate Peds Wednesday to find out what we needed to do. The Doctor was friendly and said we needed to get a referral for us to go to Children's to have the procedure done and she would have to call us back Thursday (today) to get us set up for that. Today we received a phone call from the office with this ridiculous Doctor freaking out on us. she said we needed to take him straight to the hospital to have him examined. She said her and the other doctors have never seen a baby from a Home Birth and she strongly disagreed with it. at this time Walter of course was very upset. So the mean lady hung up with Walter and had another lady call back. The next lady said we had to bring him in immediately today to have an exam (even though he had already had his infant exam with Sora) So we had to drag myself and Jameson out for his first outing to the Doctors.

After making sure we looked good for our mug shots (thinking we were going to get arrested) we arrived at the office and I can not even expres to you how nasty this office is. It was not like that when we first started taking the girls there, but now after the two half way decent doctors that the girls had left the office has gone to heck. It so bad that if I have to take one of the girls with me when the other is sick, they end up coming home with a new sickness that they picked up from the office! The chairs are dirty, the floor looks filthy from vomit or something spilled all over it, the people are very dirty, and they have played the same Toys Story movie for almost 4 months! Walter and I sat very paranoid in the waiting room. I kept the diaper bag on my lap and Walter protected Jameson in the car seat for dear life. When Walter picked up a magazine I wouldn't let him touch me until he washed his hands. you have to understand in my opinion I felt I did everything I could perfectly to make sure Jameson was as healthy as he could be, but now I am sitting in this germ infested room when he is only 6 days old because this Doctor office is complete idiots!!!

We went back to see the Doctor, she was surprisingly nice. It was a new Doctor that I had never met. After the exam she of course said that he looked great. She also told us that she will give us the referral, but it will take a few days and they probably won't be able to get us in for another month. She said that they will want to wait until he is 6 months old and put him to sleep to have the procedure done! Yeah so we were pretty upset when we left.

Walter immediately called Children's and every other Doctor you could think of and EVERYONE said No we can not help you. They all thought we were nuts! so to make a long story short Walter called for a few hours straight and finally got to a man in pediatric surgery that said they will do the procedure Tuesday with no trouble. AMEN! He is such a good Daddy! I am so happy that he was tghere with me today and that I don'y have to fight with all these people on my own. It also makes me sad that so many people are so ignorant about Home birth, but they choose to voice their opinion like they know what they are talking about.