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Disagreeing With Your Pediatrician
What to Do When Opinions Collide
By Amy Carey Bowman
Your pediatrician is an important part of your support network, especially during those first years of your child's life when parenting is new and uncertain. Questions about vaccinations and growth curves alone are enough to keep any mom and dad up at night.
Parents should feel confident handing over some of this concern to their child's doctor. But what happens when parents and pediatricians disagree? Should you follow your instincts or simply trust your doctor to know what's best for your child?
Meanwhile, Eriksen's daughter was thriving, above average in size and learning something new every day. Unhappy with the advice, Eriksen sought out another doctor.
When her son was born, Eriksen decided to "stretch the truth" and tell her new doctor that her son was eating solids even when he wasn't. "I didn't want to have a similar experience with my son that I had with my daughter, even though I now had a different doctor," says Eriksen.
Like Eriksen, Clare Gordiski, a mother of twin boys who lives in Ansonia, Conn., is not opposed to stretching the truth here and there when it comes to hot-button issues about her children's health. When her doctor asks about her sleeping arrangements, for example, Gordiski leaves out key details about her family bed situation. She says she lies a little because she would rather make those kinds of decisions, such as where her babies sleep, by herself.
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