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Kaiser Moms

I called Kaiser just now to see whether there is any way I can meet up w/ their pediatricians just to talk to them and see whether we can find somebody we like.  Unfortunately, the person I talked to said we can't sign up with a pediatrician until the baby is born.  Is that true? All I really wanted to do was talk to a couple of drs.  We want to find a dr for baby G before she is actually born just in case we need a dr for her right away.  Not only that, I think we will be too busy to go around interviewing different drs after she is born.  I just it would be more convenient to do it now.  When did you actually get a pediatrician for your baby? How I wish we can do it now.

Thank you as always.

Re: Kaiser Moms

  • I don't have Kaiser but I would guess that the baby would have to be checked by a pedi before you guys leave the hospital.  Maybe they just have "any" pedi check her first then you can pick one afterwards? 
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  • Its weird to me that they won't let you interview pedi's before having the baby. I thought that was common. But I know Kaiser does things differently. Part of the reason I don't have them anymore.
  • FWIW, we interviewed pedi's before having Sarah, found one we love and he was off the day of her checkup before we left the hospital so his partner checked her out.  We've been seeing the one we interviewed and picked out since then.
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  • We never interviewed, I just went with the dr my SIL takes my nephews to because she highly recommended him. You can't assign the baby to a doctor before she's born - maybe that's what they thought you meant. They asked me who I wanted L to be assigned to before we left the hospital and we saw him for the first time at his 1 week appt. Another doc took care of him in the NICU.

  • The pedi we saw in the hospital was awesome. I really wanted to pick her. But she worked in Fontana so I couldn't. I knew I wanted Redlands. They just picked one for me. I figured if I didn't like her I would just move on to the next one. I ended upliking her though.

     

  • Thanks, ladies.  We really wanted to just interview the drs.  I could understand not being able to sign up w/ the dr now, but I thought they would at least let me meet the dr.  Oh, well... Kaiser- you gotta love'em and hate'em. 
  • imageklmbride05:

    The pedi we saw in the hospital was awesome. I really wanted to pick her. But she worked in Fontana so I couldn't. I knew I wanted Redlands. They just picked one for me. I figured if I didn't like her I would just move on to the next one. I ended upliking her though.

     

    You wouldn't happen to remember who was that dr in Fontana, wuld you? Thanks.

  • I don't have Kaiser but I really liked the pedi that checked Royce out in the hospital so I ended up asking her if she practiced at the hospital (Tiff rec-Thanks).  Her office was too far away so she recommended two docs that were closer and could help us. We chose to go with her rec and we've been happy.  I didn't even get around to interviewing pedi's I figured if it didn't work out we would switch or I'd just have him be seen by my primary care b/c he's a family practitioner anyway.
  • image4jewels:
    imageklmbride05:

    The pedi we saw in the hospital was awesome. I really wanted to pick her. But she worked in Fontana so I couldn't. I knew I wanted Redlands. They just picked one for me. I figured if I didn't like her I would just move on to the next one. I ended upliking her though.

     

    You wouldn't happen to remember who was that dr in Fontana, wuld you? Thanks.

    Not off the top of my head but I will look for it when I finish feeding Mary.

  • imageklmbride05:
    image4jewels:
    imageklmbride05:

    The pedi we saw in the hospital was awesome. I really wanted to pick her. But she worked in Fontana so I couldn't. I knew I wanted Redlands. They just picked one for me. I figured if I didn't like her I would just move on to the next one. I ended upliking her though.

     

    You wouldn't happen to remember who was that dr in Fontana, wuld you? Thanks.

    Not off the top of my head but I will look for it when I finish feeding Mary.

    Thanks, Kristy.

  • Love kp.org. :)

    It was JUDITH DAY MCLEOD NP. I hope you can get her even though she is an NP.

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