Ep. 123: What Moms Need to Know About Pediatricians
The Liz Wheeler Show
Blaze Media
4.8 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So funny story, the first time that I took Lady Baby, who is now 14 months, the first time that I took |
| 0:05.1 | Lady Baby to the pediatrician after she was born, like, what, two, three days after she was born. |
| 0:10.0 | The first question that the doctor asked me when we got into the office was, do you have guns |
| 0:15.2 | in your home? Now, I wasn't surprised by this question. I had done my due diligence. I had |
| 0:18.9 | looked up what actually is the reason that you take your baby to the doctor to the pediatrician |
| 0:22.7 | just days after they're born. And so I was expecting this question. A lot of moms have experienced this. |
| 0:26.8 | This is standard of care in doctors offices. And but my reaction, when I was asked this question, |
| 0:31.8 | nonetheless, even though I was expecting, my reaction was WTS. Like, how is this possibly |
| 0:36.3 | pertinent to the care of a two to three day old baby? How is this possibly a question that should |
| 0:43.0 | take precedent over any number of other questions? And because I was expecting this, I had discussed |
| 0:48.1 | how to respond to this with my husband because I really don't think it's anybody's business, |
| 0:51.5 | how many or what kind of guns are in my home alone, whether or not there are firearms in our home. |
| 0:58.3 | I wanted to respond to the doctor. I wanted to just say, break in and see when they ask this question, |
| 1:04.7 | but my husband is more tactful than I am. He wouldn't let me answer. He wouldn't let me say that. |
| 1:10.3 | So I just declined to answer. I just said I declined to answer. But this happened. This story happened |
| 1:14.8 | two to three days after the baby was born last year. And this was after in the hospital. So we're |
| 1:21.2 | in the hospital for I think three days after the baby was born. And the pediatrician was actually a |
| 1:25.4 | neonatologist, I think, at the hospital was sent specifically to my room. Now I delivered with |
| 1:30.6 | midwives. So this wasn't this wasn't our OBGYN or anything. This neonatologist at the hospital |
| 1:35.3 | was sent specifically to our room because I declined the hepatitis B vaccine. I declined to give |
| 1:40.0 | that vaccine to my daughter on the day that she was born just hours after she was born because |
| 1:44.9 | why? Why would I give that vaccine to my daughter on the day she was born? Hepatitis being this, |
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