The Baby Blues...

I know a crazy title... but the baby has the blues and rightfully so. We believe he has reflux and while baby has the blues, Mama has the reds... yep the angry reds not at baby of course but at the horrible pediatrician. Let me back up a bit.. once upon a time 5 years ago to be exact we met a wonderful pediatrician which we visited every time Matthew had a vaccination appointment and then when Jonathan was born we went and saw her as well. She was great! Personable, caring, excellent bedside manner... then without notice she left (insert the screaming mama face!!!) Yep I was distraught, I mean who was going to be taking care of our new bundle of joy! Enter new doctor... there were only 2 to pick from so I went with the lady pediatrician since I had met the other doctor and he was no good at his bedside manner whatsoever! This doctor that we currently have now is no gem either. The first appointment with Dawson she was in and out and no friendly banter took place. The second time around she was a bit better but still not really listening to the concerns I had about Dawson. Yep by this time we were noticing that some things were not right. The lack of bowel movements and constant fussiness was just not something that to us was "normal". The pediatrician just said it was colic... fine we took that response and then me the googler nerd that I am, began researching the symptoms that I was noticing with Dawson and everything pointed to reflux. Finally after one car ride of 30 minutes of non stop crying (and I mean the crying where the child is gasping for air and you can tell he is in some serious pain) I called to talk to her and of course no surprise here they had me talk to a nurse and the doctor would call back later only to hear that it sounded like he had colic which my response was no it was something else... well they gave me an appointment and she prescribed meds and changed his formula and had me call on Monday which was nonsense since once again she did not return the call and had her nurse instead tell me to continue with what I was doing... well she is done with us... Good bye to her because I am DONE!!! My poor baby is in pain and I can't do anything about it. My other kiddos on the other hand are suffering not because of the crying but because now they have 2 cranky parents that are losing their patience all too quickly and without realizing it at times taking it out on them which is completely unfair. So I am on a search for a new pediatrician, one that will listen to the problem and make sense of it. One who will help get to the bottom of it and bring some relief to our baby. At this point we are willing to do pretty much anything to keep him happy. So we will see what happens. Keep us in your prayers we need them! Despite all of this that is going on Homeschooling is going great and Matthew is loving it! I will update you on that once our this week (our second week) is over!