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...love with my children's pediatrician. Yes, Dr. P. is many years my senior, I'm pretty sure he's married, and I generally prefer my men without beards. But there's just no resisting the man's charms. He never tires of discussing the intimate quirks, habits and bodily functions of my beloved offspring, listening raptly to harrowing tales of vomit and fever. He knows all the tricks to turn my shot-phobic toddler from shrieks to smiles. (A bouncy tennis ball and a Thomas the Train sticker usually do the job.) And he keeps on taking my phone...
...holidays, but if parents are really freaked out about having to visit grandparents when the baby is only 3 weeks old, I encourage them to have their in-laws come to them instead," says Dr. Marlene Coleman, author of Safe and Sound: Healthy Travel with Children and a pediatrician in practice for more than 30 years. Still, Coleman says, more and more parents seem game to brave the trip. Her advice: Be prepared--bring Infants' Tylenol, a first-aid kit and plenty of patience...
Dissenters (many of them failed Ferberizers) are often drawn to his night-and-day counterpart, Dr. William Sears, another best-selling pediatrician. Sears' ideology of "attachment parenting" has achieved cultlike status among earthy mamas who wield their babies in slings, eschew pacifiers, breastfeed on demand and, at night, curl up with their babies in their (preferably king-size) family bed. Co-sleeping adherents believe Mom and Dad should actively parent into the wee hours, if a sleepless baby so desires. Opponents accuse the Attachmentites of sacrificing adult independence to infant whims and ask what happens when the grownups finally decide...
...that you're on a great high because you just had a baby," she says. "Then someone comes in and says, 'Yeah, you had a baby, but ... ,' and how they say that but is critical." The Hebeins, who live in Evanston, Ill., will be forever grateful to their pediatrician, Arthur Dechovitz, for the way he delivered that but. "When Chris was born, parents were being told to institutionalize their children. We never had that kind of experience," Sheila says. "The doctor said, 'Here's your baby. Who do you think he looks like? The most important thing is that...
...moral lens to evaluate the kind of debates we're going to have in the 21st century. We have to accept that the general noise level will increase, but that doesn't matter. You can be a creationist at night and go to work in the morning as a pediatrician and save lives...