My wife just delivered our third son. The oldest was born in the hospital and the other two were born at home. With my views and practices on health outcomes, I get a lot of questions about what we do during and after pregnancy with our kids.
What is of interest is that as a parent, and if you’re one too, all you want is your child to be healthy and happy. The point of interest is that so many people have different ways of trying to achieve those outcomes, especially the healthy part. Here’s the basic journey we took with our 3 boys. As of yet, none have had an ear infection. None have taken an antibiotic. None has ever been given a fever reducer. None, except for our oldest, has ever seen a traditional doctor. The oldest went to two ‘well baby’ visits when we were fresh into the parenting thing.
We quickly realized that the sole purpose of the well visits was to give vaccines and since we were denying them, we were pretty confident in weighing and measuring our own children if we were really curious. If there was a problem we were concerned about, we wouldn’t hesitate to got to a traditional doc but that hasn’t been the case as of yet. I’m sure as they age, we’ll probably have a couple ER visits in our future.