Thursday, May 23, 2013

Where are Providers Heads At?:

Something that has been on my mind for a while now is where are the Providers heads at, I am not just talking about like family providers such as Building Healthy Families, Early Intervention or even Head Start/Early Head Start (if any of you even know what those are, some I know do not, but that is not what this post is about) this post is about the Pediatrician providers. I mean really where are there heads? I know it must not be on family but just on what the FDA, Government and Academy of Pediatrics says is right and wrong and healthy and not. Every Baby, Toddler, Child, Teenager, Adult, Humans altogether are different, no two babies or humans are 100% alike. The Academy of Pediatrics has this thing that the average baby or toddler for their age is this weight or this height, but really what they need to go by is not other children but family history and that child. So for instance I have two kids, one boy almost 4 and one girl almost 2. One was born with spinal bifida and the other born breach. One born in July the other in November. To totally separate kids, both from the same mother and same father. Now we look into the background of the parents a little, me (the mother) is thin with a high metabolism, hard to gain weight (is a few pounds underweight but not to where doctors are worried), has a thyroid condition and has a autoimmune hair disease called alopecia and has allergies and is 5'2". Pat (the father) is a little overweight (it seems to run in the family (which is not a bad thing but can have adverse affects on health), not a high metabolism, has a cousin born with a more serious spinal bifida disability, asthma runs in his family (though he does not have asthma), has allergies and is highly allergic to penicillin and bees and is 5'10". So now our kids get 50% of each of our biological dna (if I am correct on the term) that means the kids might or might not have allergies, might or might not be overweight or underweight. So now when my sons doctor said he was not on the chart with the average kids his age for weight and height they got worried I am on the short side where their father is not, I am on the thin side where their father is not, so now how can they say he's not where he should be? Everyone is different. It's the same for our daughter who falls off the chart gets on the chart falls off and now they are worried thats she's not fatter (their words not mine) Really, we can't go by other kids who are not in the family, who have no family history to my kids. For me it's hard to believe in the doctors these days, they have done so many things that are wrong and unprofessional. Especially with my kids. Like not getting them in for a diaper rash until I demanded that they see my child and that there was no way that this is just a little diaper rash and of course turned out to be more then just a typical diaper rash. I could write other things to that as well but that's not my point, I think the doctors need to stop listening to the American Academy of Pediatrics and get some common sense, and the AAP as there short term name is needs to get their heads out of the sand and gain some common sense too, Let's go by the true standards and not by what you think is the right standard by 100% different humans. Go by the 50% which is family, Because I can't stress enough how everyone is different but some have the 50/50 dna and everything else from family history.