Your child's first Dr appt?

The pediatrician at the hospital scheduled the appointment prior to releasing for first thing Monday morning. The office was packed with sick kids. We waited an hour before I left and found another pediatrician. I would not recommend scheduling first thing on a Monday or after a holiday.

@curious trust me it was really scary there was so much blood everywhere thank god the dr got it to stop. But because she had to put a couple of stitches in blind, his skin is gonna look a little funny. I will never let a "doctor" do a circumcision by hand again.

Scheduled as soon as I left the bed

I just had my sons first appointment. I left the hospital on a Thursday. Called a pediatrician Monday, and they made his appointment for Wednesday.

Scheduled while in the hospital after born, due to low birth weight we had to schedule it 2 days after discharge

My son was born with low blood sugar, they wanted to make sure he didn't lose too much weight (5lbs 6oz) and they wanted to check his jaundice levels as well. We were discharged on a Sunday, they made us an appointment with the paediatrician at the hospital for a Tuesday, and he had us call our family doctor to schedule a follow up/weight check for that Friday.

We called the day we got out of the hospital for his 2 week

At the hospital I was at, they make sure that you schedule an appointment. I had him on a Monday and his appointment was on that Friday.

Normally here if you already have a pediatrician lined up they come up to the hospital and do all the checks and schedule you for an appointment.

Since I have to deliver an hour+ away though I'm using whichever pediatrician is on call, and then will set up to see my actually doctor when we get released.

Our ped schedules it with us when they come to the hospital after the birth.

the day after she was born.

Both my boys were born on Wednesdays and we called Friday while at the hospital to schedule each appt for Monday.

Depends! My nurses suggested that my son saw his pediatrician the day after leaving the hospital, because his jaundice was increasing when we checked out. So I made an appointment while in the hospital. If he didn't have to see his pedi until he was one week old, then I would have scheduled it when we got home.

I called the day after I got home since it was a Monday and we were in the hospital all weekend.

I didn't. They scheduled it themselves and I ended up forgetting about it

I had lo on a Friday so didn't schedule till that Monday.

I called the day he was born and got an appointment when he was 3 days old. Thank god I did because he got a bad circumcision and if I had been the one instead of dr to take off the bandage, my little boy wouldn't be alive today....

Our pediatrician came to the hospital to see him and told us what day to schedule and she set it up for us.

I called and scheduled while in the hospital.

The pedi cane to check on him abs I scheduled it then

I called while I was in the hospital and we had his appointment within the week.

First appt was at a week old. I scheduled it the Monday since I got discharged on Sunday and the office wasn't open.

I called the day I was discharged from the hospital and her appointment was the next week.

My pediatrician came to my hospital room and scheduled it for the upcoming Monday, she was born on Thursday

I called the day I was being discharged and got an appointment for the following morning.

I called them from the hospital. It was within a week of being born.

I called the pediatrician's office and scheduled it the day after they were born.