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We are your full service provider for all issues related to your newborn.  We are typically notified by your hospital (we have admitting privileges at University Hospitals MacDonald Hospital for Women and Hillcrest Hospital of the Cleveland Clinic Hospital System) upon the delivery of your child and will arrive the following morning to examine your child in your presence and begin the relationship that we both hope will last more than two decades.

We care as much about the “Art of Parenting” as we do about the “Science of Parenting”.  As such, we will spend time introducing you to your child, pointing out the normal as well as the unusual characteristics and give you the assurance that “you can do it” when you take your child home.  But we will also help you make the transition from being a “couple” to being a “set of parents”.  We will help you identify a set of appropriate expectations and help give you the perspective that is often lacking in the first few months of life.  Moreover, we will provide you with the skills necessary to transform your dreams into reality, helping you become the mother and father that you have always wanted to be.

When there is a medical emergency at the time of delivery or in the first few days, we will be notified by the medical staff and will engage the appropriate services and specialists to insure that your child receives outstanding care.  We will be in touch with you every step of the way to insure that you are kept in the loop on all matters pertaining to your child.

In keeping with the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics, we will typically see breastfeeding babies at 2-3 days of life.  We have outstanding lactation consultants on staff in the office to provide nursing mothers with the confidence as well as the experience necessary to successfully breastfeed their child.  And we will provide you access to Ann Witt, MD IBCLC, and Breastfeeding Medicine of Northeast Ohio, the only local medical professional with experience in the medical challenges of breastfeeding (supply, pain, infection etc).

We typically see children again a week later (or earlier if necessary) and then follow up at 2 months for the beginning of the immunization series.