I can tell you when patients leave the doctors office that I work for the doctor needs to know why you are leaving. It may help another individual who has to deal with her in the future. It sounds like she is telling you how to raise Carter based on HER experience as a parent and how she has raised her child, not what she learned in med school. She definitely does not have a good bedside manner in my opinion. I would have left crying for sure! No doctor should ever be that way with a patient or parent. You should never feel like you need keep information from a doctor just because of fear of getting lectured or reprimanded. Something very important may need to be told or missed.
I am so happy you are so confident in the way Carter is being raised. The doctor would have probably made me doubt myself.
I hope you find a doctor you can create a doctor/patient relationship with soon. There are more doctors out there who really care and are not so judgmental.
Personally, I think you are wonderful mother and have already been through a lot. Carter is such a sweet, healthy, bundle of joy!!!!!! You can tell that he is loved and well taken care of. Books, TV, etc cannot tell you how to raise a child it is advice ONLY! I really believe that Mother intuition is a reliable source!
Good luck search for that new ped doc.
Love,
Julie