Toll Gate Pediatrics

Let me start out by saying this. I give this place 2 stars because they are very good about taking you in and getting back to you. They made sure to call and check on my daughter, after she got out of the hospital for a condition. I really appreciated that. I’m sure there are many good doctors there. I just happened to, in my opinion, not get one. They gave us Dr. Dawson and I was happy, she was young and seemed nice. My baby was on nutramigan and she said ohhhh no nutramigan, try enfamil gentlease. OK, so I did. Second visit she said she needs a pacifier, and shoved her gloved pinky in my babys mouth… weird, but ok. So now my perfectly happy baby has a pacifier, whatever. Eventually the baby cries all day long and I go in. I see her practitioner, who says by the time we figure it out it will be gone, tells me to feed her less, and sends me away. The next day I look in her mouth and she has thrush. Now I’m a bit unhappy. So our last and final visit to doctor Dawson, was her 4 month appointment. I tell her the baby still cries a lot. So she asks me how I put her to sleep. I say I give her a bottle in her crib and give her a pacifier. This is a last resort, but I don’t like the cry it out method. She freaks out, oooohhh no you have to let her cry it out. Tries to make me feel like I’m bad for this. Then she says I shouldn’t give her her pacifier… um, really??? After that she says try the nutramigan. Now I want to bang my head into a wall. The final straw is when at the end, she says, I’m going to give her shots. I say I want to wait on them, because she’s already fussy… or at least wait until my husband can be here. She freaks out again. I dont care if he’s not here. absolutely not! she can’t come back if she doesn’t get her shots. So I left. No doctor should mom shame someone. Especially when all the opinions are hypocritical. I’ll take my baby elsewhere, where my parental rights are not stripped away. thank you!

I love Dr. Hunt, all of the nurses, and the office staff. Coming from a horrible pediatrician’s office in another town, I never knew how good it could be. Everyone is SO nice, and there’s no waiting around for an hour while your dr who thinks they’re better than you ignores you and plays on their computer chatting with people. Wish I had come here sooner, I just about cried the first time I left wishing I hadn’t put my kids through so many years elsewhere.