Dr. McGraw - Town and Country Pediatric Associates

This is the Baby's pediatrician, Dr. McGraw with Town and Country Pediatric Associates.



Your baby's pediatrician should be selected in the 8th month of pregnancy, so if you deliver early, you are prepared. It is recommended that you get some referrals from friends or your OB and then interview the top candidates. That sounds a little time consuming, so we figured we would first go see a doctor that received a raving recommendation from a friend who has two daughters. We set up a consultation with her and found her to be relaxed, with a good sense of humor, and experienced with two kids of her own. She has hospital privileges at Texas Children's Hospital which we couldn't be more thrilled about. We decided immediately that we wanted her to be the kid's pediatrician.

You will want to come to the consultation armed with some basic questions. Most questions revolve around convenience, access, and responsiveness. You are encouraged to see if the physician's parenting philosophies are aligned with your own. If you are like we are and don't have any parenting philosophies yet, you will have to omit or wing this portion of the interview.

If you could do this kind of consultation with all your doctors what a different medical community we would have!

Baby's first appointment with Dr. McGraw will be 2-3 days after he is born. She won't see him at the hospital where I deliver because she doesn't have privileges there, but he will be seen by neonatologists they have on staff after delivery. After that I think they have go to the doctor once a week until they turn three.