Campbell Douglas J MD

I switched doctors after I had a baby because I wanted to go to a Family Practitioner. I grew up going to one and it was great. He knew what was going on with the whole family and was better able to care for us that way. I did not get what I was looking for from Dr. Campbell. He repeatedly made rude comments about my weight. I just had a baby a few weeks ago and already lost 20 pounds. He insisted that my blood work would show problems because of my weight. When my blood work came back fine, he was still nasty. As a breastfeeding mother, I should not be trying to lose weight too quickly. My milk supply actually started to dry up because I was losing weight too fast.
I can take the comments about me, but his ideas about the baby completely went against current science. If you are old school and want someone to support your mom-​centric ways that science has shown is not healthy for a baby, he is the doctor for you. He told me that the baby should sleep in his own room the day he comes home from the hospital. I assumed his concern was with SIDs and me rolling over onto the baby, so I assured him that the baby slept in his own crib in our room. He said the baby should sleep in his own room so I could get more sleep. He said that if the baby needed me, he would scream loud enough to wake me up from the other side of the house. All modern research says that screaming is the final sign of hunger and you should feed the baby before that. By sleeping in the room with my baby, I wake up when he starts making noises and I feed him and he and I go back to sleep in a matter of fifteen minutes or so from the point that he wakes me to t he point that we are both back in our beds sleeping. If I had to get up and run across the house to a screaming baby, it would take forever to get us both back to sleep.
He also suggested that I wear ear plugs so that I could only hear when the baby was really screaming. This is during the day and at night. I said, what about quiet sounds like if the baby started choking. He seemed to think that that was a chance I should take for my own comfort.
If you want to put a baby in their own room and use a baby monitor, fine. I do that during the day with him for naps. But I don’t trust anyone who thinks that a mother should put her own comfort over the safety of her baby.
He and I have very different ideas of what is appropriate parenting style. My baby isn’t an inconvenience to me. He is someone precious who I want to protect and care for.