Children have never been to a doctor…
So we had our babies at home with a certified nurse midwife, who is also an RN. She did all the initial check ups on our babies. Our oldest did start vaccines and go to a pediatrician a few times before they kicked us out because we wanted to slow the vaccine schedule and educate ourselves on each one first before deciding. We’re not antivax, just don’t think an infant needs 85 vaccines.
Our daughter was born and then the pandemic hit. So she has really never seen a doctor. We fell on really hard financial times and so yeah, just it never happened. We don’t have insurance and checkups just fell behind.
Now, to be clear, they’ve never needed to go to a doctor. The only times they’ve ever needed medical intervention was actually mouth related and we went to a dentist for those things. They’ve never been injured and they’ve never had a sickness worse than a cold that lasted 2-4 days.
Well finally I got us out of the financial hole and I really want to get my kids into regular check ups and all of that but I’m terrified when we go and we’re like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ “sorry these are it for our records, sorry we were poor and could only accommodate emergencies” that they’re going to call CPS on us.
So yeah my son is 7 and stopped going for check ups at 2 and my daughter is 6 and has literally never been inside a doctors office.
Again, if they had ever needed it I would’ve broken my back to make it happen. But they’re just ridiculously healthy. They get sick very seldomly. Very robust kids. They eat lots of food and are healthy.
I have ocd so my brain is struggling with this