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Counseling Home Visits for New Parents

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:32:47 +0000

Counseling Home Visits for New Parents – Sharon Epel, an experienced licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and mother of two, offers house calls for new parents. Sharon provides education, support, and counseling in the comfort of your home to help with the emotional and physical demands of caring for a new baby. Sessions can address bonding, adjustment, anxiety, and help identify post partum depression. Home visits may aid in increasing parents’ confidence and joy in their new roles and smooth the transition to becoming a family.

Unrushed Office Visits

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:28:15 +0000

Unrushed Office Visits – Our office visits are unrushed. This allows us to cultivate relationships with families and partner with parents in helping them raise healthy, happy children. We believe that spending quality time with our patients (approximately 30-45 minutes per visit) is the bedrock of an integrative medicine approach versus a traditional Western medicine approach in which 10 – 15 minutes is typical. We view each patient encounter is an opportunity to educate parents about preventive health and integrative care.

Routine Child Examinations

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:21:30 +0000

Routine Child Examinations – Whole kid care at GetzWell Pediatrics includes wellness visits at birth, 2 weeks, 1 month, 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, 9 months, 12 months, 15 months, 18 months, 21 months, 24 months, 30 months, 36 months and annually after age 3. Routine wellness exams allow us to monitor your child’s growth and development and to cultivate a partnership designed to optimize your child’s health within an integrative framework. Well child visits typically involve a thorough physical exam and history, updates to the family dynamic or social history, basic developmental screenings, immunizations, nutrition counseling, and plenty of time to discuss sleep, feeding and behavioral issues, constipation, eczema and other parental concerns.

Newborn House Calls

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:18:39 +0000

Newborn House Calls – Transitioning to your role as new parent can be both exciting and daunting. In order to help your family ease into its new rhythms, GetzWell Pediatrics offers newborn house calls* within 2 – 3 days of your child’s birth. House calls allow our board certified pediatricians to spend unhurried time (usually 75 minutes) to complete a thorough history and exam, assist with breastfeeding, answer questions and begin the education process that is at the heart of our integrative medicine approach, all in the comfort of your home.

*House Calls are only available in San Francisco.