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I would call and confirm that he'll be able to be your pediatrician (i..e. taking new patients) and that he's in-network (if that's important), but past that, I think the hospital just needs to know who it is when you in and deliver.

I interviewed a pedi a few weeks ago, and at the end asked her if she'd be McBebe's pedi, and she said that, and that was it. She told me when I go in to deliver to have her name and office number ready because our hospital will ask for it.

Our hospital has the pediatrician/baby's doctor name/contact as part of the admissions paperwork so definitely have this on hand when you go in.

When you call you might want to ask if he has hospital privileges where you will be delivering; if so he will probably be able to do the first exams on the baby, if not then the hospital pedi can do it and fax the results to your pedi. Our pedi office wouldn't schedule the first appt until after the baby was born so I think I may have called to schedule her first appt while I was still in the hospital (if not then I called the first business day after we got home). It is a group office so I just saw whoever was available until I found someone we liked.

DH and I asked several people for referrals (friends with kids, DH's brother, DH's primary doc) and since I wanted a pediatrician and not just a family doctor we called the office that had the most recommend

i asked around for referrals and just called and made sure the dr took new patients and insurance. i didn't make it to the interview process because LO came early but the day LO was born the nurse asked who we'll be using for peds and the dr showed up the same day.