Original post 8/2025
Started out great and went down hill through the first year with them. Our daughter was born in summer 2024 and they were great. We had chosen to do a delayed vaccine schedule so we could watch for reactions and they were great about it! However, when I started expressing concerns about my daughter not sleeping well, I initially was told start solids (at 4 months). When that didn't make a difference, I was told time and time again to just 'put her in her room and don't go back in for any reason till the morning' or 'she just needs to learn to sleep on her own. Let her cry it out if that's what it takes, cause it works'. Even though we had told our provider many times we didn't want to go this route, she respected that decision to a point, but wasn't willing, or able I'm not sure, to look into anything else dealing with sleep and sleep training. When I recently messaged a different provider to see if it could be a deficiency and to see if all the providers in the office were the cry it out bandwagon, the response I got was a book recommendation. After receiving this reply, we decided to switch Dr offices yesterday. When I went to get on my daughter's patient portal this morning, less than 24hrs later, to pay our outstanding bill, they had terminated my account. Thankfully I had a bill that had a QR code I could scan to reach the account and pay the bill. I would say that while the Drs are caring, they are a bit narrow minded in practices pertaining to the realm of sleep training, and if something is outside of what they recommend are not necessarily willing to explore other alternatives.
Updated 6/13/26:
This update took so long to do because I was so furious about what it contains i couldn't write it till now. As mentioned before, I asked about a deficiency causing my daughter's sleep issues, and it was ignored. However, the first thing new pediatricians office addressed was sleep apnea, and the second was her iron levels. We ended up at the pediatric sleep specialist and the specialist called the cry it out antiquated and ineffective. Huh...and then told me she wanted to check my daughter's iron panel: it was VERY LOW. When I told her what blackmons had said in response to me asking about a deficiency, she did a proverbial face-palm. Because my concerns were dismissed for over a year, my daughter's iron levels were not addressed when they should have been, and because of that, so much time, sleep, and joy were robbed from my family. On top of that, because her development was delayed, praise God only slightly, we were also robbed of any ability to travel any distance over an hour without her crying inconsolably in her carseat, and are still not able to travel to see family when we want to without both my husband and I in the car. I shutter to think what would have happened had we stayed with blackmons, and cry to think about where my daughter could be if they would have gotten off their antiquated methods. read more