Once your baby arrives, you’ll need a pediatrician near you that you can trust and go to for both scheduled checkups as well as adhoc appointments when your child is sick.
As with many things in Berlin, finding a pediatrician is no easy feat. You’ll want to start looking for one before the baby arrives to see if your favorite ones are accepting new patients and how they want you to proceed.
This article was written in cooperation with Dr. Claude Grenzbach, who is a pediatrician in a private practice in Berlin-Mitte for pediatric and adolescent medicine. Her focus is on preventive medical care, pediatric pneumology and allergy. She offers her consultations in German, English and French.
How to Find a Pediatrician (Who Accepts New Patients)
Here’s a database of pediatricians in Berlin that is searchable by post code.
You may also want to check for doctors accepting new patients on booking platforms such as Doctolib or Jameda.
Note: You will likely hear the sentence “we’re not accepting new patients at the moment” quite a few times, which can be super frustrating. But don’t get disheartened. Keep trying.
When we couldn’t get into our preferred pediatrician, I kept calling them for every new check-up to see if they would take us and eventually (after about 6 months) they did! In the meantime, we went to another practice that did have capacity from birth.
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Good luck finding the right pediatrician for your family!
