Hi there, I have two different expieriences, my first son was born at a private hospital and they generally have to go along with it I beleive (in Perth anyway) I asked my Ob and he arranged it all for me, he had to be checked by the paed who was looking after him in the hospital and it was done with the plastibell method (loved it BTW)

With my second son, he wasn't gaining weight properly and he was not authorised as healthy by the paed to get it done, so we had to cancel it. The health nurse put me onto a local doctor who did it the traditional way and we got Parker done at 6 weeks.


Now if I had the choice, I would get the plastibell method done, the only doctor who did it in Perth now doesn't do it, and my husband and I have already decided that if we have another son, I will fly to Brisbane to get it done, presumable by the doctor everyone in this thread is talking about.

If you google it, you can ring them and they will give you a list of doctors in your state that does their method, I did this for my SIL when she was getting her son done, and that is how I found out the doctor in WA does not do it anymore.

The reason I would get the plastibell, was the expierience, they put a cream on him and it was over in about 10 minutes they bought him back and he didn't even cry. The baby who had it before did, but Cooper didn't. It fell off like a week later, but no bleeding or anything. Parker though had to have a bandage on for 3 days and had to bathe it off and he cried a lot both during the procedure and when taking the bandage off.

He has also had problems with adhesion and we had to at one stage put a cortisone cream on around the head every night and pull back the skin because it had adhered back on. It wasn't the nicest, but it worked.