Whole pediatric medicine
An enhanced understanding of pediatric healthcare: natural, complementary and integrating, applied to conventional classical and whole pediatric care and treatment. The aim is children who feel better and live better.
Services and approach
Everything a family needs from a primary pediatrician, from the first hospital visit after birth through the teenage years, with an integrative perspective layered on top.
What we do
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Everyday care
The visits that make up most of childhood: growth tracked over time, questions answered before they become worries.
- Preventive and comprehensive pediatric primary care, birth through age 20
- Well visits at every age, from the first weeks through the teenage years
- Periodic check-ups so growth and development are followed over time
- School, camp and sports physicals
- WIC forms
- Vaccinations and immunizations, on a schedule agreed with you
Newborns and babies
Care starts in the hospital, on the day your baby is born, and carries on in the office.
- Daily hospital visits to newborn patients, from birth until discharge
- Newborn and infant well visits in the office
- Full support for breastfeeding, with guidance from a qualified registered nurse
- Complementary and individualised prenatal visits and parent education
- Nutrition guidance for infants
When your child is sick
Acute care in the office, and someone who knows your child if the hospital becomes necessary.
- Office visits for acute illness
- Admission to hospital for sick children, arranged by Dr. Yucel
- Inpatient follow-up while your child is admitted
- After-hours calls directed to Dr. Yucel's cell phone
- Antibiotics and other medications avoided unless genuinely necessary
Prevention and nutrition
The part of the practice that gives it its name: what your child eats, breathes and lives around.
- Nutrition guidance that supports the body's own natural healing and wellness
- Parent education on avoiding artificial colors, flavors and preservatives in food
- Reducing exposure to pesticides, plastics and plastic-sourced chemicals
- Air pollutants, indoor air quality and secondhand smoke
- Water purity and avoiding heavy metals
- Building a healthy immune system
Our approach
How care works here
Natural Pediatrics is a conventional pediatric practice with a second layer on top of it. Classical medicine is the foundation. Nutrition, prevention and the child's environment are treated as part of the same conversation.
Integrative and complementary care
Compassionate and individualised care, partnering with parents to bring the best options from classical traditional pediatrics together with integrative and complementary, holistic medicine.
Preventive medicine
Information and choices about natural care, healing for children, preventive medicine, some of the causes of poor health in children, and building a healthy immune system.
Nutrition and wellness
Guidance for infants, children and adolescents on nutrition that supports the body's own natural healing.
Environmental health
Reducing everyday exposures: pesticides, plastics and plastic-sourced chemicals, air pollutants, indoor air quality, secondhand smoke, water purity and heavy metals.
Parent partnership
Dr. Yucel works with parents rather than around them. He wants your questions, including the uncomfortable ones.
Breastfeeding
Support and guidance for nursing mothers
Natural Pediatrics is fully supportive of breastfeeding and encourages it for all mothers and babies.
The office has a qualified registered nurse who, along with Dr. Yucel, provides guidance, counseling and consulting for mothers who are nursing or planning to.
What the support covers
- Guidance and counseling from a qualified registered nurse
- Consultation with Dr. Yucel alongside your baby's regular visits
- Questions about feeding raised at any well visit
- Nutrition guidance for mother and baby
House rules
What this office steers children away from
Part of the practice's parent education is a short list of things Dr. Yucel asks families to avoid in food and in the home.
- Artificial colors
- Artificial flavors
- Artificial preservatives
- Artificial sweeteners
- High fructose corn syrup
- Refined carbs
- Sodium nitrite
- Hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated fats and oils
- GMO
This is the practice's own stated position on diet and household exposures. Talk with Dr. Yucel about how it applies to your child.
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Appointments
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Appointments are booked by phone. If you are calling after hours, the line goes to Dr. Yucel's cell phone and you reach your child's doctor directly.
Also reachable at (201) 525-0215 (201) 525-0216. Fax (201) 525-0217
Office hours
- Monday10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Tuesday10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Wednesday10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Thursday10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Friday10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Saturday10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
- SundayClosed
Hours can change during holidays and vacations. Please call to confirm.