Welcome to summer! Some seasonal topics to read up on: a germ that lurks in pool water, itchy rashes from poison ivy, painful ears from swimmer’s ear and how to prevent kids…
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Guest blogger pediatrician Heidi Román returns to us today to give practical advice on how to decrease potential toxins in your child’s environment. In today’s world we are surrounded by “stuff”. We…
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Early childhood educators wear many hats. Not only do they teach, but also they are often called on to give medical attention to their students. Last week we shared with early childhood…
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My youngest child clambered off the bus Friday afternoon with a fixed grin across his face. “What are you doing here?” he asked curiously. Usually, I am not home in…
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My oldest child hated tummy time. Miserable, she would flail on the floor and wail like a marooned walrus. Although she eventually learned to tolerate it for periods of time, she disliked…
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Squeezed through the birth canal, many babies are born with pointy, cone-shaped heads. Others, delivered by caesarian section, start off life with round heads. No baby begins with a flat head.…
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We’re pleased to bring to the Greater Phildaelphia Area our “Scoop on Poop” post which was published in the Healthy Kids blog for Philadelphia Inquirer’s philly.com. Although many can not talk about the topic…
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“Calling” all moms and dads with cell phones! We discovered a new free service from the US National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition. The service text4baby texts health maintenance tidbits three times…
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We asked Dr. Raymond Wu, the doctor behind the popular new infant iphone app babyCPR, to talk about how to perform CPR on babies under one years old. We even convinced him…
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You wake up in the middle of the night to the sound of a seal barking inside your house. More specifically, from inside the crib or toddler bed. Unless you actually have…
