Well-Baby Checkups Articles
H1N1 Virus and Vaccine: Four Perspectives
While we don't have a recommendation for whether you should vaccinate or not, but we do believe you should have easy access to expert insights that can help you make an informed decision. Here are four perspectives you should take into consideration.
Choosing a Green Pediatrician
As you did when choosing an ob/gyn, you want to find a pediatrician who is top-notch medically. How much better if he or she is also on the journey to an environmentally sustainable perspective on pediatrics!
Keeping Your Baby's Head the Perfect Shape
Babies don't get plagiocephaly from being put on their backs to sleep but from spending extended periods lying on their backs, particularly if they always tend to lie looking to one side. This can occur because:
Getting the Most out of Your Visit to the Pediatrician
A trip to the pediatrician can be an anxious time for parents as they are often worried about their child's health. The following tips should ensure you get the most out of your visit.
A Silent Epidemic is Hurting our Children
There is a silent epidemic spreading throughout America. It is insidious and ravaging, and its victims are our children. What is it? Overweight and obesity in children has emerged as a serious threat to our nation's health.
Interviewing Prospective Doctors
After I discuss how to determine who the "best doctor in town" for you is, I'll give you some hints on how to become his or her patient, even if that doctor doesn't take your insurance. One of the best ways to identify great doctors is to ask nurses in that field whom they would recommend. Nurses see both the professional and the human sides of doctors.
Newborn Screening
These tests are intended to detect inborn disorders that could result in early mortality or lifelong disability. Generally, most states only test for selected disorders and not all states do the same screening tests. It is important to be informed about any and all tests that are available for your baby.
Germ Warfare
They don't call it a waiting room for nothing. When I walk into my pediatrician's office -- two sick kids in tow -- I shiver, knowing the endurance test that awaits. The room, lined on all sides by irritable-looking adults and hordes of (literally) snot-nosed children..
Preventing Colds and Flus
Studies show that women are more prone to colds and flus after having children -- and kids themselves are exposed to germs continually in childcare and preschool. So it's smart to take up arms against those microbial invaders!
Twenty-first Century Sneeze
Recently, a friend mentioned that schools are encouraging children to sneeze on their arm sleeve instead of their hand. The old adage "cover your mouth when you sneeze" takes on a new perspective. Now to demonstrate, instead of using a cupped hand, one would need to sweep your entire arm across your face. The 21st century sneeze.
Keeping Your Baby's Head the Perfect Shape
Babies don't get plagiocephaly from being put on their backs to sleep but from spending extended periods lying on their backs, particularly if they always tend to lie looking to one side. This can occur because:
A Silent Epidemic is Hurting our Children
There is a silent epidemic spreading throughout America. It is insidious and ravaging, and its victims are our children. What is it? Overweight and obesity in children has emerged as a serious threat to our nation's health.
Interviewing Prospective Doctors
After I discuss how to determine who the "best doctor in town" for you is, I'll give you some hints on how to become his or her patient, even if that doctor doesn't take your insurance. One of the best ways to identify great doctors is to ask nurses in that field whom they would recommend. Nurses see both the professional and the human sides of doctors.
Newborn Screening
These tests are intended to detect inborn disorders that could result in early mortality or lifelong disability. Generally, most states only test for selected disorders and not all states do the same screening tests. It is important to be informed about any and all tests that are available for your baby.
Being Careful with Sugar
The average American today eats over 150 pounds per year of refined sugars - compared to zero pounds during most of human history. High consumption of sugar (and the elevated levels of insulin that come with it) is associated with Type II diabetes, weight gain...
Germ Warfare
They don't call it a waiting room for nothing. When I walk into my pediatrician's office -- two sick kids in tow -- I shiver, knowing the endurance test that awaits. The room, lined on all sides by irritable-looking adults and hordes of (literally) snot-nosed children..
Preventing Colds and Flus
Studies show that women are more prone to colds and flus after having children -- and kids themselves are exposed to germs continually in childcare and preschool. So it's smart to take up arms against those microbial invaders!
Infant Hearing
For effective intervention and rehabilitation to occur, infants should be tested in the newborn nursery or they may never be tested until specific symptoms of hearing loss are observed by parents or care takers.
Choosing a Green Pediatrician
As you did when choosing an ob/gyn, you want to find a pediatrician who is top-notch medically. How much better if he or she is also on the journey to an environmentally sustainable perspective on pediatrics!
Has Your Baby's Hearing Been Screened?
Most children hear and listen from birth. They learn to talk by imitating the sounds around them and the voices of their parents and caregivers. But that's not true for all children. In fact, about 2 or 3 out of every 1,000 children in the United States are born deaf or hard-of-hearing
- A Silent Epidemic is Hurting our Children
- Anesthesia and Children
- Baby's Blood Type
- Being Careful with Sugar
- Childcare: Biggest Mistakes
- Choosing a Green Pediatrician
- General Information About Antibiotic Resistance
- Germ Warfare
- Getting the Most out of Your Visit to the Pediatrician
- H1N1 Virus and Vaccine: Four Perspectives
- Has Your Baby's Hearing Been Screened?
- Impetigo: Kids and Skin Rashes
- Infant Hearing
- Interviewing Prospective Doctors
- Keeping Your Baby's Head the Perfect Shape
- Newborn Screening
- Preventing Colds and Flus
- Twenty-first Century Sneeze
- When Does Spitting Up Signify a Problem?
