From Bottle to Cup: Helping Your Child Make a Healthy Transition
You’ve probably heard that when your baby is around 6 to 9 months old, it’s time to begin moving away from bottle feeding. But like many parents, you may feel a little apprehensive about this next step in your child’s growth and development. If your little one pouts, shouts or bursts into tears when you […]
March 15, 2023
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Head Injury: What to Do if Your Child Loses Consciousness
Head injury is one of the most common causes of loss of consciousness in children. If your child experiences loss of consciousness (is “knocked out”) following a head injury, you should always take it seriously and talk with a health care professional. Most of the time, head injuries are minor, and children only lose consciousness for […]
March 8, 2023
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Drinks to Prevent Dehydration When Your Child is Vomiting
When your child is throwing up (vomiting), it’s easy for them to become dehydrated. The risk is even greater when fever causes them to sweat more or they are also losing fluid through diarrhea. Depending on how severe or how long the vomiting lasts, your child may lose important electrolytes such as sodium, potassium and chloride. If your child […]
March 1, 2023
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Vaping: Dangerous, Available & Addicting
What is vaping? Electronic nicotine devices can look like a pen, a computer memory stick or flash drive, a car key fob, or even an asthma inhaler. Instead of inhaling tobacco smoke from a cigarette, e-cigarette users inhale vapor from liquid “e-juice” that has been heated with a battery-powered coil. This is called vaping. The juice usually […]
February 22, 2023
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Your Child’s First Crush
Yesterday we celebrated Valentine’s Day, a day when many children around the country give and receive little cards, candy and gifts with their classmates in classrooms decorated in pink and red hearts and cutouts of cupid. Older kids may ask a classmate to be their valentine, or make a sappy post on social media declaring […]
February 15, 2023
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Melatonin for Children
Melatonin has become a popular solution for insomnia in adults and children alike. It can be prescribed by a doctor, but it has become readily available in many forms over-the-counter and a quick solution for parents with restless children. But the use of melatonin for sleep is frequently misunderstood. How can you be sure you’re […]
February 8, 2023
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