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Pregnancy Advice for the Holiday Season
Congratulations, you’re pregnant – and you get to celebrate over the holiday season! The holidays can be exciting and stressful ...
A Parent’s Guide to Croup Symptoms & Treatment
Croup is a common disease caused by an infection in the upper airway. Children with croup often have coughs that ...
What to Consider Before Getting a Child a Pet
Your child keeps telling you they want a puppy or cat for the holidays, but you have doubts about whether ...
Can Children Use Charcoal Toothpaste?
Sometimes parents ask us if their kids can use charcoal toothpaste, usually to whiten yellow teeth. This is a tough ...
Tips on How to Stay Healthy This Thanksgiving
Every year, our ER gets busy right after Thanksgiving—’tis the season for crying toddlers with fevers, runny noses, and diarrhea ...
What to Do if Your Child Has Mono
A topic parents often ask about is what they should do if their child has mononucleosis, or “mono.” Mononucleosis is ...
Cold or Sinus Infection? What to Look For
The start of the fall season brings coughs, colds, runny noses, and more. During this time, a common question among ...
Empowering Foster Kids to Define Relationships
We are sometimes asked whether or not foster kids should call their foster parents mom or dad. This should be ...
Old Enough To Trick-Or-Treat Without Adults?
Halloween is here, which means it’s time for one of childhood’s best traditions, trick-or-treating! An exciting and contrary activity in ...