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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...