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• Why Feeding Your Baby Peanuts Sooner May Prevent Allergies

  Over the past couple of decades, recommendations for introducing peanuts to children have shifted dramatically. After recommendations in 2000 were made to delay introduction to high-risk infants until age 3, peanut and other food allergies have continued to increase significantly. 

• Are You Ready for Hurricane Season?

  With the start of hurricane season, now is the time to make your hurricane plans. Long before the first watch or warning is issued is the best time to prepare for the season, which continues through November. By preparing now, you are better able to protect yourself and your family from a hurricane and its aftermath.

• Shaping Lives Through Everyday Victories

  When we think of life-shaping experiences, we often recall childhood. We remember our first bicycle ride without training wheels, discovering our favorite foods or that first A on a school assignment — the everyday victories that helped shape our lives. For children and families who face neurologic conditions such as brain, spine and nerve injuries or disorders, life-shaping experiences take on different meanings where every word, step or smile can represent victories. Advances in pediatric neuroscience make these victories possible for children, even those who have not yet been born.

• How one physical therapist overcame scoliosis and now helps children do the same

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• When every bite is a fight - Diego’s struggle to overcome feeding difficulties

  Diego was born on May 31st, 2012, and his parents, Diana and Freddy, were overjoyed. Diego was a happy, healthy baby, and he entered into the world as part of a family that radiates light and love.

• How to Make Time-out an Effective Discipline Strategy

  As a pediatric resident, I spend a lot of time discussing discipline with the parents of toddlers.  I have found that many parents struggle to find an effective method of disciplining their children; they often try various forms of discipline, but are unable to find a method that really works. I begin discussing discipline at a child’s 12-month checkup so that parents have the tools necessary to establish a discipline technique early and use it effectively as their child grows. 

• Three Tips for Tough Talks with Your Kids

  Illness, death or tragedies in the news: what should parents say?

• What you need to know about cough and cold medicine for kids

  What you need to know about cough and cold medicine for kids

• What pregnant women need to know about the Zika virus

  If you’re pregnant or planning to become pregnant, here are some things to keep in mind:

• What is Plagiocephaly?

  What do you do if your child has an irregularly shaped head?