Question from a patient: Maddie (13 months) used to eat anything on her tray but we are now in a picky phase. She throws food and yells if she doesn’t like it. The other night the only thing she would eat for dinner were blueberries. She ate half a pint lol. She seems to still … Continue Reading →
On the way home last week, the song, “It’s Time” by Imagine Dragons, filled the car. I had just dropped off my oldest daughter for her voice lesson. I was alone in the car – alone for the first time all day. My mind wandered around the winding streets of our neighborhood, darkness enveloped everything outside. … Continue Reading →
Most babies start to crawl between 6 and 10 months. It’s a natural progression from tummy time; infants often first scoot backward and then moving forward on their bellies before figuring out that they can get their knees up underneath them too and move more efficiently. It’s fun to watch a baby’s first forays into … Continue Reading →
Last week, a young college student was mourned after succumbing to a virulent form of bacterial meningitis. Emily Stillwell was 19, a sophomore at Kalamazoo college, and hailed from West Bloomfield. She developed a bad headache and fever and her roommates understood this was no ordinary illness. They helped her get to the hospital quickly … Continue Reading →
My three-year-old daughter has always been an overall good napper. When she gets a nice, solid nap, it makes me as happy as when she eats well at dinner (translation: ecstatic). One thing I learned early on is that napping has a significant correlation to better nighttime sleep. And no, a lack of naps does not … Continue Reading →
Whether you like it or not, you’re going to get a lot of advice about starting your baby on solid foods. And sometimes the advice you get will be wildly different from one person to the next. The confusing thing is that everybody’s advice seems to make some sense and there seems to be a … Continue Reading →
Influenza has hit early and hit hard. Your work colleagues are out sick, media reports tout the ERs are at capacity and you’re scrambling to minimize the chance that your children get sick with this year’s flu. First some facts: stomach flu is not the same as Influenza. Both are circulating now, but they are … Continue Reading →
When deep in the trenches of motherhood, I sometimes feel as if I am drowning in worry brought on by an overabundance of difficult choices. Are my children eating enough whole foods? Are they reading enough? Are they active enough? Do they have the tools to do well in social situations? I feel that the … Continue Reading →
I had high hopes of being able to come up with some valuable tips each week worthy of a blog post, but it appears that what I’m really good at is starting fires rather than putting them out. I seem to have much experience in hindsight and not much in avoiding the problem altogether. It … Continue Reading →
Have you ever caught yourself tearing up as you read your child a bedtime story? If not, try reading “Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch aloud. You know the book — the one that admittedly gets a tad creepy two-thirds of the way in when the elderly mom drives across town with a ladder to … Continue Reading →