I saw a 1 month-old girl for a well-child visit. Her mother would be returning to her job in two months, and would be placing the baby in childcare. The mother wanted my opinion of the various childcare options she was considering. I told her I preferred situations with smaller numbers of children, since fewer [...]
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Does My Baby Need Vitamin D?
In April, 2003, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a recommendation that all exclusively breastfed infants be given supplemental Vitamin D. The principal reason for this recommendation is that we continue to see cases of rickets in the United States. Rickets is a softening of the bones resulting from a number of causes, including [...]
Am I starving my baby?
You have just given birth. Months of planning and hoping and dreaming have climaxed in the arrival of a beautiful healthy baby. Maybe you put the baby to breast shortly after she was born. Not much happens, but then, not much is supposed to happen. Exhausted but happy you fall asleep. About two hours later [...]