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In the United States, 2-3 out of every 1,000 babies are born with a hearing deficit, according to the National Institutes of Health. Fortunately, all newborns are screened at birth for hearing loss, which helps identify babies that need early...
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Parenting
Your new baby has arrived, and you are eager to get back into shape. However, losing weight after pregnancy takes time and patience, especially because your body is still undergoing many hormonal and metabolic changes. Most women will lose half...
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Baby
If you’re like many moms, once you’ve given birth, your thoughts quickly turn to losing extra baby weight. In our celebrity-obsessed culture, it seems that every new mom should be able to do that in a matter of weeks. The truth is that notion is...
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Pregnancy
Every year, 10 million American women deal with an eating disorder. While many of these women will stop having periods because of their low weight, some will still menstruate and become pregnant. How an eating disorder can affect a pregnancy can be...
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Pregnancy
After you’ve given birth to your baby, there are a lot of things you expect to lose (especially the baby weight!). What you might not expect to lose is your hair. However, an estimated 40-50 percent of women experience greater-than-normal amounts...
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Pregnancy
Approximately 35 percent of adult Americans, or 1 in 3 people, are now obese. Obesity is defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or above. While we know many complications associated with obesity, being pregnant and obese has its own...
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Blog
Over the weekend, Adele was given the coveted award at the Grammys for Best Album. The fascinating part of her speech, aside from honoring Beyonce, was her very public recognition of her struggles with postpartum depression and how it has affected...
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Giving birth is wonderful, but it also means big changes when you get home with that baby and you’re wearing enormous pads, you’re bleeding, your baby is crying, you’re crying, and everybody is running around. In this Facebook Live event, supported...
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Parenting
Whether you always realize it or not, you are your child’s role model—and what you do or say as a parent (and a person!) has a profound affect on your child’s developing psyche. This includes body image messages, which can be powerful in part...
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Health
What is Hodgkin’s disease? Hodgkin’s disease is a type of cancer that affects the body’s lymph system. The lymph system includes lymphocytes or lymph cells that move throughout the body, working to fight infection. However, Hodgkin’s disease causes...
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Pregnancy
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Pregnancy
The use of bed rest or extreme activity restriction is a common first-line treatment for many complications of pregnancy, including: preterm labor, being pregnant with multiples, placenta previa, and preeclampsia or high blood pressure, to name a...
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Health
Marijuana, or cannabis, has been used for a variety of medicinal purposes for many years. Doctors prescribe medical marijuana to treat numerous symptoms and diseases, including seizure disorders, muscle spasms, nausea, cancer, weight loss, and poor...
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Health
The lymph system is a part of the body’s immune system; it is responsible for filtering harmful cells from the blood and producing immune system cells. Cancers of the lymph system are known as lymphomas. Physicians diagnose an estimated 2,200...
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Health
Hepatoblastoma, a liver cancer, is a very rare condition in children, with an estimated 0.9 per 1 million children experiencing the condition, according to St. Jude Children’s Hospital. Hepatoblastoma is most commonly diagnosed in children from...
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Pregnancy
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a condition that affects 12-21 percent of all women, depending on the definition used and the population being examined. It can be present when a woman has two main issues: irregular or absent periods, and signs...
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Pregnancy
Your thyroid gland is a butterfly-shaped gland that is located in the front of your neck. Its job is to produce thyroid hormones that help regulate your metabolism, and these hormones affect many organs in your body. Having too much or too little...
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Baby
You’ve got a picky eater on your hands, and if you’re like most parents, you’re wondering what you should do, if anything, to manage this. You’ve heard the pat advice: don’t worry about it; this is a normal stage; your child will grow out of it....
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As a busy pediatrician and mother of a very active 20-month-old toddler, I was shocked to learn that I had an incompetent cervix at 22 weeks of pregnancy. When my OB told me I had to stop working and spend the rest of my pregnancy on bed rest or...
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Blog
“One can dream.” That’s often a quote we hear when we talk about winning the lottery or landing a job that lets us do something great like being a taster of new ice cream flavors for a living (I wish). However, what’s sad is that many American moms...
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It’s the New Year, and many men and women are gearing up to make (and hopefully keep) their New Year’s resolutions. However, if you are pregnant, here are some resolutions you should probably skip. 1. Getting healthy by trying a juice cleanse or...
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Pregnancy
You’ve just spent nearly 40 weeks growing a human, carefully watching what you eat and how much you weigh. Now that you’ve given birth, you might be anxious to get the extra pounds off and, more importantly, focus on getting your body back in...
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Health
Snoring is not an unusual symptom in children. As many as 10 percent of all kids snore on a nightly basis, according to the National Sleep Foundation. But when snoring accompanies symptoms such as gasping for air, very loud snoring or taking short...
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Health
Cancer refers to any condition that causes cell to multiply uncontrollably in the body. These conditions can occur in people of all ages and at any place in the body, including the brain. While brain tumors and cancer in general are rare in young...
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Health
Childhood leukemia is cancer of the blood. It is the most common cancer in young people, accounting for an estimated 1 in 3 cancers in teenagers and children, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS). It’s important to note, however, that the...
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Blog
This is sponsored content. Crying all night. Poopie diapers. Spit-up. Feeding time…AGAIN. A stress level that is higher after the baby comes than it was before, coupled with exhaustion. These are just some of the many ways new parents are...
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Dr. Google is not your friend. Now, before you send me hate mail about how doctors just want to deprive you of information in order to make more money, let me clarify. Google has a place in all of our lives. Not a day goes by that I don’t Google...
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Just like we’ve given you a glimpse into the mind of your pediatrician, here are a few tips your OB/GYN might want you to know: I can’t tell you when you’ll have your baby. While I may be able to provide a really good guess, short of you having a...
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Pregnancy
Domestic violence, also known as intimate partner violence, is when a person subjects their partner to a pattern of threatening or controlling behavior. This may include emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. Sadly, 1 in 3 women in the United States...
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Pregnancy
You’ve just given birth to a beautiful baby. But when your pregnancy is complicated by gestational diabetes, you may be concerned about the health of your baby as well as your own. To check for possible complications, your baby may be taken out of...
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Health
Childhood tuberculosis accounts for 6 to 10 percent of all cases of TB worldwide. In fact, up to 80,000 children worldwide die from this bacterial disease. In the United States, the numbers are much lower, but pediatric TB does exist. So what is...
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Pregnancy
Postpartum thyroiditis is a condition that results in inflammation of the thyroid gland after giving birth. The condition first causes high thyroid levels, then results in hypothyroidism or low thyroid levels. Knowing the symptoms of postpartum...
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Health
When a child refuses you, it can frustrate the most patient parent. Young children can be notoriously picky eaters, but when does it cross the line to an actual feeding disorder? What are childhood feeding disorders? Children with feeding disorders...
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Toddler
When a child won’t eat the meal you offer him or her, it can be frustrating and worrisome for any parent. It’s common for young children to be picky eaters from time to time. But how do you know the difference between normal childhood pickiness and...
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Health
Outbreaks of diarrhea are extremely common among kids who spend time in childcare settings, but many parents don’t realize that these outbreaks are often caused by a parasite. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Giardia...