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In the 18 years I have been practicing pediatrics, few things have changed. Normally medicine moves cautiously. Scientific evidence seeps slowly from labs, to offices, into households. However, when new evidence arrives for a better path forward, it is our job as clinicians to interpret, digest a...

As pediatricians, we can almost guarantee every baby will stress their parents out at some point when it comes to eating. The stressors vary from not eating enough, eating at the wrong time, eating the wrong type of food or eating requires an immense amount of your time and energy. Try to rememb...

At baby doc box we talk a lot about sleep and provide many tools for helping your baby sleep through the night at several ages and developmental stages. As pediatricians we think dealing with your baby’s sleep is one of the most important parenting quests you will embark on. First off, babies ar...

Like many parenting trails you will find yourself on, feeding is a twisty one with sharp turns and different opinions. Fending off the onslaught of advice of which way to feed your baby will be tough. As with sleep, there are some hard and fast safety rules, but afterwards, much is up for interp...

What is a parenting pause? A parenting pause is self-care, it’s a moment away, or time off from your life as a parent. Parenting pauses are hard to take whether you have a two-week-old, a two-month-old, a two-year-old, or a twelve-year-old. It can be inconvenient or even chaotic, like a juggler ...

I was sleep deprived and back at work after twelve weeks at home with my son, Jack. He was up every three hours like clockwork each night. He breastfed and went back to sleep like the books say a baby should. But the books didn’t talk about what to do if I couldn’t go back to sleep. Which I didn...