I would like to share some ideas that I give new parents for dealing with the emotional rollercoaster after the birth of a new child. (I don’t want to deal with the question of what is postpartum depression or does it exist.)
I can think of about three reasons why someone would be depressed [...]
The other day I was working with a patient who was told that her unborn baby had a potentially fatal problem. This was extremely hard for this woman to hear. Her previous child had died of the same illness after being hospitalized in the ICU for months without ever going home. I [...]
ADHD1: So Whose Fault Is It?
Before we start calling parents of those with ADHD bad parents, we need to stop and think about some of the implications of what we discussed in “What Causes ADHD?”
First of all, there is likely a large genetic component to the traits that make up what we call ADHD. [...]
Most churches have nursery policies that sometimes are based more on parent comfort than medical fact. In a brief search of nursery policies on the internet I came across a couple things that I felt warranted some comment.
Fever: A fever is defined as a core body temperature above 100.4 degrees. [...]