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This Joke Begins With a Couple Looking for a Child...

This time the wife explains, "Our nanny is a certified expert in pediatric care, child welfare, proper nutrition and exercise - all that a child requires."

How to Know If a Child You Love Has Thyroid Problems

Thyroid function tests can be hard for the uninitiated to interpret, therefore, an evaluation by a pediatric endocrinologist can be very helpful.

Advocacy Groups Want the Messenger Kids App to Be Shelved

Nevertheless, dozens of pediatric and mental health experts are calling on Facebook to kill its Messenger Kids app for the sake of ensuring children’s safety.

Why Children Suck Their Fingers and How to Make It Stop

Jonelle Anmelchi, a pediatric dentist from Washington, USA. Seeking Comfort : As children grow, the act of thumb sucking evolves from a developmental necessity to a source of comfort, offering a sense of security similar to that provided by blankets, notes a 2015 study.

Direct Primary Care Practices May Revolutionize Healthcare

Hall to open a primary care pediatrics practice, Gold Standard Pediatrics, in South Carolina. He is part of a rapidly-growing movement of pediatricians and family medicine physicians that are employing the primary care model.

Why Do Elephants Rarely Get Cancer & What It Means For Us?

Joshua Schiffman, a pediatric oncologist at the University of Utah, agrees, and adds: “there are almost certainly going to be other findings as well.”

WARNING: New Guidelines on When to Expose Kids to Peanuts

Previously babies were supposed to avoid peanuts until the age of 3 or older, according to the guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics released in 2000. It was previously thought that introducing peanuts too early in life might increase the risk of an allergic reaction.

Sesame Oil Has Some Incredible Benefits, Did You Know?

Put babies to sleep In a study that was conducted in the pediatrics department of Delhi’s University College of Medical Sciences, it was found that sesame oil improves blood flow in babies and helps them fall asleep easier.

This is One Useful Oil You Always Want to Keep Around

Put babies to sleep In a study that was conducted in the pediatrics department of Delhi’s University College of Medical Sciences, it was found that sesame oil improves blood flow in babies and helps them fall asleep easier.

These Tips Can Help Your Kid Develop Healthy Eating Habits

By Tirsa Shani – a Pediatric Clinical Dietician For many parents, meal time is not an opportunity to eat and take a break from the stress of the day, but rather a battle scene where they struggle to make their children eat every single day.

NEVER Put These 5 Things in the Microwave!

In the same tests, conducted by the "Journal of Pediatrics", it was found that the heated milk also has greater E-coli growth, a harmful bacteria for humans and babies in particular. [related_articles] 2. 

Ten Things You Can Do With Sugar You Never Knew About

Calming babies: Pediatric studies have shown that babies who have been given a solution containing one spoon of sugar and four glasses of water before being vaccinated reacted more calmly to shots than those that weren't. 2.

Health Quiz: Do You Know How to Take Care of a Baby?

True False According to the National Institute of Health (NIH), parents should feed their progeny peanut butter to prevent nut allergy beginning at age... 4-6 months 1-2 years 10-12 months 4-6 years True or False: Crib bumpers are NOT a good tool for new parents According to the American Academy of Pediatrics

Beat the Odds With These Nifty Facts!

Careful when mowing the lawn Fact: Approximately 70 people are killed every year in lawn-mowing accidents while riding mowers, and nearly 250,000 are injured according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Most of these accidents occur on slopes when the mowers flip.