Kangaroo care is the practice of holding your baby skin-to-skin against your bare chest. This quiet, connected time mimics the warmth and safety of the womb, and offers significant benefits for you and your baby.
It’s normal to feel uncertain or overwhelmed when your baby is in the NICU. But even if you can’t hold or feed them right away, there are still several meaningful ways you support them.
Anxiety is a common mental health issue that affects both adults and children. Unfortunately, when dealing with anxiety in children, it can be more difficult to understand when and how it's affecting them.
Spring is the perfect time to set appointments for school and sports physicals. Annual physicals are a crucial way to assess your child’s overall health.
Halloween trick-or-treating is an activity many kids look forward to every year. But before your little superheroes and spooky skeletons run out the door, there are a few things to consider.
Asthma is a common but potentially life-threatening condition. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1 in 13 people in the United States live with asthma.
If you have teenagers, you’ve probably experienced your share of emotional extremes and erratic behavior often exhibited during this age. There’s a reason.
Eleven years old, fighting cancer and dealing with unbearable pain, Neely Lucquete told her parents she was going to die. And all she wanted was her cat.
