New Parent Health Advice
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Food Allergy Resources
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- Parent Category: Eating
- Category: New Parent Eating, New Parent Health Advice
Do you find yourself hyperventilating at even the work peanut (or gluten, dairy, etc). Here is a round up of the folks out there who can help!
Community Reminder: The Flu and Viruses
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- Category: Advice - Health and Healing, Kid Related Health, Parent Health Advice, New Parent Health Advice
You've all probably heard the warnings about the flu going around.We had questions about getting vaccines this week on our list. As a community we can do a lot to keep ourselves and our neighbors healthy so we're posting these neighborly reminders!
Constipation
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- Parent Category: Advice - Health and Healing
- Category: Kid Related Health, New Parent Health Advice
Poop on getting the poop out.
8 Ways To Treat Cradle Cap
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- Parent Category: Advice - Health and Healing
- Category: Kid Related Health, New Parent Health Advice
8 tips to help with cradle cap - those dry scalp scratchies!
Tonsils Out! (Adenoid and Tonsil Advice)
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- Parent Category: Advice - Health and Healing
- Category: Kid Related Health, New Parent Health Advice
PSP members share advice and expriences about adenoidectomies, recovery times, and how YOU will make it through the surgery (the kid will be fine).
Circumcision - To Snip or NOT to Snip
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- Parent Category: Advice - Health and Healing
- Category: Kid Related Health, New Parent Health Advice
Advice over the years about whether to circumcize your son.
Recovering from the Croup
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- Parent Category: Advice - Health and Healing
- Category: Kid Related Health, New Parent Health Advice
Ideas for kids suffering from the croup.
Blocked or Clogged Tear Duct
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- Parent Category: Advice - Health and Healing
- Category: Kid Related Health, New Parent Health Advice
Advice from PSP Parents who have dealt with their child having a blocked tear duct - and even one message from a parent who suffered from this condition herself as a child!
Mommy's Thumb, Wrist and Tendonitis
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- Parent Category: Advice - Health and Healing
- Category: Parent Health Advice, New Parent Health Advice
Mommy's thumb, mommy's wrist, deQuervain's tendonitis and tenosynovitis, or even carpal tunnel — here's how PSP members handled it.
Incontinence after Childbirth
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- Parent Category: Advice - Health and Healing
- Category: New Parent Health Advice, Pregnancy and Childbirth
Are you suffering from incontinence issues post childbirth? You are not alone. Many Park Slope Parents describe this as a common but a rarely talked about experience. In this article we share what membershave said in the past for dealing with incontinence.
Advice for Diastasis Recti
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- Parent Category: Advice - Health and Healing
- Category: New Parent Health Advice
How PSP members treated diastasis.
Resources For a Traumatic Birth Experience
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- Category: New Parent Big Stuff, Parent Health Advice, New Parent Health Advice, Health & Illness Support
No two birth experiences are alike and a mother's transition from labor and delivery to new motherhood can be vastly different. For some moms, moving out of a traumatic birth experience (TBE) never seems to happen. Some have been physically injured by the birth of their baby, and postpartum care doesn't always address these health issues. Other new moms are impacted by anxiety, anger and disappointment as well as full blown postpartum depression. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can be a possible outcome of childbirth.
How To Deal With Colic
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- Category: New Parent Big Stuff, Kid Related Health, New Parent Health Advice
Are you wondering how to deal with a baby with colic? Here are some tips and advice from PSP parents about helping a colicky baby.
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