It’s that time of year again — when runny noses, coughs and sore throats seem to be everywhere. Here are some simple tips from your local pediatric nurse practitioner to help keep your family healthy (and your sanity intact) during cold and flu season. Cold vs. flu The common cold and the flu can look […]
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My 3.5-year-old Josiah is very into dinosaurs lately. I think the fascination started after he first watched “The Land Before Time.” Did you know there are 14 “Land Before Time” movies now, plus 26 episodes of a TV series? My husband and I learned the hard way that after the first movie, composer James Horner
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One of the many things I did not anticipate about parenthood is how much time I would spend sorting through clothes. Kids, of course, grow. I knew that. But I didn’t realize it would mean pawing through my daughter’s dresser drawers every month or two, evaluating what still fits and what’s still in season. I
Last weekend, I decided to take the baby to Burlington. It was a glorious September day, warm and breezy. Several weeks prior, a friend of mine had dropped off some high-ticket hand-me-downs for us – a stroller, swing and baby hiking backpack – at another friend’s house. I was itching to get hold of this
Somewhere around 5.5 months, our baby started lunging for the food on our plates. She’d watch us eat and start to salivate. Was she ready to try real food? We decided she was. My husband and I were both spoon-fed baby food from jars. He was a picky eater; my mother recalls a period when
When our family moved to Rochester just over a year ago from Portland, Maine, (and before that from Jeffersonville, Vt.), we had some ideas for what to expect for ourselves, but not as clear an idea of what to expect for our now five-year-old daughter. Our hope was to be part of a welcoming community
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Last weekend my daughters experienced an important rite of passage: ear piercing. They were determined to get their ears pierced after watching the 1998 version of “The Parent Trap,” where Lindsay Lohan, playing a pair of twins, plunges a needle into her sister’s ear at summer camp. The girls wondered if they would scream like Lohan
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When it comes to baby milestones, everyone talks about crawling and walking. But our 6.5-month-old daughter has just unlocked a less championed, but still game-changing, new ability. She can sit up on her own. Our baby has never liked lying on her back. She’s prone to reflux, and in the early colicky weeks, digestion seemed
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Phew! We’ve done it folks. Another Vermont summer is in the books. The weather is just a little bit cooler these days, and the trees are starting to get some kisses of color on their branches. Reminding me, not only of how lucky we are to be living here, but also how lucky we are
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