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When should you start feeding baby food and solid foods?
What should your baby’s first foods be? First foods should be limited to low-allergy foods, vegetables, and fruits. Offering solid foods too early can lead to allergies. Also, keep in mind that solids foods should not be used to help your baby sleep through the night.
Tools for a Healthy Weight Gain During Pregnancy
Pregnancy is not the time to be on a weight loss diet. But it is important to maintain a healthy weight gain as your baby grows. We have created some tools you can use to monitor your weight gain. If you’re not gaining enough weight, or gaining weight too fast, you can use the two day food chart to help identify ways to adjust your weight gain.
Tips for Preventing Complications From Diabetes
With diabetes, you have to work just a bit harder than others to eat right, keep active, and stay healthy. Things you do everyday have an effect on your body and your health. These are some things you can do to stay healthy. Print out our flier and put in on your refrigerator to help remind you of steps you can take to prevent complications from diabetes.
Sharing Toys Can Mean Sharing the Flu
The CDC recommends that kids ages 6 months to 18 years of age get the flu vaccine because they are so vulnerable to the flu because of the way the virus spreads. Kids aren’t as likely to practice hygiene to prevent getting or spreading the flu like hand washing and covering their mouth when they cough or sneeze. Kids probably won’t recognize flu symptoms in another child and avoid contact with them.
Kick Counts Worksheet – record your baby’s movements
Fetal kick counts help tell how active your baby is. Besides counting kicks, you will be counting every time your baby moves, rolls, or twists. Though strongly recommended for high risk pregnancies, counting fetal movements beginning at 28 weeks may be beneficial for all pregnancies.
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Article Archive
Achilles Tendonitis – Symptoms, Diagnosis & Treatment
Achilles tendonitis is when the Achilles tendon becomes inflamed or irritated. This inflammation is often a result of a lot of stress on your calf muscles and Achilles tendon from either a sudden increase in intensity or frequency of exercise.
Sample Letter to Employees for H1N1 Virus
Since we have not been sufficiently vaccinated to prevent the H1N1 flu, it’s important to inform employees about what they can do to prevent the spread of cold and flu viruses, particularly H1N1 (Swine flu). Keeping your workforce healthy and at work is a goal of many employers—our sample letter to employees will tell employees what they can do to protect themselves and their family from getting the H1N1 flu. Having a healthy workplace not only helps your business continue to run as it should, but it also keeps employees from taking illnesses home to their families.
Riding the Pink Roller Coaster – patience is a virtue, however thin
Being a nurse practitioner she knows too much and she panics as she wonders if her vertebrae are collapsing around her spine and will she soon be paralyzed.
Riding the Pink Roller Coaster – up and down we go!
Our first high came when it was determined that the cancer was only in her bones. If they could keep it in her bones, she could live another 5-10 years.
Riding the Pink Roller Coaster – breast cancer’s emotional journey
You’d think our family would have gotten used to the emotional ups and downs of waiting on tests, bone scans, PET scans and biopsies. It’s the hope of one more day, week, or whatever we can have with this fabulous, caring person that keeps us going.
