News & Updates
Nature-Deficit Disorder: How Your Kids Can Spend More Time Outdoors
Nature-deficit disorder is the idea that we experience negative mental and physical health effects when we spend too little time outdoors. While nature-deficit disorder is not recognized as a medical or mental disorder, it describes a very real problem. Kids seem to...
3 Painless Parenting Strategies to Help Children with Homework
by Emily Graham at MightyMoms.net Helping kids with homework is a sweet and sour experience. It's amazing to see how much they grow and improve over time, and watch them conquer obstacles that come their way. But when those obstacles arrive in the first place, it can...
On The 10 Year Old Visit – Why We Give the HPV (Human Papillomavirus) Vaccine
The Providers of Pediatric & Adolescent Health Partners give this important vaccine to our youth because the HPV vaccine can prevent 9 out of 10 cases of a cancer that affects the tongue, throat, and cervix. Would you not want us to give a vaccine to your child...
Our Parents Guide to Your Adolescent Health Maintenance Visit
Adolescence is a crucial time for yearly well checks. Although adolescents tend to be very healthy patients; they are undergoing huge changes physically, cognitively, emotionally, and socially. Young children need their parents in the room for reassurance and to...
The Sad Statistics of Teenage Suicide
Why does Pediatric & Adolescent Health Partners ask our 12 year and older patients on their annual Preventive Care Visits about suicide?? 1. We do this because teenage suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death for youthaged 10 to 24 years. In fact, in 2013, more...
Breast Is Best?
We always hear breast is best, right? What does that mean though? Are you on the fence about breastfeeding? Are you thinking, “I’m gonna try, but am OK if it doesn’t work.” Take the time to watch this documentary and read the article in the link below. Both are...
Has your provider ordered supplementing for your baby?
There are many factors that make supplementing a necessary and temporary means of feeding your baby. This does not mean that breastfeeding has failed or that you will not be able to successfully breastfeed your infant. This is an addition to your breastfeeding efforts...
The First Few Days With Your Baby
Babies are smart, strong, agile and act on instinct from the moment they are brought into this world. They are alert following birth for 2-3 hours. It is beneficial for you and your baby to offer skin to skin and your breast at this time. Nursing your baby when he or...
Do you have nipple pain?
Tenderness is common those first days when you first start to breastfeed your infant. If you have compressed, bruised and bleeding nipples that hurt when you aren’t even feeding, please get help. It takes lots of practice to learn how to latch your baby. In the...