Author: elephantinthewomb
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Measles Makes a Comeback: What You Need to Know as Parents
Doing a postpartum/new parent education session recently, I was (not surprisingly) asked about measles. People are seeing it in the news and all sorts of places online, so it is natural to have questions – especially because many of us who are parents to very young children right now probably are not that familiar with…
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Who is on my Healthcare Team? Social Workers {New Series}
This series has been a long time coming to the blog, and I finally have the courage to start it! Team-based care is a big thing right now in primary care and beyond. Healthcare workers have been working in teams for a long time, but they are not always necessarily efficient and they don’t always…
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Postpartum Wrist Pain {Postpartum Struggles & Solutions Series}
I do some postpartum/child health education sessions with Mommy Connections Mississauga and one thing I am frequently asked about is how to manage certain postpartum ouchies, concerns, and postpartum wellbeing overall. Those are some BIG questions and I think these questions come up a lot because of the gap in postpartum care. Although postpartum care…
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Cold prevention or placebo?
Everyone is always out to find a preventative measure for illness, which fair enough – that is often the goal of many research studies in medicine and health. We want to focus on the upstream, stopping something before we need more help with it. Avoiding the burden of illness, which comes with much more than…
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Febrile Seizures
I’ve covered fevers, thermometers, and many common childhood illnesses that involve fevers…. but I have yet to talk in-depth about febrile seizures. Experiencing your child having a febrile seizure as a parent can be quite frankly, traumatic (just like seeing your child have any type of seizure, especially for the first time). There is some…
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Daycare Outbreaks: RSV
I can’t believe that I am almost forgot to cover RSV in this series – but don’t worry, I got you. November means it is officially RSV season (though some sources say December, our screening for the vaccine for high risk populations started with November births). So let’s dive right into this one because there…
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Influenza and the Flu Shot: Common Claims & Evidence-Based Explanations (Part 2)
To read part 1 of this series, please click here. To listen to this blog post instead, click here or listen where you get your podcasts. In the first part of this series, we covered the what and why (risk/benefit) of flu shots and influenza. Now, lets look at some of the common myths that…
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Influenza and the Flu Shot: What and Why (Part 1)
Listen to this episode here instead. It is that time of year again – I say, in October, which is when Ontario gets it despite the US having it weeks before us… You’ve probably seen the Shopper’s Drug Mart signs or received an e-mail from your provider’s office or maybe you’ve just heard other people…
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The 6 Month Appointment: What to Expect {Quick Read!}
Click to find my overview of the 2 month and 4 month appointments respectively. Please note that the 6 month vaccinations are very similar to 2 and 4 months. I will cover the potential difference(s) below briefly. Disclaimer: this is not medical advice nor should it be interpreted as such. This blog is for informational…
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18 Months of James: Milestones, Sleep and More
As part of the content I produce on this blog, I like to include my own story. Why? Because maybe someone can relate. Maybe it will help someone navigate raising their own children. Maybe I can link a few helpful resources that someone needs. I contemplated stopping these milestone updates, but I actually had a…
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