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Parenting: Circumcision

This article on Circumcision is the Thirty-first (and perhaps final) in the series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never physically met but have bonded with over sharing ideas, opinions and experiences. His URL is up for sale, I lost track of him after COVID, and now have archived his content here for safe keeping until he wants it back. (Except his images which were lost, so I have added some back for clarity)

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Three Magic Questions of Breastfeeding

[Guest Author] This article on breastfeeding is the fourteenth in a series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with from sharing ideas, opinions and experiences; including having a penchant for medical blogging. His URL is up for sale, and I’ve lost track of him, but his content will be here for safe keeping until he wants it back.

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Parenting: Never Trust Newborns

This article about never trusting the Newborn to do the expected is the ninth in a series of guest posts from a pediatrician I’ve never met but have bonded with over sharing ideas, opinions and experiences; including having a penchant for medical blogging. His URL is up for sale, and I’ve lost track of him, but his content will be here for safe keeping until he wants them back.
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Safe Sleep For Infants: SIDS & SUIDs

The slogan “Back to Sleep” which revolutionized infant sleep methods has been changed to “Safe To Sleep” to broaden its scope and bring other causes of sleep-related infant death “into the fold” for research. Perhaps you already knew that, the slogan has been registered as a trademark of the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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Breastfeeding and Human Milk

One of the most common topics for medical articles these days (besides immunizations) is breast feeding. There’s really a lot of them. It’s almost like people are trying to make a point.
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You’ve Come A Long Way Baby

I should like to tell you today about a better use for the slogan “you’ve come a long way baby” than was previously expressed in an advertising campaign.

Many don’t realize that it has only been 30 – 50 years ago that very literally every family had one or two children die in infancy; and nearly everyone knew of (more…)

Infant Circumcision

When I speak at a prenatal childbirth class, I usually talk about "little things."

The things which sometimes seem insignificant, but which in reality really do make a great deal of difference.

Things like: fluoride drops, car seats, feeding the right foods, etc.

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