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7 Exercise Ideas to Keep Kids Active This Winter
We’re all aware that regular physical activity is important and has many health benefits. But even some very active kids have a difficult time keeping the exercise going during the › Continue Reading...
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Learn the 4 Ws of Positive Praise To Change Behaviors in Kids
Praising kids comes easily for most parents. We want them to feel good about themselves and what they’re doing, so we tell them they’ve done a great job. The only › Continue Reading The post Learn the...
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How to Properly Clean a Dirty Car Seat
While throwing a car seat cover and straps in the washer and dryer seems like a convenient and sensible way to go about cleaning a dirty car seat, this is › Continue Reading The post How to Properly...
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Pulmonary Hypertension, HHT & New Year’s Resolutions
You may remember my daughter, Riley. I wrote about her a couple of years ago in a previous blog post. She was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension when she was four › Continue Reading The post...
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Preparing for a Baby with a Complex Fetal Diagnosis
Finding out that you are expecting is usually a time of celebration and anticipation. But when you learn that your baby has a complex fetal diagnosis, that experience changes quickly. › Continue...
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Giving the Gift of Life Twice: Living-Related Donor Transplant
My daughter, Katherine, was born on June 13, 2011, along with her twin brother, Kevin. We brought them home to an already full household. At the time her “older” brothers › Continue Reading The post...
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A Lot of Faith Needed: Tetralogy of Fallot, Chromosomal Disorder Diagnoses
We named our daughter Alana Faith, because it sounds like “a lot of faith.” It felt appropriate given how greatly we needed to lean on it from the very beginning › Continue Reading The post A Lot of...
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Video Visits: A New Way to Connect With a Pediatric Expert
Families in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana can now have a video visit with a pediatric expert if a child has a minor illness or injury. CincyKids Health Connect gives parents › Continue Reading The post...
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Babies Born with a Heart Defect: Resources for Families
Hearing the news that your baby has a congenital heart defect (CHD) can bring a wave of emotions, ranging from sadness to anger to guilt. Understandably, you’ve gone from having › Continue Reading The...
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Safe Sleep: How to Reduce The Risk of Sleep-Related Infant Deaths
The rate of sleep-related infant deaths has declined more than 50 percent since the 1994 Back-to-Sleep campaign was launched, encouraging parents to place infants to sleep on their backs....
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How to Listen to Earphones Safely
No matter where you go these days, people are using earphones. They use them for communicating, listening to music, and blocking background noise. They come in a variety of shapes › Continue Reading...
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How Important Are Baby Teeth?
Parents frequently ask me how important baby teeth are. After all, they just fall out and are replaced with another set. I often respond with a one-word answer: vital. Baby › Continue Reading The post...
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Sleep Apnea with Down Syndrome: New Treatment Shows Promise
More than half of children and almost all adults who have Down syndrome struggle with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). This airway condition causes breathing difficulties while sleeping, and can wake ›...
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Orthorexia: An Unhealthy Obsession with Healthy Foods
WHAT IS ORTHOREXIA? Orthorexia is an obsessive focus on healthy eating. In many cases, a change to the diet can be considered positive. However, some eating behaviors can quickly become › Continue...
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Functional Independence: Why I’ve Worked Out for 400+ Days
I exercised 478 days in a row. You’re probably assuming that I’m a body builder. Well, I guess in a way I sort of am. I’ve learned how to “rebuild” › Continue Reading The post Functional Independence:...
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How I Became an Advocate for My Child’s Rare Condition
In America, rare diseases are defined as disorders that affect fewer than 200,000 people in the country. My child has a condition affecting about 200 people in the entire world › Continue Reading The...
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What It Meant for My Son With Hemophilia A to Attend His Class Trip
Recently my 14 year-old son, Cecil, attended his class trip to New York City and Washington DC. While this sounds like a typical milestone for many teens, this trip and › Continue Reading The post What...
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Child Life Helps Patient with Anxiety Through 50-75 Yearly Procedures
You wouldn’t know it by looking at her, but my seven-year-old daughter, Soraya, is a particularly anxious child. I say that because on the outside, she is cheerful and colorful. › Continue Reading The...
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COVID-19 and Immunocompromised Patients: Guidance for Parents
COVID-19 is spreading in the United States and it is important for parents and caregivers of immunocompromised children and teens to be diligent about precautions and make some preparations. We don’t...
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Steps To Help Ease Kids’ Fears and Anxieties About COVID-19
New things and situations are anxiety producing, and COVID-19 is no exception. So much is unknown about the disease, and things seem to be changing quickly. This can be worrisome › Continue Reading The...
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Taking Care of Your Family’s Mental Health During COVID-19
Many of our patients face an increased risk from the broad impact of coronavirus (COVID-19). Because of this, we are providing our families with the following tips and strategies to › Continue Reading...
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How to Safely Disinfect for COVID-19
COVID-19 is at the top of everyone’s minds and we’re all wondering how to prevent it. I’ve seen some inaccurate information on social media about drinking vinegar and bleach to › Continue Reading The...
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COVID-19 UPDATE: Location Closures and Screening at Burnet Campus
Location closures: In response to the COVID-19 outbreak and current patient volumes, our Eastgate, Mason, and Northern Kentucky locations are closed until further notice. This includes Urgent Care at...
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Building Immunity with Food
Preventing illnesses, especially during the current COVID-19 pandemic, is at the top of all of our minds. While it’s not practical to think that we can avoid 100% of illnesses, › Continue Reading The...
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Ways to Keep Kids Exercising During COVID-19
Like most of you reading this, I am figuring out how to keep my children and myself physically active without the normal routine of school and sports during the COVID-19 › Continue Reading The post...
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Simple Activity Ideas for Kids During COVID-19
Parents are likely feeling overwhelmed right now, as they are trying to help their children navigate the many changes that have accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as managing their › Continue...
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9 Remote Learning Tips During COVID-19
Currently, we’re all facing new challenges we’ve never encountered before. Among them are parents helping their children through remote learning while managing all of their other responsibilities...
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Rehab at Home: How to Recover When You Can’t Get To the Gym
Whether it’s working-from-home, or digital learning, we’re doing more from home than ever before. For athletes who have sustained an injury and are in the rehab phase, this period of › Continue Reading...
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COVID-19 Ask the Expert: Dr. Robert Frenck
As people around the country deal with longer and longer periods of isolation due to COVID-19, we asked Dr. Robert Frenck, medical director of the division of infectious diseases at › Continue Reading...
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Lunch Ideas For Families Spending More Time At Home
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Teaching Kids CBT Coping Tools During COVID-19
Taking care of your family’s mental health is just as important as taking care of their physical health. During this time of stress and uncertainty related to COVID-19, now is › Continue Reading The...
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How Our Family Is Keeping Busy During COVID-19
The unknown is scary, and there are a lot of unknowns in our current situation. While it’s unsettling to live with so much uncertainty, our family has been trying to focus on › Continue Reading The...
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How an Immunocompromised Family is Handling COVID-19
Like many families across the country, we are anxious about the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19. However, our family may be different from some in that we are used to › Continue Reading The post...
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What Parents Can Do When They’re Stressed During COVID-19
To say that parents are stressed and overwhelmed right now is an understatement. There’s so much uncertainty. Many parents have lost their jobs or are facing the potential. Our social › Continue...
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COVID-19: Returning to Sports After Time Away
As the weather gets nicer and restrictions start to be lifted, we all hope we’re closer to playing and watching sports again. As the transition to more activity begins it’s › Continue Reading The post...
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COVID-19 & Kids: Identifying Mental Health Problems and Getting Help
We’ve been sheltering-in-place and managing our lives around the new coronavirus, COVID-19, for quite some time now. As a child psychologist, I figured that eventually our mental health would be ›...
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The Importance of Well-Child Visits During COVID-19
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve seen a significant drop in well-child visits at Cincinnati Children’s and at pediatric offices throughout our community. At the height of the...
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COVID-19: I Took My Daughter to A Doctor’s Appointment
Like a lot of parents, I am concerned about many aspects of COVID-19. Among numerous other things, I’m worried about what will happen if my kids get sick or hurt › Continue Reading The post COVID-19: I...
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COVID-19: What to Know About Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children...
The silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic has been that it doesn’t appear to affect children as much as it does adults. The majority of kids who have been infected › Continue Reading The post...
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COVID-19: Kids Should Wear Face Masks, Too
As more shelter-in-place orders are relaxing, the CDC recommends that all people, including children, wear masks outside of the home when it’s not possible to maintain six feet of distance › Continue...
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COVID-19: Tips to Help Kids Wear Face Masks
Our world has drastically changed in the last few months, and we’re needing to do things that we never expected. Wearing face masks is probably at the top of that › Continue Reading The post COVID-19:...
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Top 5 Summer Safety Tips for Families
This summer might look a little different than what you and your family had originally planned. That said, I have to imagine that it will still include lots of outdoor › Continue Reading The post Top 5...
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U.S. News & World Report: Ranked #3 in 2020-21
Earlier today, U.S. News and World Report released their annual Best Children’s Hospitals rankings, and Cincinnati Children’s is honored to be ranked number three on their 2020-2021 list of Honor ›...
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COVID-19: What We Know About Antibody Tests
As we continue to learn more about the new coronavirus, COVID-19, many families are wondering if they’ve been exposed to it or have had the disease previously. I’ve heard many › Continue Reading The...
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How to Talk to Kids About Racism
Issues of racism that plague our society have been brought to the world stage in response to recent events. With racial unrest at its peak, it is important for parents › Continue Reading The post How...
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Help Identifying Oppositional Defiant Disorder in Kids
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is one of those conditions that is often mislabeled. ODD is a behavior disorder characterized by uncooperative, defiant, negativistic, and annoying behaviors towards...
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Easing Back-to-School Jitters After A Long Summer
Parents and kids alike have a lot of mixed emotions about the impending school year. And while it’s typical for everyone to be a little nervous about getting back to › Continue Reading The post Easing...
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Tips to Encourage Screen-Free Learning During COVID-19
During this unusual time of the COVID-19 pandemic, one positive aspect of social distancing is that it has offered many families the opportunity to spend more time together. Whether reading, playing...
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COVID-19: Summer Ideas To Keep Kids Active & Engaged
This summer likely looks much different than what families had originally planned, with social distancing and the cancellation of many summer camps and programs. Parents are probably feeling a mixture...
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5 Things Parents Need to Know About Melatonin Use in Kids
A good night’s rest is important for everyone, but is particularly key for kids’ mental, physical and emotional well-being. It’s estimated that around 25% of healthy children and teens have › Continue...
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