Tag: vicky mcevoy
member name: Vicky McEvoy, M.D., Harvard Medical School
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April 13, 2009 01:22 PM EDT --
It is the season of college acceptances and rejections, which always stirs up feelings of angst in the hearts of parents. To compete in the world today, it helps to be armed with a good education and . . .
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May 18, 2009 04:43 PM EDT --
As most parents quickly learn, babies develop skills at very different rates. Some babies do everything early, from language acquisition to gross motor skills to fine motor development, while others are . . .
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May 26, 2009 05:45 PM EDT --
Whether to use daycare for your infant is a complicated issue. There are many factors to consider, top among them being whether both parents need to or want to work.
If you decide your baby will go . . .
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July 07, 2008 03:10 PM EDT --
Disclaimer: I am an unabashed, devoted animal lover. Do pets and babies mix? Absolutely! Of course, it depends on the pet. Pythons and llamas would not be on my recommended list of household pets.
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July 14, 2008 11:30 AM EDT --
"Do as I say, not as I do!" As much as we all would wish this saying worked with our offspring, the reality is that your actions do determine your children's behavior more than your . . .
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March 16, 2009 01:33 PM EDT --
It is possible to “potty train” a cat by holding the animal over the toilet every time it is urinating or having a bowel movement, so that eventually behavior modification kicks in and the cat knows to . . .
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April 20, 2009 10:45 AM EDT --
Have you heard of the allergic salute? This is the motion of a hand rising up to rub a runny and itchy nose over and over again. Allergic shiners are the dark circles that some children have under their . . .
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June 08, 2009 12:11 PM EDT --
One question I try to ask my patients over the age of three is, “Are you learning how to swim?” I cannot emphasize enough how important it is for children to be comfortable in the water. Swim . . .
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July 21, 2008 01:59 PM EDT --
in every baby. Virtually all babies have GER in the first three months of life. The reason for this regurgitation lies in an immature muscle at the end of the esophagus. The lower esophageal sphincter . . .
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March 02, 2009 11:17 AM EST --
Fever—especially a high fever in a young baby—can be worrisome for parents and doctors alike. Pediatricians consider 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit or above to be a fever. Fever is an elevation of body temperature . . .
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March 30, 2009 11:25 AM EDT --
Parents today may find themselves walking the fine line between offering exposure to various activities like sports, language classes, music lessons, and art, without over-programming their kids. Below . . .
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April 06, 2009 01:55 PM EDT --
In 1989 a group of physicians, nurses, and educators at Boston City Hospital (now part of Boston Medical Center) started a program called “Reach Out and Read” which initially sought to place books in . . .
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April 27, 2009 11:12 AM EDT --
The Academy of Pediatrics recently recommended that parents give pacifiers to infants when they are going to sleep. After years of telling parents that pacifiers cause, misaligned teeth, speech impediments, . . .
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May 11, 2009 03:46 PM EDT --
I recently received a joke about food. It essentially said that you cannot eat pork because of swine flu, you cannot eat chicken because of bird flu, no beef because of Mad Cow Disease, no fish because . . .
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July 01, 2008 11:02 AM EDT --
"Baby fat," "thunder thighs," "chubby cheeks" — are these euphemisms for "fat baby"? Is there such a thing as a fat baby? There was a time when pediatricians . . .
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October 20, 2008 11:36 AM EDT --
Tiny little nails on tiny little fingers — these cute little accessories can quickly become weapons. Often I will see a newborn baby with a nasty scratch across her face. Many times a parent may wonder . . .
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October 27, 2008 03:28 PM EDT --
Is that cute, little baby overtly defying you? There will come a time when your baby will begin testing you. Usually this starts in the second year — suddenly your baby has opinions! It may start by . . .
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November 03, 2008 04:01 PM EST --
Who is that writhing creature on the living room floor? Surely, that is not the little angel whom I vowed to adore until my dying days?
If the writhing creature is two years old or approaching the . . .
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February 10, 2009 11:20 AM EST --
Few families today have nine children (although apparently having fourteen is back in fashion), but I sometimes evoke what I call the “Rule of Nine” when families are having trouble setting limits on . . .
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February 17, 2009 11:36 AM EST --
Parents spend a lot of time studying their children’s bodies. At first they marvel that they produced this perfect little human specimen. Then, on closer exam, they start to notice little anomalies. . . .
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