Category: Health
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Addressing Fears Around Vaccinations: Myths and Evidence
Babies receive a number of vaccinations in their first year of life, and this can be stressful for parents. Understandably so! Who really enjoys receiving a vaccine? Like, really? We can enjoy the benefits but not enjoy the process and it’s also totally normal to have other concerns as well. Some things we as parents…
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Managing Pink Eye in Children (Conjunctivitis)
Red eyes = pink eye? Maybe, but there are also other causes of eye redness and even eye goop (discharge)! Lets take a look at pinkeye, also known as conjunctivitis, which is definitely common in daycare, school and beyond. And yes – adults can get it too. Disclaimer: this is not medical advice nor should…
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My Experience with Postpartum Anxiety
I am now over a year postpartum, which is crazy to me. It still feels like I gave birth a few weeks ago! Thankfully not in a physical or emotional sense, just in a nostalgic way. I am going to do a full update on being one year postpartum and my fitness journey like I…
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Daycare Outbreaks: Roseola
I’ve written before about Hand Foot and Mouth (actually more than once), which is a common often daycare-related illness, but have you heard of Roseola? Many haven’t, but it’s another common and thankfully very mild one your little might pick up. Let’s learn a bit more about it, its management and more. Psst – if…
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The Science Behind… Vitamin B
Vitamin B… is more complex than it seems! Did you know there are multiple B vitamins that constitute a “Vitamin B complex”?! Lets take a look at Vitamin B, the science behind it and what science says it can actually help you with (and what it might not). Disclaimer: this is not medical advice, information…
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Making It Through a Stomach Bug: Tips for Survival
My tips for surviving Hand, Foot and Mouth has been a really popular post for me – so I decided to make another due to recent experiences. Stomach virus/stomach bug. Last Friday, we were away for Ukranian Christmas celebrations – 3 hours away from home. And James started vomiting. I could not figure out how…
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The Science Behind: Hyaluronic Acid (incl. a SPONSORED product review of Pascoe’s Hyaluronic Body Serum)
New series alert: informed choices is certainly not done and I want to keep chipping away at it in the new year, but I also want to bring a more widely applicable series to the blog. “The Science Behind” is going to be an evidence review of common products, medications, vitamins, supplements and more so…
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Is it a cold, the flu or a stomach bug?
This is a post I’ve been meaning to do for a long while – and with cold season approaching and some time on my hands to get it done, here it finally is. I commonly hear people refer to a stomach bug (more formally known as gastroenteritis) as the “stomach flu“. Hell, before I went…
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Correlation VS. Causation (Back to Basics: Tools We Need to Understand Health Information)
I recently saw a really distasteful and misinformed post on Instagram – ok I realize that could refer to like millions of IG posts really, but there was one in particular which I do not want to link (so it doesn’t get more reach) that used the word correlation to reference a relationship between two…
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Why does my baby need their hearing checked? {Informed Choices: Infant Hearing Program}
Are you expecting or recently had a baby? Then you might have heard that your baby will need a hearing test when they are born. If you deliver in a hospital setting (and perhaps in some birth centers), this will be offered during your stay. If you give birth at a hospital and are discharged…
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