Just last weekend, our family was running errands and shuffling children to activities, as is our usual Saturday routine. One of my boys was particularly irritable…
Alison Solomon, RN, is the nurse at the Get Well Place at LeafSpring School at Three Chopt, where she cares for mildly ill children, as well as children from the community who are too sick to go to their own school or childcare. She uses her sixteen years of nursing experience to consults with teachers and staff about healthy habits to teach children. She and her husband have three children and are also foster parents.
Almost every baby will experience diaper rash at some point in the diaper-wearing years. Rashes range from mild to severe and can cause a slight annoyance or a massive upset…
Climb on and we’ll all go together!” Golf carts aren’t just for the course anymore. Leave it to parents to find a new use for the golf cart: the mover…
When I was single and a 20-something-year-old pediatric nurse, a child in my care needed a foster home. I loved him, and for about fifteen minutes, I considered it, before…
We look forward to so many of baby’s firsts, but there are some firsts that aren’t so fun. It’s bound to happen at some point: Your baby isn’t acting like…
We don’t usually associate the phrase “history repeats itself” with illness, but sometimes diseases we thought were ancient history – or at least so uncommon they slide off the radar…
