I like to think of myself as someone who generally has her sh*t together. Someone who is skilled at multitasking, who keeps her cool when things get stressful. Which is how I found myself at Target last week staring at one cart full of children squirting poop and tears and another piled high with cartons …
Category: motherhood
The Hunger Games: my article for JAMA
It took two years of writing drafts, editing, setting them aside and then starting over, but I was finally able to capture the stress and guilt I experienced when I had trouble nursing my first son and the ways it affected my practice as a pediatrician. It appeared in yesterday's issue of the Journal of …
Keeping Kids Safe in Summer
I'm so pleased to have an article I wrote appear in the Huffington Post! But more importantly, I'm thrilled to have the opportunity to spread the word about how dangerous it is to leave a child (or pet!) unattended in the car for ANY length of time, and how this happens by accident more often than …
The Growth Curve 