Yoga For Mama & Baby

Health Benefits of Yoga for Mama and Baby By Jennifer Yoon, RDN/LDN, Breastfeeding Educator, Pediatric Alliance — St. Clair     Though often overlooked as an exercise for weight management and cardiovascular health, yoga is an effective way to build a...

Is Even A Little Too Much?

  It should be obvious to anyone reading a pediatric blog that drinking alcohol during pregnancy is a great big no-no. Nearly three years ago, we learned the following from the American Academy of Pediatrics: >  Alcohol-related birth defects and developmental...

An Ounce Of Prevention…

  Last week I attended a fascinating forum presented by The Atlantic magazine entitled “Cancer in the Community — Pittsburgh.” Journalist Steve Clemons, who writes for The Atlantic and moderates these events, has been traveling to regions of the...

Preterm Births Are Up

  Last month on The PediaBlog, we applauded declining teen birth rates reported by the American Academy of Pediatrics while also considering the reasons why the solution to this problem remains elusive: Poverty and lack of education have long been the key...

Lowering Teen Birth Rates

Declining teen pregnancy rates have been noticed and applauded here before on The PediaBlog. Still, as we discovered nearly two years ago, not all the news is good: The bad news? The U.S. continues to lead all industrialized western nations in the number of teen...