Health

I’m having some serious back issues. And, as my son gets older, my back issues seem to be getting worse. See, I love indulging myself and my son by holding and carrying him whenever I can. I don’t think I carry him too much. As a 1 ½ -year-old, he gets plenty of time on his own two feet. But lately, I’ve been finding myself saying, “Love, Mommy can’t pick you up. My back hurts too much.” After doing some research, I found that a good baby/toddler carrier can extend my Eli-carrying days by giving me more back support than my hip can do alone.

Officials, staff and members of the Tulsa community gathered to celebrate the opening of The Children’s Hospital at Saint Francis’s new Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) last month. The new facility is larger, offers more privacy and is more family-friendly than the old NICU at Saint Francis.

While we want our children to be good eaters, to grow “big and strong,” parents whose children suffer from Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) actually have the flip side to this axiom facing them each day.
“Children with Prader-Willi Syndrome are hungry all the time,” said Gretchen Hannefield, mother to Katie, who suffers from the medical disorder. “And their metabolism is about 60 percent that of a normal person’s.”

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