The best Pediatrics books: Reddit reviews

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Well, Polio gets brought up a lot, but honestly it is great odds compared to a ton of diseases that can cause all sorts of nasty long term effects. Mumps can cause deafness, pertussis can cause pneumonia (early childhood pneumonia is linked to COPD later in life), encephalopathy, and death. Last year we hit a new record for childhood flu deaths of 172 (this is hyperbole).

I am not telling people what to do, but as a nurse, get your children vaccinated. Don't be lazy and live in a fucking echo chamber. If you distrust vaccines, do the research. If that doesn't convince you, talk to someone who experiences what happens when you don't vaccinate.

Also: the rate of autism diagnosis increased for two reasons: people have more access to medical professionals to make these diagnosis (prior to that many people with possible autism went undiagnosed). Two, professionals are more apt to correctly diagnose these issues with more experience. People forget we used to chain mental health patients up in asylums not that long ago. Humanity always needs a scapegoat.

Also read The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down it really will open your eyes to how different cultures view diseases and the impact parents have on their children's health outcomes. No, don't blame the parents after reading it.

You may want to check out the non-fiction book, When The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down (https://www.amazon.com/Spirit-Catches-You-Fall-Down/dp/0374533407)

Story of a Hmong family's interactions with the American healthcare system. (It's more compelling than that might sound...) I think it was a bestseller when it was published ~20 years ago.

>Bad habits are hard to break, and I want pur daughter to be happy and healthy.

You cannot form bad habits in children at this age. For the next 18 months at least, you two are in absolute control of what she eats, and the only habit you might form is that she'll be picky and prefer sweeter foods.

You have a hang-up: you think that infant time is like other parts of life. It's not. Your baby is a healthy weight and it's almost impossible to overfeed a child at this age. You need to calm down and read a book about child health and wellness.

This book, from the American Academy of Pediatrics, is outstanding: Birth to Age 5

Read it, and calm down. Your wife isn't doing anything terrible, but you're poisoning your marriage. Read, and be cool.

PS - freaking out about nursing your child after vaccinations is ridiculous. You should definitely apologise for that.

The Vaccine-Friendly Plan by Paul Thomas and Jennifer Margulis

>...a slower, evidence-based vaccine schedule that calls for only one aluminum-containing shot at a time important questions to ask about your childs first few weeks, first years, and beyond advice about how to talk to health care providers when you have concerns the risks associated with opting out of vaccinations...

Wall of text and "childs" [sic] in the original. There are glowing testimonials from Jay Gordon and Lyn Redwood. This is only not anti-vaccination by dint of the time-honored paper-thin disguises of "just asking questions" and "offering alternatives."

if you expose a cat to a lot of weird things as a kitten, they're more used to it as an adult cat. like baths, strangers, car rides. riding on shoulders.

no, the cat doesn't really need lifelong baths, this could maybe even hurt the cat's coat if it happens a lot. But, kittens need to be shown a lot of stuff, there's a small kernel in that joke "all cats have aspergers".

I had the best intentions to stay keto/low-carb during the first trimester, but my nausea was so crippling and the only thing that I could keep down was salt & vinegar chips. So I lived on those and sugar free vitamin water for basically 8 weeks. The remainder of my pregnancy was low-carb once my Hyperemesis Gravidarum subsided.

Check out the book Real Food for Pregnancy - There is a lot of science showing that you really only need about 50g of glucose while the baby is in utero. After that, you can eat as low-carb as your body feels comfortable eating. (And as low-carb as your doctors are okay with you being given your medical situation.)

If you want to learn more about a good, safe vaccination schedule, I highly recommend Dr Paul Thomas's book The Vaccine-Friendly Plan

It's a lighter, more spaced out schedule than the CDC one.

There's also a 9 page pdf with a summary of the plan.

I am happy you are coming around and are determined to tackle this properly. My son struggles with inattentive ADHD and there have been times when it was such a struggle for him to do anything. I went out and did research and after we started tackling it his teachers within months were seeing a difference.

The main resource my wife and I rely on is a book called Finally Focused which gave us a way to approach it methodically and without jumping straight to the drugs. Learning about magnesium deficiency and things like that was eye-opening and made the ADHD a lot less scary, that a large part of it is fixable and that the brain is not "broken".

God is good and it sounds like He has been pretty awesome in helping you live a good and productive life. I pray that you continue to find your strength him Him as you find the next steps to take down this path.

Are you aware of the "Vaccine Friendly Plan" by Dr. Paul Thomas?

It's a lighter, more spaced out schedule than the CDC's and he seems to have a much lower rate of autism among his patients than the national average.

Might be worth a look. There is a summary of his vaccine schedule here (pdf)

Came here to say this — Finally Focused by James Greenblatt, MD is specifically about the nutritional deficiencies correlated with ADHD in both children and adults. Cover has kids on it (but it applies to anyone), cheesy subtitle, but chock full of info including regarding what to test.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0451496590/

This is the manual for caring for a child. Every question you have is answered here. It is the best

Caring for Your Baby and Young Child, 7th Edition: Birth to Age 5

Good luck!

My husband purchased Caring for your Baby and Young Child it's put out by the American Academy of Pediatrics. I wasn't overly interested when he ordered it but it starts in the "Preparing for a new baby" stage through toddler years and appears to cover everything I could think of. Seems like a thorough resource.

Kind of OT, but I own these two children's books:

• All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome

• All Dogs Have ADHD

I'm not a doctor - and I know r/nootropics is all about giving each other supplement advice and all - but this is your child so I'm hesitant to say. One of the articles I read on omega 3s + kids linked to this book which looks legit. Being a few years old it might even be available as an ebook from your library.

Hope that helps! Your kid is lucky to have such a proactive mom.

I'd recommend reading their book. Drs. Eric Kossof and Mackenzie Cervenka from a Johns Hopkins wrote it. It's their entire program:

The Ketogenic and Modified Atkins Diets: Treatments for Epilepsy and Other Disorders https://www.amazon.com/dp/1936303949/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_HTWW10NDSVBGD2V9A0VQ

The only things I can stomach right now are bread and cheese, potatoes, cheerios and fruit. And Ensure. My diet is typically 75% plant based (lots of veggies, whole grains, legumes) so its radically different from what i'm used to. FWIW the same thing happened to me in my first pregnancy and after about 16 weeks I was able to go back to my normal diet with no problems. If you or your husband wants to get scientific about it, I've heard good things about Real Food for Pregnancy, which is evidenced based nutrition for pregnant people. Even this author, who is a nutrition expert, says that the first trimester is all about survival!

Check out the book Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults. It has lots of information on being twice exceptional. The author also wrote a shorter article here, which is more focused on misdiagnosis.

there’s an incredible book called

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (FSG Classics) by Anne Fadiman (2012-04-24)

it discusses the intersection between disability , culture and the american medical system.

many “spiritual” people in the past had concurrent physical / mental illnesses which were seen as supernatural powers.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374533407/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_b2WoFbF55ABHY

> Keep baby monitors and other products well out of reach. Your baby may be able to reach the cord before you realize it, which can lead to strangulation.

> Keep baby monitor cords at least 3 feet away from the crib and do not place any item with a cord near the crib or under the crib mattress.

"Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5" by David L. Hill MD FAAP -

Caring for your baby and young child by American Academy of pediatrics : https://www.amazon.com/Caring-Your-Baby-Young-Child/dp/1984817701/ref=asc_df_1984817701/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=385575018613&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8254316888478716302&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&a...

Solid Starts app, their website for articles, their Instagram (for starting solids). All evidence based

A nutritionist suggested I read the book "Real Food for Pregnancy: The Science and Wisdom of Optimal Prenatal Nutrition." It has good suggestions about how to eat to for optimal mom and baby health.

If you want to start, though, why not start now? Why wait a few weeks?

I don't want to talk too much and sound overbearing, but I found this book really helpful when trying to understand what I should be eating/not eating when pregnant: https://www.amazon.ca/Real-Food-Pregnancy-Prenatal-Nutrition/dp/0986295043

In my experience it's really hard to eat when you're pregnant sometimes as there can be so many aversions, so do what you can and be gentle with yourselves inshallah

I’m a couple weeks ahead of you, these two books so far have been helpful. So many myths out there and felt like we’re head of the curve by figuring out diet and then some falsity checks

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Expecting Better: Why the... https://www.amazon.com/dp/0143125702?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Lived experience, mom experience, and licensed psychologist here (but not YOUR psychologist).

This was the most helpful starting point resource on this for me: https://www.amazon.com/Misdiagnosis-Diagnoses-Gifted-Children-Adults/dp/1935067435

You need to look into twice exceptionality (2E). My daughter was diagnosed as gifted, and it masked her ADHD-PI in her neuro-psych test. Puzzles keep her interest because she enjoys the challenge, and the signs of inattentiveness weren't showing up on a puzzle-based assessment. Neither does a messy room or constantly lost items at school, insomnia or lack of impulse control/self-regulation. Giftedness does not disappear in adulthood, so I would suspect yours is a similar situation. I found this book useful: https://smile.amazon.com/Misdiagnosis-Diagnoses-Gifted-Children-Adults/dp/1935067435/

I found the other book. I haven;t looked thorugh it yet.

https://www.amazon.com/Misdiagnosis-Diagnoses-Gifted-Children-Adults/dp/1935067435

I'm DMing you.

If your kid likes reading books (well, being read to, I guess), try this book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1433801310

It did wonders for us when we were potty training our oldest. It also has some helpful tips for parents in the back, too!

u/Necessary-Koala1840

https://www.amazon.com/Misdiagnosis-Diagnoses-Gifted-Children-Adults-dp-1935067435/dp/1935067435/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

This book might be helpful (there is a previous edition used for less $$) The author has several other books on 'gifted' kids that are helpful.

There is a strong correlation between the need for deep convos/getting bored by small talk with higher iq (120 up). I just learned that many "typical" adhd symptoms are similiar to feelings/thoughts and symptoms people with higher iq experience. Also the so called scanner personality. More than 15% of the population have a iq higher than 115, so its not that outlandish to think about it.

Maybe take a look into the topic. I found this book really helpful https://www.amazon.com/Misdiagnosis-Diagnoses-Gifted-Children-Adults/dp/1935067435

Congratulations! The next 8 weeks to hold the secret will feel like forever lol!

I’ve got this , people say it’s the good standard : https://www.amazon.ca/Caring-Your-Baby-Young-Child/dp/1984817701

Also the bump app is fun to follow along together!