Newtown Center Pediatrics

11/05/2025

Wowza!! Enjoy The Super Full Moon Tonight🧡

11/05/2025

We see you💙 We are here for you

I see you. I see the exhaustion in your eyes, the weight in your chest, the tiny miracle in your arms who doesn’t yet know how much you’ve given to keep them safe. You’ve traded sleep for feedings, comfort for sacrifice, and quiet moments for cries that only you can soothe.

This season is heavy. It’s messy. It’s lonely in ways that words can’t quite reach. But it’s not a reflection of your strength, it’s proof of it. The tears, the worry, the guilt, the love that feels too big for your body…all of it means you care more than you can express.

You are doing it. Even when it feels like you’re not.
Even when your hair’s undone, your coffee’s cold, and your body doesn’t feel like your own.
You are showing up, and that matters more than perfection ever could.

Take a deep breath.
You are not failing…
you’re healing, learning, becoming.
And one day soon, you’ll look back and realize you were never just surviving… you were building something sacred.

Sending love to every mama in her midnight moment. You are seen. You are loved. You are enough. 🩷

11/05/2025

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11/05/2025

When a child walks into school, they’re carrying two backpacks.
One is visible — filled with notebooks, textbooks, maybe a lunchbox.
But the other is invisible — and that’s the one that really matters.

In that second backpack are all the emotions they bring from home. The little victories from yesterday. Their fears. The weight of expectations they’re trying to meet. Sometimes, it’s packed with a parent’s morning hug and the memory of a smile at the door. Other times, it’s heavy with the echo of an argument before the bus arrived.

Inside are feelings of belonging — or loneliness. Confidence — or worry.
And tucked deep inside are the things they don’t have words for yet, the things they wish someone would notice, just so their backpack could feel a little lighter.

P.S.
That second backpack? You can’t see it.
But if you look closely — you’ll recognize it in their eyes, their silence, or the way they act.

11/05/2025

According to the National Epilepsy Foundation, 1 in 10 people will have a seizure and 1 in 26 will develop epilepsy during their lifetime. Do you know what to do if someone is having a seizure? As part of National Epilepsy Awareness Month, the National Epilepsy Foundation has provided helpful instruction. Check out the image. https://www.epilepsy.com/

11/05/2025

It takes all of us — parents and drivers working together — to keep our kids SAFE! 🚌⤵️

11/05/2025

The U.S. eliminated measles in 2000, but rising cases are putting that status at risk. Over 1,600 infections have been confirmed this year, and experts say the true number may be higher. This week, an expert commission is meeting to review the latest measles data in the Americas. Canada is expected to be a top focus, with ongoing outbreaks since October 2024, while the U.S. and Mexico have outbreaks that began in January and February of 2025. Read more at https://publications.aap.org/aapnews/news/33659/With-measles-elimination-status-at-risk?searchresult=1

11/05/2025

💗thank you from all of us

Crisis Intervention & Support Team Member Spotlight: Abbey Clements

“A team like this has been talked about, asked for, and needed for decades. Until we as a nation choose to end this public health crisis, educators and school staff must receive support from those who truly understand — those who grasp the challenges, the grief, and the courage it takes to move forward in the wake of gun violence and the persistent fear of it.”

Abbey Clements is a co-founder and the Executive Director of Teachers Unify. She taught for over 30 years and has been a gun violence prevention activist since enduring the Sandy Hook School tragedy with her 2nd grade students in 2012.

Abbey couldn’t be more proud to be part of this incredible team.

Team contact information:
response@teachersunify.org
203-296-3689
🩷☮️📚📓

11/05/2025

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Kangaroo mother care combines skin-to-skin contact and exclusive breastfeeding.

For preterm babies, these vital cuddles
💕 improve survival
💕 reduce infections
💕 provide warmth, comfort and love

11/05/2025

Book Club Pick for Our Families wanting to understand blood cancers❤️❤️❤️❤️

11/05/2025

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has recalled several lots lisdexamfetamine dimesylate capsules, a generic form of Vyvanse, after testing found they failed to dissolve properly.

11/05/2025

This week we celebrate allied health professionals—lab techs, therapists, radiologists, dietitians, and many more—who keep CT healthy behind the scenes. 👏 THANK YOU!!!