Sprout Pediatrics

11/29/2025

Small and local makes a difference! 🏡not 💸!

If only HALF of Salem’s population spent $40 on gifts from local businesses this year, we would put $3.6 MILLION back into our local economy! Directly into the hands of families from our own community! Guys idk I think we should try it 👀

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10/20/2025

This is why we ask moms to get the Tdap vaccine towards the end of pregnancy; it gives the baby mom's antibodies to help fight Whooping Cough until babies are old enough to get their first shot at 2 months.

We ask everyone else who will be around newborns to boost their Tdap to protect the baby because adults and teens are the reservoir for pertussis but the babies are the ones who get so, so sick.

The treatment for pertussis has to be started before we even suspect it because the beginning looks like every other cold. Except in the babies who get diagnosed in the first few days of pertussis because they're in the ICU.

10/12/2025

The vast piles of money generated by social media and AI (I'm fully aware of the irony of posting this here) that are directed at politics to keep people who want to regulate them out of power are evidence of the fact that voters DO have power. But only if we're paying attention and talking about it. Protecting our kids from YouTube autoplay is one thing, but AI is hard for adults to spot, and is EVERYWHERE.

Supervising kids on media these days is a full-time job. I can't keep up. I barely stay ahead of the 'updates' that reset my filters every few weeks. It takes so much longer to figure out what's AI vs real than it does to have 'content' handed me, or my kid, that we NEED regulation of this industry before it becomes uncontrollable.

Please read between the Meta lines, keep tabs on where your kids are online, and watch where the money flows in local and state elections.

09/26/2025

Thanks to thepediatricianmom for a really nice explanation of the tylenol-autism announcement. What makes science valid is repetition, corroboration, and validation of the same outcomes across multiple large controlled studies. The frequency with which an article ends with 'more research is needed' can be maddening. Well-designed, large studies carry more weight than any meta-analysis or small study could, and there is almost never a single, independent cause for anything, especially something as complex as autism.

The amount of fear, guilt and work piled on parents over the last week for spurious claims is unconscionable.

09/03/2025

I LOVE what I do, and pediatricians pretty much universally do too. Well, the parts where we actually get to take care of kids. And we’ll do the right thing for kids over getting paid for our work. We cover our costs giving vaccines, I sometimes go for weeks without writing a prescription, and when I do they’re almost always the same five generic medications. Big pharma doesn’t exactly love me, and I don’t talk to or get my info from reps.

06/14/2025

02/07/2025

Email from Oregon Family Support Network Upcoming Support Group, Respite and Training Opportunities. COMMUNITY CONNECT January 2025 Oregon Family Support Network (OFSN) is a statewide organization pro

03/24/2024

So much easier to use in this form than in a list! 🙏🏻🤓😁🙏🏻

This was crowd sourced from parents--share with a friend who needs it!

35 Frequently-Used Special Education Acronyms Every Parent Should Learn (PDF Chart)

https://adayinourshoes.com/special-education-acronyms/

01/25/2024