Raising Healthy Children
Starts With Knowing Why
Evidence-based pediatric knowledge, plain-language health guides, and the thinking behind the care — written by a board-certified pediatrician with 38,000+ hours of training.
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Infant Nutrition
Goat Milk vs. Cow Milk Formula
A Pediatrician, a Sister in Paris, and the Science We Leaned On During the height of COVID, when the world felt fragile…
From the Files of Dr. Marie
When Fever Meets School Policy: A Real Telemedicine Conversation
When Fever Meets School Policy A real telemedicine conversation — and why the contagion cycle keeps repeating. A mother called me recently.…
From the Files of Dr. Marie
Hydration: The Lifeblood of Healing in a Sick Child
When your child is sick, the kitchen table is no longer the priority. The water bottle is. There is a particular heaviness…
From the Files of Dr. Marie
Beyond the Blue Light: Navigating Screen Time and the Developing Brain
The meltdown after the iPad comes away isn't defiance. It's neurochemistry. Here's what's really happening in your child's brain — and a…
Holistic Pediatrics
Beyond the Pill: A Holistic Approach to Pediatric Care
In a world where “a pill for every ill” has become the medical standard, it’s easy to feel like we’re only scratching…
Pediatric Video & Audio Library
Tylenol, Pregnancy, and Fever: Sorting Through the Facts With Compassion
Pregnancy is both fragile and fierce. You are building a life inside of you, and with that miracle comes the weight of…
Direct Primary Care
The Hidden Costs of Insurance-Based Pediatrics
Systems reveal their philosophy through their design. Concealment prioritizes control. Transparency prioritizes trust. When valuables are hidden in furniture, we assume danger…
Direct Primary Care
Direct Primary Care vs Insurance: A Clearer Model
The flickering stair and stick figures are not moving. Your brain is. High-contrast edges, shifting gradients, tiny eye movements called saccades. The…
Newborn Care
Understanding Purple Crying
Crying is a normal and important part of your baby’s development. Some babies, however, go through a specific phase of increased crying…
Pediatric Mental Health
The Second Brain: Why the Gut-Brain Connection is the Missing Link in Pediatric Mental Health
I remember speaking with a mother whose seven-year-old son, Leo, was struggling. His teacher had noted he was increasingly “zoned out” during…
Common Symptoms
Listening Closer: Why an Ear Tug Doesn’t Always Mean an Ear Infection
If you are reading this at 3:00 AM while your toddler intermittently pulls at their left ear and whimpers, I want you…
Child Safety
When the Pool Beckons, Vigilance Must Follow
There is something about water that calls to children. It is vast but knowable, dangerous but inviting—a thing to be mastered, to…
Infant Nutrition
Hands Before Hearts: Getting to Know Antenatal Hand Expression
I spend my clinic days watching parents make space in their lives for a person they have not yet met. Cribs get…
Direct Primary Care
Breaking the Cycle: How Rising Star Pediatrics Puts Children Before Insurance Codes
There is a quiet tragedy in how industrialized medicine today treats children—not as full human beings with stories and struggles, but as…
Pediatric Mental Health
The Quiet Crisis in Our Schools—and the Doctors Who Can Fix It
There is a quiet war being waged in the hallways of our schools. Not the kind waged with fists or words, but…
Common Symptoms
Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye)
The other night, a mother reached out to me over video. Her child’s eye had suddenly turned red and swollen. There was…
Well-Child Visits
Comprehensive Health Assessments at Rising Star Pediatrics
At Rising Star Pediatrics, we believe in the weight of a child’s story—how their health, their growth, their very breath, is intertwined…
Local Pediatric Care
General Pediatric Care for Traveling Families in West Palm Beach, Florida
Wherever You Go, Your Child’s Health Should Follow The sun drapes itself over West Palm Beach like a golden quilt, the air…
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