Wolfson Children's Hospital
Wolfson Children’s Hospital is the only hospital just for kids in the North Florida and South Georgia region, providing care for children of all ages with congenital heart conditions, cancer, neurological disorders, orthopedic conditions, behavioral health disorders, and more.
Should Your Child See a Pediatric Specialist?
We all want what’s best for our children and it’s often a parent’s nature to worry. When it comes to having concerns about a child’s emotional or physical wellbeing, a mom or dad’s instinct...
What’s a Mom to Do about the Flu?
It’s that time of year again when the flu shot signs start popping up around town in doctor’s offices, pharmacies and even in some schools. For many moms, getting one for themselves and their...
Toddlers: Testing Your Patience While Testing Their Boundaries
Whether you’ve experienced it as a parent or not, we’ve all heard about the “terrible twos,” with stories of epic temper tantrums and complete meltdowns in grocery store aisles. The odds of a toddler...
How Much Sleep Does Your Child Really Need?
Whether you have a newborn, a toddler or a 10 year old, a good night’s rest is extremely important for all children. Most parents know that getting a child to go to bed is...
Where You Take Your Child for Emergency Care Matters
When a child is injured, a parent’s immediate instinct is to get help as quickly as possible without always thinking about where the child should go to receive the care he or she needs....
Developmental Milestones: What’s Normal, and When Can Wolfson Children’s Rehabilitation Help Your Child?
Some jokingly say that a parent’s job is to worry, but most parents come equipped with instincts that usually win out when there’s cause for concern. Many find themselves watching how their child moves,...
Saved From Near Drowning: How Ayden Survived
The Vucho family in Lake Asbury owns a pool, and with five boys in the house ranging in age from newborn to 10 years old, parents Randy and Brandi took a number of precautions...
Why Immunizations Save Lives
Over the last 100 years, immunizations have become one of modern medicine’s greatest success stories. With the introduction of vaccines in the twentieth century that provided protection against some of the most common and deadly childhood illness like measles and mumps, polio, and smallpox, the last several generations...
When A Broken Bone Is More Than A Broken Bone
Like many 9-year-olds, Orange Park’s Cameron Balczon is full of energy, fearless and loves all kinds of sports. He plays and watches basketball and soccer, has played baseball, and enjoys swimming, too.
With a boy...
Conjoined Twins Conner and Carter Embraced by Community
Early last year, Michelle Brantley and her fiancé Bryan Mirabal were just getting used to the ins and outs of parenting with their eight-month-old son, Gage. They’d been through the sleepless nights, feedings, and...
How to Select the Right Toys for Your Child with Special Needs
It’s the time of year when toy shopping is at the top of most of our to-do lists, which means many of us are scrambling around looking for the perfect doll or game for...
Saving Baby Phillip :: The Importance of a Pediatric ER
When 10-month-old Phillip Simmons gets to an age when he can understand, his mother Mary Hunstein has a story to tell him about the day his life was saved when he was only four...