Health + Wellness

According to Time Magazine, nearly 70% of Americans receive a routine medical checkup, while 90% of Americans believe it is important. Clearly, people value knowing how things are going. Routine checkups can be helpful to learn what we don't...

For as long as I can remember, I've loved books and reading. My parents have a photo of me as a toddler, asleep with a board book spread over my face. By 3rd grade, I had already been through...

  Let’s face it-- children are harbingers of germs. And when they come home from school with a cough or cold, it can quickly turn into a health crisis for the whole family. Vikash Modi, M.D., a family medicine physician at Piedmont...

Summer can be hard. You are running back and forth between activities, or trying to find activities to keep your kids busy. But, it is also a time to lounge by the pool or maybe go on vacation. And...

I am a reader. A nerdy, book-loving, writing-obsessed, former-thesaurus-carrying, wannabe-author.  Except then I became a mom to three precious, demanding, time-consuming little humans and people would say hey, you should read this book and I would basically laugh until I cried....

I have a vivid memory of when my struggle with an extreme fear of vomiting began. It was October of 2014. My husband and I were about to leave our first baby (8 months at the time) in the...

You know that drippy, snotty nose all of our toddlers have, literally all winter long? That rumble-y cough that sounds like our 2-year-olds have a pack-a-day cigarette habit? I am three children deep into this parenting gig, and typically...

Happy Spring! I am hoping the cold weather is gone and the warmer weather is here to stay for good. One of my favorite things to do as the weather gets warmer is to spend time outside and take...

When you have little kids and you want to spend time with them, all you have to do is:  1) Go to the bathroom; 2) Lay down for a nap; or 3) Get in the shower.  Within seconds, anyone under the...

My second pregnancy kicked me in the butt. As excited as I was about welcoming baby #2 into our family, the little person inside of me was zapping all my energy and only craved hamburgers and milkshakes smoothies. I...