Newborn Care: Eat, Read, Sleep
At Thrive Pediatrics, we know that new parents can feel overwhelmed with the amount of information there is about newborn care. We hope to provide some simple but impactful information about 3 key areas of [...]
Newborn Care: To Circumcise Or Not To Circumcise
That Is The question! It was a typical day in a pediatric office. Ear infections, well-child checks and a few circumcisions to perform. For this particular family, this beautiful boy was their first and the [...]
Preventing Meningitis in Teenagers
Why does my kid need this vaccine? At Thrive Pediatrics we recommend our patients receive the Menactra vaccine at age 11 with a booster shot at age 16. Why is this specific vaccine important you [...]
Newborn Care: Eyes, Thighs and Lies
Rounding on Newborns Dr. Taylor and I currently rotate call every other week. We take any and all calls after hours and we cover the newborn nursery rounding in the St. Luke’s Boise and St. [...]
Newborn Care: Baby’s First Check-Up
Our Mission and Newborns Our mission at Thrive Pediatrics is to inspire children and those caring for them to thrive. This begins at that very first newborn check-up in clinic. In general there are three [...]
The Smoky Air and Your Kid’s Health
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="The Smoky Air and Your Kid's Health"][vc_video link="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrPMPr30EHo"][vc_column_text]What’s Happening In our neck of the woods there is a lot of smoke out there due to wildfires. The smoke brings gasses and fine particles that [...]
Happy Anniversary!
Thrive by the Numbers We are thrilled to share our anniversary with you. It has been an incredible year. We have been very fortunate due to our patient and community support to have survived and [...]
5 Things Parents Can Do When They Feel Angry
It's Common and Manageable Every parent experiences moments of anger when dealing with their children. This is common but can lead to relationship struggles between parent and child as well as trigger mental health problems [...]
Cucumbers Coping with Anxiety
A while back, I saw a meme that said “They say the body is 60-70% water…so basically we are all cucumbers with anxiety!” In a time of a global pandemic, this is truer than ever. [...]
Becoming Comfortable with the Uncomfortable:
Thrive speaks on what it means to be anti-racist: Recent events have awakened me. I am deeply saddened by the death of Mr. George Floyd. I feel horrified as to how he died. I recognize [...]
