ByDr. Marie Jean-Baptiste Reading Time: 2 minutes The flickering stair and stick figures are not moving. Your brain is. High-contrast edges, shifting gradients, tiny eye movements called saccades. The visual system tries…
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ByDr. Marie Jean-Baptiste Reading Time: 2 minutes Crying is a normal and important part of your baby’s development. Some babies, however, go through a specific phase of increased crying called PURPLE Crying….
ByDr. Marie Jean-Baptiste Reading Time: 2 minutes There is something about water that calls to children. It is vast but knowable, dangerous but inviting—a thing to be mastered, to be played with,…
ByDr. Marie Jean-Baptiste Reading Time: 4 minutes I spend my clinic days watching parents make space in their lives for a person they have not yet met. Cribs get assembled, playlists curated,…
ByDr. Marie Jean-Baptiste Reading Time: 3 minutes There is a quiet tragedy in how industrialized medicine today treats children—not as full human beings with stories and struggles, but as entries in a…
ByDr. Marie Jean-Baptiste Reading Time: 4 minutes There is a quiet war being waged in the hallways of our schools. Not the kind waged with fists or words, but the kind that…
ByDr. Marie Jean-Baptiste Reading Time: 2 minutes The other night, a mother reached out to me over video. Her child’s eye had suddenly turned red and swollen. There was some discharge. There…
ByDr. Marie Jean-Baptiste Reading Time: 4 minutes At Rising Star Pediatrics, we believe in the weight of a child’s story—how their health, their growth, their very breath, is intertwined with the life…
ByDr. Marie Jean-Baptiste Reading Time: 4 minutes Wherever You Go, Your Child’s Health Should Follow The sun drapes itself over West Palm Beach like a golden quilt, the air thick with salt…