Pediatrics Of Boerne

Due to power outages along with icy weather, our office will be closed today. We are watching the updates and eagerly waiting for power to return and ask for your patience as our office is managing these unprecedented conditions.
Stay warm and safe everyone!

Due to winter weather and icy conditions, our office will be closed today and we will resume regular office hours tomorrow, February the 2nd.
Please stay warm and safe!
PoB

Our office is closed for the Christmas holiday on December 23rd and Monday, December 26th. We will resume regular office hours on December 27th.
Sending all the warmth and wishing all of our PoB families a very Merry Christmas!

Happy thanksgiving everyone!
Our offices will be closed Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to give our staff much needed time off to be with their families.
We resume regular office hours Monday the 28th. We wish everyone a wonderful thanksgiving with their families!
PoB

We have been receiving high volume of calls due to the formula recall announced earlier.

Things to know:
-The formula came from single facility and has been distributed across the US.
-Please look in the article below to see if the exp date or lot numbers match ones you have at home and STOP USING.
-If your child has consumed this formula and is exhibiting symptoms, please contact your Pediatrician, or GI specialist as elemental formula was also involved.
-Formula involved:

ALL SIMILAC that has the following:

🍼the first two digits of the code are 22 through 37; and
🍼the code on the container contains K8, SH or Z2; and
🍼the expiration date is 4-1-2022 (APR 2022) or later.

All Alimentum and EleCare

Products that do not contain the information listed above are NOT impacted. The FDA advisory does not include liquid formula products or any metabolic deficiency nutrition formulas. Consumers should continue to use all products not covered by the advisory.

We hope this information helps.
Please check back for updates,
Your Pediatrician,
Dr.B
https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-warns-consumers-not-use-certain-powdered-infant-formula-produced-abbott-nutritions-facility

FDA Warns Consumers Not to Use Certain Powdered Infant Formula Produced in Abbott Nutrition’s Facility in Sturgis, Michigan The FDA is investigating consumer complaints of Cronobacter sakazakii infections and one consumer complaint of infection of Salmonella Newport potentially linke

Due to inclement weather and impending icy conditions, our office will be closed for in person visits tomorrow, February 3rd. Our staff will be answering calls pending no outages in power. We are expecting to be open regular hours on Friday the 4th.

Sending warm vibes to all of our PoB families and please stay safe!
Pediatrics of Boerne

Wishing all of our PoB families a very merry Christmas!!!

Your Pediatrician,
Dr.B

A friendly reminder to practice gratitude this holiday🎅 season. Many of us have endured changes that are good and bad this year, which means our kids have endured it as well. A great way to build mental stamina 💪🏽 for ourselves and our kids is by practicing gratitude 🙏🏽 .

The best way to teach 👩🏼‍🏫 your child about gratitude is by modeling it. A good example is: I’m so thankful for our beautiful tree, I’m so lucky to enjoy the pretty lights and ornaments. Another example: I am so excited to see our family soon, I’m so thankful to spend time with them and share yummy food!

By not forcing our children to say they are thankful but by being(by verbalizing)thankful in front of them, we are teaching them a strong skill. It also helps kids navigate tough times by taking mental stock of what is going well and is good in their current situation.
I’m always thankful for a safe,healthy and happy holiday season🎄 with all of our wonderful PoB families!
Your Pediatrician,
Dr.B

Happy Thanksgiving to all our PoB families and community!

We are thankful for many things this year but to list a few: all of our wonderful families and their new additions(👶🏻🍼), our staff—who have come in daily and never called in last minute, their dedication, health, and lastly thankful for our growth. We are truly blessed this holiday!

We also want to make a special note that we’ve undergone some growth along with unusually high levels of infectious diseases this season. We try our best to get everyone seen to avoid urgent care(especially during the week). This usually meant longer wait times on busy days(Mondays, Fridays, day before holiday closures). Inspite of this, our families have shown us patience and kindness when seeing that we are working around the clock these past few months. We know it’s a trying time for our Parents with sick children. Thank you to everyone that has shared a kind word, said thank you, brought us treats and coffee to cheer us on!
At the risk of sounding redundant, we really are thankful and blessed by our PoB community!!

We are closed Thursday and Friday for some much needed rest and will be back in the office on Monday, ready to take care of your family with renewed vigor!
Your Pediatrician,
Dr.B

Meet the Staff Monday!
I am so very pleased to introduce Austin to all of our PoB families. Several of you have been helped by Austin these past couple of weeks. Austin recently relocated to Boerne/Fair Oak, Texas from North Carolina(which is where I grew up and went to undergrad: Go Deacs!).
Austin has beeen a tremendous help to our growing practice, and has helped implement new hippa compliant communications system in office, removed quite a bit of admin work off my hands and has been all around pleasure to have in the office! If you notice some new movies playing in the waiting room, you’ll have to ask Austin about it🥰 Please welcome our new addition as we have some temporary changes happening to get ready for Vanessa to take her Maternity leave.
Any tips for Vanessa as she will soon be a Mom of three will be welcomed from our expert PoB parents!! 🥰🤪
As always,
Your Pediatrician,
Dr.B

To all our PoB parents using any of the HIPP, Holle, Kendamil and some other European formulas, please note they are no longer FDA approved. While breastmilk and formula tends to be low in iron, these formulas were particularly shown to have lower than acceptable levels to meet the nutritional requirements for your infant. Please stop using these formulas, switch to any regular term ones that do meet these requirements such as enfamil or similac. If you have questions about any organic formula, please reach out to our office via portal or messaging system, we can also do quick televisit for any formula w/ special requirements.

Please pass this info onto any friends or family members as well! We are striving to keep up with current reccs and guidelines to best meet your baby's needs!

Your pediatrician,
Dr.B

https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/able-groupe-recalling-products-labeled-infant-formula-formulas-have-insufficient-iron-levels

Able Groupe Recalling Products Labeled as Infant Formula Formulas Have Insufficient Iron Levels as Per Requirements for Infant Formula in The U.S., and Products Do Not Meet Other FDA Requirements Able Groupe announced today it is recalling certain products used as infant formulas. The recalled products are infant formulas (i.e., products intended as a complete or partial substitute for human milk for children 12 months old and younger), but the required pre-market notifications for these new

Wishing all of our PoB students a very happy first day of school!!!

Here’s hoping some of your before and after pictures do not resemble this! 🤣

https://www.boredpanda.com/before-after-first-day-at-school/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

27 Hilarious Pics Of Kids Before & After Their First Day Of School I don't remember my first day at school, but judging by the expressions of these kids, they're sure going to remember theirs...

Happy Friday everyone! We had a ONEderful week celebrating our one year anniversary—and this included birthday celebrations with the first baby(and first patient) that our office had the privilege of seeing!
Happy birthday sweet S! 🎉🎂🥳
We love you and look forward to many more milestones together! 🥰

We are so thankful for all the treats so many parents have dropped off for us in the past couple of weeks! Thank you for spoiling us and we sure love our families and community!

Pictured: farm fresh eggs(I’m so tempted to get chickens😆) and a beautiful charcuterie board! Not pictures: cookies, homemade lemon bars and pretzels and candy and flowers!!
We love our POB families! 🥰

Dr.B

Happy Mother’s Day to all the hard working mommas, we see how you all have stepped up over the past year!!
Wishing everyone a wonderful Mother’s Day!
Dr.B

We love our sweet families and community! Check out all the amazing women in this months edition!

Hollyn was so excited to see that Dr.B was featured on the cover of the newest issue of .lifestyle Have you checked out the May issue yet? Lots of amazing women are featured!

Dr.Joy forgave me for being late to my appointment and soon after uttered the words “you definitely have a fever.” 🤣

All jokes aside, Mom shared that Joy wanted to be a actor or a doctor one day and I made her promise that she would use these pictures on her graduation 👩‍🎓 slides when the time came🥰. Kids begin to have ideas of who or what they want to be when they grow up from a very young age. Our job as parents is to just make sure they continue to believe they can be anything they want to be! 👨‍💼👩🏻‍🔬🧑‍💼👩🏾‍💼🧑🏾‍💻👨‍💻👮🏼‍♂️👮🏼👩🏽‍⚕️👨🏻‍⚕️🕴🤹‍♀️🤹🏻‍♂️🪂⛷🏋🏻‍♀️🏊🏽‍♂️🧑‍⚖️👨🏾‍⚖️

Happy Thursday,
Your Pediatrician,
Dr.B

Nail care tips:

Nail 💅trimming for your infant can be intimidating as a parent, so here are some tips:

-trim after a bath 🛀 when baby is relaxed and nails are soft
-choose appropriate clippers or files made for 👶🏻
-pick a area with good lighting ☀️and get comfortable
-push back the skin of the finger and get the clipper under the nail and clip
-babies kick frequently, so best time to trim toes are when baby is napping 😴
-should you accidentally cut the skin, stop the bleeding with pressure, apply some OTC antibiotic ointment and cover with bandaid🩹 if needed
-DO NOT bite nails off, peel nails off, you may cause an infection or damage the nail bed

Happy mani/pedi to all the parents!
Your Pediatrician,
Dr.B

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We love living in and being a business in our beautiful small town! Check out this feature about Boerne in Southern Living Magazine!

https://www.southernliving.com/travel/texas/boerne-tx?fbclid=IwAR1R7UPCWwi62toAIxH9U0grKajdJdcc_6c7au67OaSqFnXqOJwD-jS0pl8

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Umbilical cords:

🛁 only 🧽 sponge baths until the umbilical cord falls off
🛁 keep the umbilical cord dry, if it gets wet, gently dry and leave it alone.
🛁 no need to use alcohol on the cord.
🛁 the cord will shrivel and eventually fall off.
🛁 keep the diaper folded down below the cord
🩸 ok to notice a few drops of blood on the diaper or on the onsie as the stump falls off
🏥

🏥See your pediatrician if you noticed redness around the base of cord, discharge, crying when cord is touched or moved

Hope this helps!
Your pediatrician,
Dr.B

Fever 🥵

I commonly get questions about fever. Here’s a quick run down:

🔥Fever is anything that is 100.4 or higher-for all ages
💊Fever can be treated with Tylenol up to 6 months of age, and Tylenol or Motrin for 6 months and older. Look at the instructions on the box for dosing, or use calculators online.
🔥Rectal temp is the most accurate way to measure for a newborn(and up to 2 months of age), however, if you are uncomfortable doing this and are worried about your baby, see your pediatrician.
👩🏽‍🍼Fever in a baby under 8 weeks of age is considered a medical emergency, seek care as soon as possible(your pediatrician or emergency room).
🌡For older babies and kids, I suggest getting a thermometer that you as a parent feel most comfortable using(Ear vs temporal thermometer vs axillary vs oral)
🌡Ear thermometers can be used around 6 months of age and older, oral thermometers on the other hand are more accurate for kids 3 yrs of age and older.

Happy Monday!
Your Pediatrician,
Dr.B

What a wonderful opportunity from our chamber! Please share with any seniors you may know!

The Greater Boerne Chamber of Commerce is offering four scholarships to high school seniors graduating in 2021. Each scholarship amount is $2,000 and are open to all graduating seniors living and attending school in Kendall County. The deadline to apply is March 26th.

LEARN MORE: http://bit.ly/3uujQXB

Good morning!
Hope everyone is staying safe and warm. Please know that the roads are still not quite safe, and the situation continues to change w/ temperatures. We are open this afternoon, but we encourage families to take advantage of our Televisit options. We have been successfully conducting televisits through these unprecedented times!

Please call our office w/ any questions you may have. We are here to provide uninterrupted care, while keeping you safe!

Also, we are having rolling outages in the office, if you were unable to reach us via phone, call back in 30 minutes, or email us! If you also need anything and live close to our office, please call. We have water available to those who need it.

Sending warm thoughts!
Dr.B

Good morning to all of our PoB families! We are closed today but working from home on televisits for urgent/emergent visits only. We are also working with power outages so please brrrrrrr with us 🥶

We are anticipating roads will not be safe tomorrow as well. At this time, we are calling everyone to reschedule for tomorrow as well. We are working hard to reschedule everyone appropriately, including our sweet babies to teens and those who need their vaccines! We will continue to see any sick visits.

Again, call our office to schedule televisit for urgent issues as we continue to work from home. Rain or shine(or snow or ice😂), you will have access to us!

Please stay off the roads, be safe and warm!

Your Pediatrician
Dr.B

Make sure you give your littles extra hugs and kisses this weekend!!! 🥰😍

Happy Valentine's to all our sweet families!💙💗

Your Pediatrician,
Dr.B

ps--please be safe and warm this weekend w/ the winter weather warning in effect for our area!

PoB is proud sponsor of Boerne Lemonade Day and believes in empowering our youth with entrepreneurial skills! It’s never too early to teach your child how to be a boss(outside of home😂)!!!

Please check this out and register your child for this free activity hosted by our community. It is also a fun activity for them to change up the pandemic routine!

Your pediatrician,
Dr.B

Registration is now Live! Join us on Sunday, May 2, 2021 for Boerne Lemonade Day - Presented by Sonora Bank! Lemonade Day is a community program that teaches young people the entrepreneurial skills they need to start, own and operate their own business; a lemonade stand! Registration is free and includes a Lemonade Day backpack and access to lessons on business plans, loans, marketing, advertising, permits, and other important topics. These lessons will culminate with a grand lemonade stand business opening on Sunday, May 2nd! 🍋🥤

Sign up here: https://lemonadeday.org/boerne

Happy Friday to all our families!

I love using social media to make informative posts that answer questions about day to day issues families face. This is also an opportunity to clarify any information available in the media. So today I would like to address recent articles about dangers of baby food and heavy metals being found in them. I’ve been getting lots of great questions from parents, so I hope this helps.
🥑🍌🍎🍓🥦🥒🥕🍚
1. This is concerning information, but it is ongoing and not new.
2. The level of metals in baby food is a result of these metals being present in the air, water, and soil related to runoff or pollution from chemicals used in manufacturing and farming around the US and around the world.
3. Due to above, it is important to have legislation in place to reduce this pollution and protect our environment where we can. This is why the AAP advocates for protecting our environment, as it can directly impact the health of all children. However, some metals in food is a direct result of how its grown and difficult to avoid.
4. While we have always known arsenic is present in rice(due to agricultural practices involved in how its grown), we still don’t recommend completely eliminating it, but to limit.
5. We also monitor lead levels by offering screening at 12 months and 24 months of age. While it is difficult to watch your child be poked for blood work, this is an important screening to perform.
6. At this time, the general consensus is that babies do not require routine screening testing for arsenic. Likely the amounts of exposure is still well below limits to cause any clinical effects. You can consider working on moving on from purees at the appropriate time and adding texture and softening up table food and providing it to the baby vs pureed only.

The news or article may be discouraging but here is my take on this: This has likely been taking place for many, many years, and we continue to see children that grow up to be bright and amazing adults:) Like with most decisions you make as parents, exercise caution on making any extreme decisions, and do the best you can.
Here is a link to a wonderful website that shares info on baby food.

https://wholesomebabyfood.momtastic.com/solids.htm

Please reach out to your pediatrician for any questions or concerns, or write this down on your list of questions to go over at your next visit!
Picture of my mini enjoying her baby food at 8 months of age🥰

Wishing you a wonderful weekend!
Dr.B

Pediatrics Of Boerne Pediatrics of Boerne is a boutique practice providing personalized care for your children from newborn stages into young adulthood. Appts for well checks, sick visits, same day visits, chronic conditions such as allergies, ADHD, Asthma, etc.

Happy Saturday everyone!

This past month, we’ve had lots of sweet families sharing the wonderful news about their family growing 👶🏻 🤰🏻. We are so excited for these families adding their second, or third baby! We also have new families joining us while a second is on the way.

Here is fun read for all our growing families and those who are contemplating having another child!🥰
Call our office with any questions about newborn services we offer or if you are interested in setting up a prenatal appointment!

Your Pediatrician,
Dr.B

https://www.romper.com/p/having-a-second-baby-is-awesome-heres-why-15928815?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=owned&utm_campaign=romperfeed&utm_content=later-13767109

13 Reasons You Should Be Pumped For Baby #2 Most of the time, when you tell people you're going to have a second child, people are sweet and kind and happy for you. But every now and then you get One of Those People who say things like "Oh boy are you in trouble" or "Now's when it gets real"…

Great info on how to reduce sugar intake for your littles! This is a healthy habit that requires us as parents to be aware of on a regular basis.
Your Pediatrician,
Dr.B

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/healthy-living/nutrition/Pages/How-to-Reduce-Added-Sugar-in-Your-Childs-Diet.aspx?fbclid=IwAR3j9HEjI5Ck-x4EgOaeF_9nNZ6c9cO23xg_wnV5V63sEraNKQykLmMsJzE

One of the reasons I love my job: you never know what to expect!
This sweet family came in for check ups and one of their ranch occupants tagged along!! 🐄 🐮 🥰.
We love getting a glimpse into our families lives at home!
Your Pediatrician,
Dr.B