A Modern Dad

Expectant Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood Banking

Cord blood banking allows families to store stem cells that are harvested at birth from cord blood extracted from a newborn baby’s umbilical cord.

Raising a Child with Food Restrictions – Part 2

This is Part 2 of a series describ­ing our expe­ri­ences with iden­ti­fy­ing and man­ag­ing food restric­tions for our baby daugh­ter and how our jour­ney even­tu­ally led us to the likely cause…FPIES (Food Protein-​Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome).

Raising a Child with Food Restrictions – Part 1

This is Part 1 of a series describ­ing our expe­ri­ences with iden­ti­fy­ing and man­ag­ing food restric­tions for our baby daugh­ter and how our jour­ney even­tu­ally led us to the likely cause…FPIES (Food Protein-​Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome).

Rethinking Infant Immunization Schedules

Leading up to the birth of our daugh­ter, one of the major deci­sions that my wife and I dis­cussed and researched at length was the immu­niza­tion sched­ule that we would fol­low with her. Make sure you understand the various types of immunizations that your child will be given and the various schedules that you might consider.