Mighty Kids Can Offers training and workshops for all ages, with a special emphasis on pediatrics and parents. We can create webinars as well as in person or video trainings for medical professionals, hospitals, patients and pediatric practices.
On a limited basis we coach one-on-one: parents, grown ups, and teens with a focus on better needle pokes and holistic thyroid education and advocacy. Let me support you on your journey toward healing yourself or your child.
How many times have you asked your pharmacist if there is a difference between your child’s generic medication and the brand-name? How many times have you been reassured that they’re “exactly the same”–aside from the price difference? According to Katherine Eban of The New York Times—this is blatantly false, misleading—and is putting our children’s health, and our health at risk.
The anxiety one feels as a new parent of a child with Congenital Hypothyroidism (or any medical condition) leads one to feel as if every blood draw must happen no matter what. Guess what? It’s more important that it happen in the best possible way, than any way possible.
Quinn’s foot was about the size of a peanut when he had his first needle inserted into his tiny pink heel. Just five days old, four pounds seven-ounces and five weeks premature, this is my earliest memory of his life. I imagine it’s his earliest buried memory– stuck somewhere inside the depths of his amygdala.
