Pediatric Associates of Whidbey Island

08/30/2025

08/28/2025

Did you know just 1️⃣5️⃣ minutes of reading aloud with your child each day can spark their imagination, grow their vocabulary, and help them fall in love with books for a lifetime?

Whether it's a silly bedtime tale or a backyard adventure with a book, read together with your child's favorite Imagination Library book today! 📚✨

Learn more: https://www.partnersforyoungchildren.org/imagination-library-of-whidbey

08/28/2025

Parents — developing your child's road safety smarts starts with you. With school back in session, here are some tips to guide you. ⤵️

08/28/2025

Jumpstart our Fall Storytime season with Eric Ode's concert: You and Me and ABC! With simple songs, musical games, fingerplays, and movement activities, we're building Early Literacy skills in a positive, interactive, and fun setting at the Oak Harbor Library.
This program will be at 10:30am on Thursday, September 18. For more information, please visit https://buff.ly/IKoGK4u

08/28/2025

Free webinar about helping your baby stay safe against RSV on 9/19 at 10am pacific time

Back by popular demand! Join our AAP experts for an updated look at respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and how to protect your family this season. RSV immunization has been a game changer in recent years. The session will cover: · What is RSV and what should expectant and new parents know about it? ...

08/28/2025

A top pediatrician explains why babies need a rich variety of foods—NOT just protein—for brain and body health.

08/28/2025

As you read up on things that affect your child’s health, you may come across false rumors or outdated ideas—especially on the internet and social media. It’s important to find trustworthy, up-to-date information. That can be hard when the internet and social media can elevate falsehoods and p...

08/23/2025

We were told smartphones would connect our kids and keep them safe.

But they’ve stolen play, focus, boredom, connection, safety – all things children need to thrive.

It doesn’t have to be this way.
Choose wild over wired.

08/23/2025

Let’s be crystal clear: unsafe sleep kills babies.

Every. Single. Year. Thousands of infants die because someone decided their baby “looked cozier” with a blanket, a pillow, or curled up in an adult bed.

Newsflash: your baby doesn’t care about “cozy.” They care about breathing.

A firm, flat, empty sleep surface isn’t a suggestion—it’s the only evidence-based way to reduce the risk of unsafe sleep… suffocation, asphyxiation, rebreathing, overlay, wedging, falls, and SIDS.

Choosing what feels right to you over what we know is safe isn’t “parenting intuition.” It’s reckless.

This isn’t about comfort. It’s about survival. Comfort won’t bring a baby back.

08/21/2025