Gateway Pediatrics

Gateway Pediatrics Jennifer Wehberg, MD • Perry Adams, PA-C • Amber Adkins, NP-C • Christine Perdue, CPNP
Accepting new patients newborn through 21!

Thank you for visiting Gateway Pediatrics, PA. We are a four-provider practice serving newborns through 21 years of age in the Delmarva area. Providers Jennifer Wehberg, MD and Perry Adams, PA-C (with a combined 40 years’ experience) opened the Salisbury, MD practice in September 2009 in response to the shortage of pediatric care on the Eastern Shore. To those who have chosen Gateway Pediatrics as their child’s care provider, we are honored to be the “gateway to their child’s healthy future”! COVID Update: Now offering Vehicle Visits and Telemedicine

Reading is a simple way to help your child grow. It can create a lasting emotional connection between kids and their par...
11/25/2025

Reading is a simple way to help your child grow. It can create a lasting emotional connection between kids and their parents. Reading stimulates a child’s cognitive development and lays the groundwork for a lifelong love of reading and learning. Consider implementing these reading tips during your next reading session with your 1-year-old.

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If your child is sick with a cold or flu, there are a few things you can do to keep them comfortable and prevent the ill...
11/22/2025

If your child is sick with a cold or flu, there are a few things you can do to keep them comfortable and prevent the illness from spreading.

1. Consult your doctor early if you have concerns about your child's illness.

2. Stay home for at least 24 hours after your child's fever is gone except to get medical care or other necessities.

3. Avoid spreading viruses by having your child wash their hands frequently.

4. Encourage your child to drink plenty of water and other clear liquids to prevent fluid loss (dehydration).

5. If you must leave home, for example to get medical care, wear facemask, or have your child cover coughs and sneezes with a tissue.

6. Clean surfaces that may be contaminated with viruses, such as toys and doorknobs.

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11/22/2025

Positive, responsive, language-rich interactions during a child’s first years support healthy brain development that critically influences executive function and attention and leads to social and learning skills. One of the best interactions to support healthy brain development is reading aloud to your toddler! Consider these tips when choosing books to read aloud to your 18-month-old.

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Handwashing keeps you clean. Wash your hands before meals and after bathroom trips. Set a good example for your children...
11/20/2025

Handwashing keeps you clean. Wash your hands before meals and after bathroom trips. Set a good example for your children and wash your hands often!

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When a child starts to vigorously scratch their scalp, parents pray for dandruff. Unfortunately, for school-aged childre...
11/19/2025

When a child starts to vigorously scratch their scalp, parents pray for dandruff. Unfortunately, for school-aged children this itch is often caused by lice. But lice doesn’t have to be scary! Review these treatment and prevention tips and always reach out to your child's provider with any questions or concerns.

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Reading is an essential activity that is linked to children’s cognitive development, academic skills, and future employm...
11/18/2025

Reading is an essential activity that is linked to children’s cognitive development, academic skills, and future employment opportunities. Children often become interested in reading by watching and mimicking their parents or participating in child-parent reading routines.

Although mothers have a big role to play, research shows that fathers are particularly influential for children’s language and literacy development, which means they are a promising point of intervention for efforts to improve children’s language and literacy. Reading together and engaging in other literacy activities, such as telling stories, are things that fatherhood programs can promote to help fathers model positive parenting and improve children’s developmental outcomes.

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This is an amazing letter from a Mom to her third grader about her family’s 10 commandments around phones — drawn in par...
11/18/2025

This is an amazing letter from a Mom to her third grader about her family’s 10 commandments around phones — drawn in part by the research she did for her recently published book, Plays Well with Others. This letter was featured on TODAY.COM.

Dearest almost third grader,

I write this letter as much for you as I do for myself, in the hopes that the power of the written word will bind me to everything I’m about to lay out. Because inevitably, you’ll soon claim that my refusal to get you a phone is impinging on your ability to make friends, keep friends, do schoolwork, teleport into a classmate’s house via avatar — lord knows where we’ll be by then. And so, our family’s 10 commandments around phones — drawn in part by the research I did for my first book, for which I consulted myriad experts about the effects of technology on parenting — explaining why you and your siblings will not be getting a phone until high school.

1) Boredom is good.

This is something that experts repeated to me, time and time again. The best thing for developing brains is not constant input, but rather boredom, which allows the mind to wander, and inevitably create activity by itself. Smartphones are boredom killers, full stop. Instead? Pick up a book. Build a block tower with your younger siblings. Think.
..

Keep reading: https://www.waituntil8th.org/blog/2024/8/28/dear-daughter-why-youre-not-getting-a-phone-until-high-school

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11/15/2025

PREP TIME: 30 min
6 servings

🌯 1 wrap (two halves) provides 2 oz equivalent meat, ½ cup vegetable, and 1 ¾ oz equivalent grains.
🌯 ½ wrap (one half) provides 1 oz equivalent meat, 1/4 cup vegetable, and ¾ oz equivalent grains.

INGREDIENTS
— ¼ cup Light mayonnaise
— 1/8 cup White vinegar
— ¼ cup of Sugar
— 1 tsp Poppy seeds
— 1 ½ tsp Garlic powder
— 1 ½ tsp Onion powder
— 1 ½ tsp Chili powder
— 2 cups Fresh broccoli, shredded
— 1 ½ cups Fresh carrots, peeled, shredded
— ¼ cup Canned crushed pineapple, in 100% juice, drained
— 1 cup Fresh baby spinach, chopped
— 3 cups Cooked diced chicken, ½” pieces (12 oz)
— 6 Whole-wheat tortillas, 10”

DIRECTIONS
1️⃣ In a small mixing bowl, combine mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, poppy seeds, garlic powder, onion powder, and chili powder for the dressing. Mix well. Cover and refrigerate.
2️⃣ Combine broccoli, carrots, pineapple, and spinach in a large bowl. Stir in dressing and chicken. Mix well. Serve immediately or cover and refrigerate.
3️⃣ For each wrap, place 2/3 cup filling on the bottom half of the tortilla and roll in the form of a burrito. Place seam side down. Cut diagonally. Serve immediately.

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Children are natural problem solvers. Children problem solve when learning to walk, when they learn to pick up a ball fr...
11/14/2025

Children are natural problem solvers. Children problem solve when learning to walk, when they learn to pick up a ball from the floor, and when they learn to put a spoon in their mouth. Mathematical play should be geared around the idea of problem solving. This does not mean finding the right answer to a problem like 2 + 2, it means designing scenarios where children have to apply the mathematical knowledge they already have to a new situation and be able to reflect on their own processes or strategies for solving or fixing these situations.

Here are some examples of problem solving in play and how you, as a caregiver, can support it.

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11/13/2025

For the first few days of your baby’s life, he or she may have a lot of mucus in their nose or throat. A baby’s gag reflex can be triggered by too much mucus, so they may appear to choke if there are excess secretions in their mouth. Sometimes babies even spit up or vomit after coughing to clear the mouth and nose of excess mucus.

Review these answers to common questions about mucus and always reach out to your child's pediatrician with any questions or concerns.

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Did you know? Fathers often engage with their children through play. This is significant because children’s cognitive ab...
11/13/2025

Did you know? Fathers often engage with their children through play. This is significant because children’s cognitive abilities – especially young children’s – develop through new experiences and exploration, which are key components of play.

All information provided by the National Fatherhood Initiative —https://fb.com/nationalfatherhoodinitiative

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Ma*****na-infused edibles have been used by patients looking to relieve a wide variety of ailments. They are often packe...
11/11/2025

Ma*****na-infused edibles have been used by patients looking to relieve a wide variety of ailments. They are often packed in colorful bags and containers that are very attractive to children. In addition, the edibles often come in the form of gummies, hard candies, brownies and even cookies – all items that kids crave.

Ma*****na is not harmless to children, particularly after large ingestions, and can result in hospitalization. If you believe your child has ingested marijuana-infused edibles, reach out to your regional poison control center right away (1-800-222-1222). If your child is exhibiting severe signs or symptoms, such as seizure-like activity, inability to awaken or respiratory difficulties, call 911 immediately.

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1415 Wesley Drive
Salisbury, MD
21801

Opening Hours

Monday 8:15am - 12pm
1pm - 6:30pm
Tuesday 8:15am - 12pm
1pm - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8:15am - 12pm
1pm - 6:30pm
Thursday 8:15am - 12pm
1pm - 4:30pm
Friday 8:15am - 12pm
1pm - 4:30pm

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https://www.learnmore.health/gatewaypediatrics

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About Gateway Pediatrics

Thank you for visiting Gateway Pediatrics, PA. We are a four-provider practice serving newborns through 21 years of age in the Delmarva area.

Providers Jennifer Wehberg, MD and Perry Adams, PA-C (with a combined 40 years’ experience) opened the Salisbury, MD practice in September 2009 in response to the shortage of pediatric care on the Eastern Shore.

To those who have chosen Gateway Pediatrics as their child’s care provider, we are honored to be the “gateway to their child’s healthy future”!