Northside Pediatrics, PC

03/13/2026

Good info from our friends at Healthy Children about trying to keep our foods healthy for our babies and toddlers too. https://www.healthychildren.org/English/healthy-living/nutrition/Pages/Food-Additives.aspx?_gl=1*56zyz9*_ga*ODY2Mjc2NjE1LjE3NzMxNTc4OTU.*_ga_FD9D3XZVQQ*czE3NzM0MTU4NzAkbzEkZzEkdDE3NzM0MTU4OTgkajMyJGwwJGgw

03/13/2026

Yep....we get it. So do the multimillion dollar drug companies, selling you stuff that doesn't really work. Dr Beachgem speaking the truth!

03/12/2026

Interesting yet sad history of how did orphanages come to be. This child wrapped in silk is the symbol of the American Academy of Pediatrics too. ❤️❤️

Florence in the 1400s had a problem. Babies. Babies everywhere. Babies in the fields, babies in the alleyways, babies left on the pews of the Church. Florence was crawling with abandoned babies. For all purposes, Florence in the 1400s was the center of the civilized world. Art, science, wealth, architecture, all were in bloom. Ruled from behind the scenes by the wealthy Medici family, this was the Renaissance… yet that wealth also meant slaves, and those slaves unwanted babies needed to be dealt with. Something had to be done.
The responsibility for all these foundlings, as they were known, was given to the “Arte della Seta,” or Silk Guild. It was one of the richest, most powerful guilds in Florence. It was quickly decided that a new building would be established to house these children. The hospital was to be the first building erected specifically for the care of abandoned children; the first orphanage. Called the Ospedale degli Innocenti (Hospital of the Innocents), an important element was to be an official infant unloading point so that Children would no longer be left willy-nilly around the city. On February 5, 1445, 10 days after the official opening the first child was dropped off.
A sort of turnstile door was constructed so that a woman could drop off the baby without being seen. Above it a statue of Mary pointed down, indicating the appropriate drop-off point.
Women would often split an item, such as a coin, and leave half attached to a necklace on the child being given up, with the idea that perhaps one day the coin could be whole again. Operating much like a turnstile at a 24 hour deli, the child would be spun around and once on the other side, began a short slide down a chute into “the basin of abandonment”. On either side of the basin knelt two terra-cotta figures of Mary and Joseph, the basin doubling as a manger. The child would then be quickly picked up and brought to be wet-nursed.
The Ospedale degli Innocenti cared for over 375,000 over its five and a half centuries, and continues to help care for abandoned children today.
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03/11/2026

Olympics, Oshimpics...check out the Paralympics! Still on Peacock...amazing!!

03/11/2026

SUPER post about why if you come in the office with only a few days of "green mucus" you are likely to get a science lesson instead of an antibiotic (despite the adult urgent cares giving them ...and shots of steroids...out like water). The last thing we want (and you too) is using meds you or your kids don't need or potentially could cause more side effects

03/10/2026

Such a horribly tragic story! And a reminder to talk to your own teens (especially those 18 and older who are now tried as adults for any crimes) about rethinking any "good ideas" and the consequences that may happen (drinking and driving is a big one as spring approaches). Please just stay home. Prayers for the family of this beloved teacher. Sounds like the community in Hall county is wrapping them in love and care and his wife agrees charging the kids in this circumstance would not benefit anyone.

03/09/2026

Man! What an amazing little girl, teen and adult. Hard work (and good luck along the way with scholarships for deserving kids) stories always get pediatricians a little weepy. We love seeing your kids grow up esp those who have had some bumps along the way then persevered!

The Bronx, 1961. A seven-year-old girl stands alone in a cramped apartment kitchen, boiling a needle over a gas flame. Her small hands are remarkably steady—but they shouldn't have to be. Not at seven. Not by herself.

Sonia has just been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in an era when this disease is far more dangerous than it is today. Her father is losing his battle with alcoholism. Her mother Celina works exhausting nursing shifts just to keep food on the table and the lights on. So this child does what she must do to stay alive: she teaches herself to prepare the insulin injections her body requires. Every single day. No excuses. No backup plan.

Two years later, her father is gone. Dead at 42, leaving behind a widow and two children. Celina is now raising them alone on a nurse's wages in the Bronxdale Houses, a public housing project where hope doesn't bloom easily and dreams often die young.

But Celina Sotomayor does something that changes everything. Something most would call impractical, even reckless. She saves every spare dollar she can scrape together and buys her children the Encyclopedia Britannica. Not new clothes. Not better food. Not a television. Books. Because she understands a truth that poverty tries to hide: education is the only real bridge out.

Sonia devours those volumes. She tears through Nancy Drew mysteries, watches Perry Mason on their small TV solving cases with brilliance and principle, and makes a promise to herself at age 10 that most adults would dismiss as pure fantasy. She's going to become a lawyer. A Puerto Rican girl from the projects. A diabetic child giving herself shots. She's going to make it.

She becomes valedictorian of her high school. Earns a full scholarship to Princeton University, where she arrives feeling like she's crash-landed on an alien planet. The culture shock is overwhelming. The academic gaps are real. But she refuses to break. She studies relentlessly, builds herself up, and graduates summa cm laude. Then Yale Law School. Then editor of the Yale Law Journal. Then prosecutor. Then federal judge. Then a force of nature in American law.

And in August 2009, that little girl who once stood alone in a housing project kitchen with a needle in her trembling hand is sworn in as the first Hispanic Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Sonia Sotomayor takes her seat on the highest court in the land.

Years later, when they rename the Bronxdale Houses in her honor, Justice Sotomayor stands before the building that raised her and says through tears, "I lived here during the most formative years of my life. This place made me who I am."

She used to watch the world from those project windows, wondering if there was a place in it for a girl like her.

Now the world watches her decide the law of the land.

Your beginning doesn't determine your ending. Your circumstances don't write your story. You do. Every single day, you choose what comes next.

03/08/2026

Often arrive on your feed when folks are searching for help (thnx algorithms/internet) often with glowing endorsements. Some good advice when you're trying to figure out if this is something you should try for you or your family members from our friends that unbiased science podcast.

03/07/2026

Don't be late for church, sports or other Sunday events tomorrow. And Hooray on being closer to spring!

03/07/2026

Very interesting. Also super interesting is the American Experience show about the race to find the polio vaccine, The Polio Crusade which you can find on the PBS website or app. Meanwhile add polio to the list of things making a comeback and the CDC has a list of 23 countries (a few in Europe) where you need to make sure you are up to date on polio vaccines before you go. Good news! If you're a patient and up to
date on check ups you start getting this lifesaving vaccine at 2 mos.

Dr. Isabel Morgan was an early and important player in the race to find a polio vaccine—one of the unsung heroes of the fight against a deadly disease.

After earning a PhD in bacteriology, Morgan worked at the Rockefeller Institute for six years before moving to a top-notch lab at Johns Hopkins in 1944. There, with March of Dimes funding, her team strove to immunize monkeys against polio. At the time, most other prominent virologists believed a vaccine could only be achieved using a live virus, but Morgan thought otherwise. After five years of work, her team became the first to successfully inoculate monkeys with a killed-virus vaccine.

Morgan’s research looked incredibly promising to those hoping for a human vaccine, but in 1949, at the height of her career, Morgan surprised the scientific community by leaving polio research behind forever. Morgan reportedly told friends that she quit the field because she was afraid of the next step: testing the vaccine on human children.

“She was probably a year or two ahead of Jonas Salk in the race for a vaccine,” author David Oshinsky told American Experience. “Had she stayed the course, there’s a good chance today we’d be talking about the Morgan vaccine and not the Salk vaccine.”

Ultimately, Morgan's work provided a foundation for the later work of Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin.

📸: Isabel Morgan (Barbara Morgan Roberts)

03/06/2026

Happy National Book Day! ❤️❤️❤️

03/06/2026

Cobb County families: check out this free seed option!

These Cobb Country libraries are the place to get your FREE seeds this year! 🍅🌱 Learn more 👉 bit.ly/free-seeds-cobb

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