Morgan Hill Family Wellness

Did you know that the Morgan Hill library has a special story time for infants to toddlers (up to 18 months)? Its a great way to connect you and your child to the library and help build a love of reading!  It’s held on Saturdays from 11:00 - 11:30.

If you are on a gluten-free or special diet it can be difficult to frequently go to Wholefoods to pick up the special items you need.  Morgan Hill has more resources than ever for gluten-free, dairy-free and allergen-free living.  Below is a list of stores along with my favorite allergen-free items they carry.

I’m thrilled to report that ABC news recently aired a feature story on acupuncture for kids.   The story is well balanced and objective.  It depicts the personal stories of several children that have improved their health tremendously with acupuncture.  It highlights that sometimes Western medical treatments alone are not enough to treat common conditions such [...]

Childrens Hospital Los Angeles is paving the way for a new model of pediatric health care by providing Acupuncture to its patients. The program which started January 2009 provides pain management for children ages 13 – 18. The founder of the program, Jeffrey I. Gold, PhD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics, and director of [...]

Here is a link to a study which showed that kids ate up to 50% more veggies when they were given a cool name. Wouldn’t you eat twice as many carrots if they were x-ray vision carrots?  At our house we recently started eating secret sauce (a.k.a. hummus) and they like it.   It just [...]

Saturday my husband and I went to our first natural foods cooking class, put on by Morgan Hill’s local nutritionist Robin Nielsen. We had a really great time cooking up some tasty breakfast dishes. While I’m not new to cooking with whole foods, I picked up a quite a few valuable tips & tricks. [...]

Many of my adult patients find it shocking that I treat children with acupuncture. They can’t believe that children will let me insert needles in their bodies, let alone enjoy their treatments. I think this view is common because they think I’m treating children the same as adults. Maybe they [...]

What are your favorite cough remedies?  Especially something that works in the middle of the night?
What a great question since most pediatric cough & cold medicine has been recalled by the FDA for safety reasons.  Honestly, I don’t think the cough and cold medicines work that well (at least in my personal experience.)  Chinese herbs [...]