Hey guys I'm Lauren from St. Louis Children's Hospital. Today we're at the
Specialty Care Center here in the middle of West County and we are going to talk
about the Baby Kid Expo which we're so excited to be sponsoring this year with
our Washington University of Physicians. I'm here with Heather, the maker of all
things Baby Expo. Heather tell us a little bit about Expo and what parents
can expect. We are so excited to invite our St. Louis families out this Saturday
to Queenie Park from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. It's a free event where parents can
connect with different businesses and services available in our area and just
get connected to what's available to them in our area. That's so great! So how many
businesses are gonna be at Baby Expo? We actually have over 70 businesses signed
up so you'll definitely want to come out and plan to spend some time there and
it's just a great place to get connected. One of those 70s is St. Louis Children's
Hospital. Yeah! We have a very nice booth here at Baby Expo. We've got
five different stations that you'll come to and visit and we're gonna talk with
some of those experts that are actually gonna be there on Saturday. Tell me a
little bit more about the cost of Baby Expo.
It's free? Yes! Do you have to get tickets in advance? Where do I get my tickets? What do I do?
Definitely. But the event is free but we are asking if you can pre-register that
would be wonderful. So you just visit our website, babykidexpo.com
pre-register on there and that will also enter you for any
drawings for St. Louis tickets and different items so it's worth doing for
that anyway. I think we can stop right there with free stuff guys, come on. We
will put a link to the registration in the comments after this video is done
posting so keep an eye out for that. So who all should come to Baby Kid Expo?
Am I bringing my littles? Am I bringing my bigs? Am I leaving
everybody at home which I don't know. Definitely bring your kids. We have different things
for all ages. We are going to have a petting zoo and pony rides we also will
have Mickey and Minnie Mouse on the main stage and many princesses Mad Science
will be there doing a science experiment.
So totally kids? Totally kids! We're going to have magic shows, comedy
shows, and yeah so you can check out our website for the full schedule of
activities there. Okay and I would be bad if I did not remind everyone
that the Baby Kid Expo is not happening at the Children's Specialty
Care Center. it is happening at Green's Felder Recreation Center at Queenie Park
in Baldwin. So do not come to the Specialty Care Center on Saturday you
will be horribly disappointed and very lost. Anything else our families
should know? No, just pre-register, take a look at what
a good time is to come for the age of your kids, and we can't wait to see you
on Saturday! Sounds like that website can be key and we will again put that
in the comments section of this Facebook Live. Let's go talk to one of our experts
who's going to be there on Saturday.
You look so casual! So this is Brittany everybody
and she is one of our wonderful technicians over at our Safety Stop
location. What is Safety Stop for somebody who doesn't know? So Safety Stop
is an Education Center and it's what we do is we educate on car seat safety,
helmet safety for bicycles, we do home safety, and we also do safe sleep
education for parents. So kiddos from A to Z are getting covered? Yes, any kind of
safety things for kids we can cover. Awesome so at the Baby Kid Expo on
Saturday what are you going to be able to offer to parents and talk them through?
So what we can do on Saturday is tell you a little bit more about what Safety
Stop is, talk to you about car seat questions you might have that we can
answer for you, helmet questions, things about home safety, or safe sleep,
basically anything that you have a question about we could address it there
and then if you need car seat checks we can help you set up appointments and
show you how to do that. Oh and I'd be ver missing it if I didn't
throw this in there. How do you make an appointment at Safety Stop? You have to
call 454-KIDS and then press 3 and there's four different
locations that we have where you can make appointments to come get your
bicycle helmets checked as well as your car seats. Okay good deal so
we'll be sure to put that in the comments as well if anyone has any
questions on Safety Stop and also if you have questions as we're going through
things be sure to throw them out there, we're happy to help. So I see you brought
a friend with you. Yes, yes I did! So this is one of the things we'll be doing on
Saturday is talking about helmet safety and basically how do you know if your
kiddos helmet's right? Right so we see a lot of kids wearing helmets the wrong
way. Basically when your helmet's on we want to make sure it's covering that
frontal part of their forehead there so this line on their helmets needs to be
parallel to the ground. What we see often is we see that their heads are kicked
back and that you're seeing a lot of their forehead. If I can see more than
two fingers of their forehead it's not protecting what I need it to protect.
These straps are really important as well. Not a lot of people pay attention
to the side straps. We want these to come to like a V or Y below the child's ears.
These front straps really keeps the front of the helmet on and the back on. Make
sure that the back stays secure there, as well as under their chin. So under here
we want to make sure it's nice and snug. If you can get a finger under there,
that's great. But if kids are slipping it off without unbuckling it, it's too
loose and if they are in a little bike accident that's not going to protect
them or do anything. Right I always see these and my kids, I have a
five-year-old who likes his helmet, but he's always really scared I'm gonna
pinch him. Yes we have the pinch guard pillow. So there are helmets that come with that
kind of stuff because if it's not tight like you're saying it's not really doing
its job. All the helmets that we saw at Children's have these pinch guard
pillows so that you're not pinching your child.
Okay and I hear you're giving away stuff?We are! More free stuff! We are
giving things away. So I think they're bike flashers.
Yes little flashers to go with the helmets. We're not giving away helmets at Baby Kid Expo
but they are always available at Children's and Safe Stop. Yes and we can show you at Baby
Kid Expo how to do those helmets. I love it! I was looking at this on the
back. I think about like little girls and well even pulling your ponytail through
but what is that thing? So when you were showing me that earlier? There are these ratchets
here and basically it just tightens down so that it fits to your child's head
perfectly. That's a lot of things we have parents say is my child's helmet doesn't
fit, like it's wobbly, it doesn't work. On helmets like these that we have at
Children's they ratchet down so that you can make sure it's that perfect, snug fit
on your child's head every time. And that's keeping their foreheads safe? Yes wearing bike helmets properly
help reduce the risk of brain injury by up to 75%. Oh wow, I love it! Well this is
super helpful. Again tell us how we make an appointment in Safety Stop? All you have to do is
call 454-KIDS and press 3 and they can give you a list
of our four different locations and when we're open. Very cool! So like I said
earlier Brittany is going to be one of our five experts at the Baby Kid Expo
this Saturday. We're going to have several folks there. We're going to visit with a
couple more of them, let's go!
Kayla is one of our amazing Child Life Specialists that are here at the Specialty Care
Center as well as at Children's. Kayla, for those who don't know, what is a Child
Life Specialist? So as a Child Life Specialist we help kids all throughout the hospital whether they are
inpatient or outpatient. We kind of explain to them on their level and age appropriate what's going on while they're in the hospital.
So when you're seeing these kids do
you have to make an appointment, does the doctor pull you in, how do you guys kind
of get with the family? Usually the nurses call us or doctors if they think that a child can benefit from our services.
So what happens when you get in the room? Kayla's arrived now what do we do? So wee are constantly
assessing you know what does this child appear to be scared of?
Ask the child you know what are you scared of so then they're able to tell us.
Then we kind of work through their minds you know what would work best for
this kid. We have construction items if they're getting a procedure done just to
kind of help keep their mind off things and then they can kind of forget about
what actually is going on. Yeah, it's all about that distraction. So I have to tell my personal
story about Child Life and the amazing technique of distraction. So my
five-year-old took a spill, had a nice little laceration right in the corner of his head,
it was pretty deep so we decided to take him to the emergency department and
he was not having it, just very anxious. It can be very overwhelming since there's so
many people coming in and out and as soon as they said the word stitches he
really lost it. And we're like buddy what's wrong what's wrong and then the wonderful
team members from Child Life came in because they could see he was having a
lot of anxiety and he's like I don't want you to staple my face and we were like
what no one said anything about staples. But that's what he thought stitches were
and so the Child Life was amazing when it came to like buddy you can't even
feel this. They put a glove on his hand and let him actually feel his cut.
Then he couldn't feel it so if you wasn't gonna feel the stitches or the
staples that he thought were gonna close his face together. And so then they were
really great about you know there was an iPad, there were popsicles, pretty
much you can distract a five-year-old with anything. Yeah we have bubbles we
have lots of light spinners, lots of different things. So all different age groups
benefit from Child Life.
We go from itty bitty babies to older teens that still get nervous. I
think every parent can relate to that. Their kids get stressed out in different
situations for different reasons. And a lot of parents if they think that their kid can benefit from our services they can tell the doctor to call Child Life. So we have a
lot of doctors offices here at this Specialty Care Center that call us up.
There's a team here at Specialty Care Center and then there's a team over at
the main hospital at Children's. And you all do different things
focusing on different kiddos. Yep seeing all different areas also. So what
are you guys going to be doing on Saturday? No one's getting stitches on Saturday, no one
needs to be distracted from that. On Saturday if you come by our booth we have some tip sheets. We'll also have some of our distraction items like the
light spinners, eye spy books, our VR goggles that are super popular right now,
and then our iPad just to kind of scroll through and see what apps we have. I've never
thought about VR goggles as something that would be such a good distraction
that you know if the kids see that they're having an IV being put in or
something like that or they're hurt and they can see it, it probably makes it
feel a lot worse like when parents make that horrible face when they're kids fall and
then your kid reacts off of it. VR goggles don't allow you to make that kind of scary face.
There's two types of kids. There's kids that like to
watch what's going on and there's kids that do not. So it has to work for the
perfect kid. I would be the not. We use them a lot so it works! Aw Kayla
thank you so much. We appreciate you being out there. I think you guys are probably
going to be giving away stuff too - again free stuff - on Saturday. Again thank you so
much I'm going to kick it on over to Kendra who's going to introduce you to a couple
more of our experts. Thank you, Laura! Well I'm here now with Maggie Stark and
you said start with like a tiny star and you know what, she has a superpower.
She's a pharmacist and that means she has answers about medicine. And as a
new mom I'm just like hello I have 10,000 questions let's get going.
So for starters, you know every parent wants their kid to feel better but
medicine can be kind of scary territory. So for starters, when can you
start giving your kids medicine like when is Tylenol okay? When
is Ibuprofen okay? Tylenol can be given to any child pretty much right after birth.
Ibuprofen is something we worry more about though because as your kidneys are
still developing pretty much until the age of six months so we get concerned
with giving somebody Ibuprofen at home if they're not under direct supervision
of a physician. And so often when I read like the my boxes it says if your child
is under the age of 12 months you need to really consult your physician before
giving them a dosage how do you know what kind of a dosage to be giving your
kiddo? We use a lot of drug references that helps us determine based on a
child's weight what would be an appropriate dose for them. Okay and I
know that we have an app that we're working on that will allow parents to
actually take a look at what kind of dosage they should be giving their child
and I believe we're going to be giving those fliers out at the Baby Kid Expo.
So information is also along with the freebies so parents pay attention
and this might be a stop you want to make. So okay now this one is from my own
personal experience because I have a little girl that is on the nasty pink
stuff right now, the Amoxicillin, how do you know whenever it might be time to
get your kid to the doctor and start talking about an antibiotic? Anytime you
would see a fever be a good sign that you're looking at possibly an infection
and not just a common cold so that would generally be a sign for us
that as a pharmacist I would refer somebody to call in their pediatrician.
In terms of the nasty pink stuff we also offer some cool things to try and make
sure we can get a child to take a medication so both at Children's and
here at CSC see we have flavouring options so we can flavor most
medications that we give to a child just help it taste better.
We also go into other options for people that maybe can't afford the
flavoring, it does have a small price as
it's $3, but we can also always make suggestions for other ways of flavoring
to help it that medicine end. And sometimes it's just yucky it just tastes
yucky. So what happens if a child spits up a little bit? Do I give them more or am I okay? If the child spits up the medication within about 15 minutes we
generally recommend going and having giving a second dose. If it's been a past
about 15 minutes we would generally assume that most of the medication has
been absorbed and it's okay to not redose. Okay
now I'm supposed to do this pink stuff with my daughter for ten days, two times
a day. Ten days. Do we really have to do all ten days? You do. So we have to make sure
that the medication is in the body long enough to actually kill the entire
infection. If your child starts to feel better and then they stop taking the
medication there's a chance that that infection could come back and even be
worse than it was the first time. Okay and so tell me a little bit about what
you're going to be doing this Saturday. So this Saturday I'll be able to answer any
questions that you may have about your child's medications, any dosing questions
related to my child or my grandchild is this age and this weight what would be a
recommended dose for them to have, Tylenol or ibuprofen or other
over-the-counter medications? We can also talk about ways to dispose of your
medication if you have stuff laying around at home that you no longer want
anymore and pretty much we'll also go through the other ways that we have at
Children's available to dohsa medications. So outside of a regular
retail pharmacy our outpatient pharmacies offer medication syringes and
adapter caps that are all designated as a filmmaking medication administration
a lot easier. So basically you don't have to go to
Google. There's no Dr. Google here. You're able to actually get some answers from a
real professional and really kind of get to know you guys and what we can do for
your children how we can use medicine to help your kids feel better. So thank you
so much I look forward to seeing you on Saturday. All right so we have one more
stop to make we're just going to head right around the corner. This is Emily Hunt and
she is like one of our dentists, our pediatric dentists. And I want you to
know look how nice she is. She is not a scary dentist at all so you have no reason,
parents and kids, to fear this lovely lady. I'll have a snow white coat. We all know we have to brush our teeth. When does my kid need to start brushing their teeth? The first tooth.
That's where I think the confusion comes. Sometimes you actually want to use an actual toothbrush with your child from
the very beginning and the reason is you want them to be desensitized. You don't
want them to have this foreign object coming at their mouth that isn't a spoon
as soon as possible. So tell me a little bit about how do you start with teeth
brushing when you have a child that's you know maybe not even a year old yet
getting some teeth coming up? Well I have a prop who happens to be my own nine-month-old.
She has a very cute prop! So Ayden being a dentist child has actually had this
toothbrush since his first tooth, which was six months. But there's a huge range
when it comes to teeth. Some kids get their first teeth as young as three
months and some kids are over a year and that's okay. So the big thing is is when
you're using a toothbrush you only want to use very little and as you can see he
likes this a lot. Ready? You want to brush your teeth? He's so lucky! So the thing is is
that you want to actually control the toothbrush. They like holding it
themselves but sometimes you have to hold their hand and brush their teeth.
Now he is a dentist's child so maybe he has a little bit more quality. Now my daughter hates this! He's being very good.
But, he likes his toothbrush. So that's why the younger you do it the better. But
don't fear if your child is a little bit over a year old. The big thing is
consistency. So the more often you do it, the more likely they are to do it. And
it's good to affiliate it with something that they're doing it all the time. I see that you have toothpaste right
here. Yes. Is there a big difference between baby toothpaste, children's
toothpaste, and adult toothpaste? There is. So baby toothpaste there's two different
variations, there's fluoride and then fluoride free. He's a little distracting.
So there's fluoride free and then there's fluoride containing. So most
manufacturers actually distribute baby toothpaste as fluoride free, but in the past few
years the recommendation is to start with fluoride right away. And as you may
have noticed I only use a very very very little amount on my nine month old. So
it's okay if they can't spit. You just want to get them that little bit of
fluoride application from the get go. And when do you make that switch over to
regular adult toothpaste? When they're ready to not like the taste. So when you feel like
their breath is really really stinky. Most kids think mint toothpaste is spicy.
That's the first thing that you describe that is spicy, and so using the kids toothpaste,
I mean I have some twenty-year-olds who come in, we're still going to a
pediatric dentist to use bubblegum or strawberry and that's
totally fine too. So honestly whatever gets the kids to like brushing their
teeth is what you should do. And now when should the parent start bringing their kids in to see you?
Awesome. First tooth or by the age of one. And so it's not the
expectation isn't for your child to sit back and lean back from the chair open
their mouth like you're expected to. Right. You want them to develop a relationship
with their dentist at that age and so that you can get your questions
answered as well. Once again not a scary thing just to get you used to it. Exactly.
What are you going to be doing with us here on Saturday? I'm here to answer
those questions when you don't have a baby screaming at the dentist office. So
if you have any questions about some teeth or any questions about products
I'm happy to answer them and we'll have toothbrushes. All right, yeah, toothbrushes!
Lots of great information and lots of great services are
going to be on hand this Saturday. Lots of good information all in one place.
Parents, of course like we talked about earlier, with your kids lots of fun stuff
petting zoo, a visit from the princesses, which I have to say I'm a big kid
myself, I'm really excited about the princesses. We want to
remind you that it is this Saturday, that's August 11th from 9:00 to noon.
Forgive me I have to look make sure I have the place right. It's Green
Felder Recreation Complex at Queenie Park, and that is near Baldwin.
I'm getting a note that it's 9:00 to
2:00 I'm sorry 9:00 to 2:00. And again we're going to put
our Facebook event in the in the comments section. We're also going to
have all that information there and some of the resources that we talked about
earlier that's all going to be there. So one place feel free to keep dropping
questions drop in comments we'll get to those and thanks for joining us on
Facebook Live we're gonna look forward to seeing you this Saturday.