Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - A Doctor’s Take on Your Newborn Worries
Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show
Slate Audio
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Zak sits down with Dr. Parga Belinkie, pediatrician and new parent whisperer, to talk about those intense, often foggy first months with a newborn. They get into what matters most in a pediatrician-parent relationship, what’s actually worth worrying about (and what isn’t), and how to navigate the early avalanche of advice, anxiety, and sleep deprivation. It’s a conversation that grounds you in the basics—without making you feel like you have to get it all right.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode may contain explicit language. |
| 0:03.5 | Welcome to Karen Feeding, the show where we raise the next generation together. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Zach Rosen. |
| 0:08.8 | Today on the show, I'm talking to Dr. Joanna Parga Balinky, a neonatologist, author, and co-host of the AAP's Pediatrics on-call podcast. |
| 0:18.7 | Dr. Parga Balinky is an assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at the Children's |
| 0:22.9 | Hospital of Philadelphia and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. In this episode, |
| 0:28.6 | we talk about the most important things Dr. Parga Balinky thinks you should know about newborn health, |
| 0:34.4 | how often babies should have checkups in the first year, what happens at |
| 0:37.8 | those visits, and how to think about vaccines in this really divisive world. Our conversation |
| 0:43.4 | after the break. |
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