Care & Feeding | A Doctor’s Take on Your Newborn Worries

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🗓️ 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. Join us on Facebook and email us at [email protected] to ask questions, share feedback, and suggest future topics. You can also call our phone line: (646) 357-9318. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an extra weekly grab-bag of content on the Plus Playground, an ad-free experience across the network, and support the work we do here on Care and Feeding. Sign up now at slate.com/careplus — or try it out on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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 those
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