Keeping Your Kids Heart Healthy

The PedsDocTalk Podcast: Child Health, Development & Parenting—From a Pediatrician Mom

Dr. Mona Amin

Medicine, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

As parents, one of our hopes is to allow our children to live a long and healthy life. Part of this, is creating heart healthy habits for our children. I welcome Dr. Renee Rodriguez (Paro), who is a Pediatric Cardiologist and mom, to talk all about how we promote heart healthy habits for our patients and our own families. We discuss the importance of creating heart-healthy habits and offer simple ways to make this a possibility for your family. What are some ways we can create heart-healthy habits? Why is this important? How can we teach our children the importance of this? What are screening tests done in Pediatrics for heart health? What do Pediatric Cardiologists do as a specialty? Tune in as we discuss heart health for our children in honor of American Heart Month Make sure to follow @pedsdoctalk and @drreneeparo on Instagram for more tips! Check out my weekly videos on child health & development by ⁠⁠subscribing to PedsDocTalk on YouTube⁠⁠. Get trusted pediatric advice, relatable parenting insights, and evidence-based tips delivered straight to your inbox—join thousands of parents who rely on the PDT newsletter to stay informed, supported, and confident. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Join the newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! And don’t forget to follow ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@pedsdoctalkpodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ on Instagram—our new space just for parents looking for real talk and real support. We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on the ⁠⁠⁠⁠PedsDocTalk Podcast Sponsorships⁠⁠⁠⁠ page of the website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to episode 53 keeping your kids heart healthy.
0:15.0	Hello. Hello and welcome to this week's episode where I am welcoming Dr.
0:18.0	Renee Rodriguez Paro, who is a board certified pediatric cardiologist
0:23.0	and is on Instagram as Dr Renee Paro.
0:26.2	And I welcome her today to talk about
0:29.1	how you can keep your kids heart healthy
0:31.6	from a young age in honor of American Heart Month.
0:34.6	Thank you for being here today Dr. Paro.
0:36.8	I'm so excited to be here.
0:38.9	Well I'm going to be calling you Renee during the rest of the episode episode but I am so glad that we got to
0:43.8	connect on Instagram you are one of the first doctors I started following when I got
0:47.7	on Instagram I love what you share in terms of mommy life but I also love what you
0:52.4	share in terms of yourmy life but I also love what you share in terms of your fitness journey and obviously as a pediatric cardiologist.
0:56.7	So why did you become a pediatric cardiologist?
0:59.2	So first of all I'm very excited to have connected with you as well, Mona.
1:03.2	You're a fantastic pediatrician and if one thing
1:06.7	pediatric subspecialists know for sure is that pediatricians are the backbone of our specialty.
1:14.4	So we appreciate all that you do
1:17.1	and all that my pediatric colleagues do.
1:20.6	But so pediatric cardiology kind of it was it was a bit circuitous. I think I came into it a little later than a lot of pediatric cardiologist that I've met who have kind of found out about the field early on and kind of knew for a long time that they wanted to do that.
1:39.0	From a young age, I wanted to be a doctor, I got a chance to be in the delivery room of one of my aunts when I was eight years old and so from there I knew I got that sensation that I think a lot of us get when we are in medicine that this is like a really cool thing and interesting in it,
1:54.7	liked being in the hospital, liked that setting.
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