Women often are eager to shed extra weight after pregnancy, but the first workouts should be gentle and follow medical advice, doctors say. “It’s important that the focus of the first two weeks be taking care of the new baby and getting sufficient rest,” says Dr. Jeffrey Henke, an obstetrician/gynecologist in Newport News, Va. Some [...]

The memory from eight years ago is almost as vivid as if it had occurred only seconds ago.
My wife was in the recovery room at Penrose Community Hospital in Colorado Springs, having delivered our first child, a daughter who came early and under emergency conditions.
Behind drawn curtains in the crowded recovery room, we watched a [...]

No one, neither patient nor doctor, wants to learn firsthand what “exsanguination” means.
But Dianna Cillessen is thankful she stuck around long enough to hear the definition.
It means that when surgeons cut into her skin on a September day when she was as good as dead, no blood came out. There was none left.
The Arvada mom [...]

When Robert Martinich’s 14-year-old son brought home the R-rated movie “Bruno” home from the library this spring, the Highlands Ranch dentist was upset.
Since then, he has been challenging the Douglas County Libraries’ policy of allowing minors to rent R-rated DVDs. Currently, the library system does not restrict what a child can check out unless a [...]

That which we call a rose. By any other name would smell as sweet. William Shakespeare demonstrated the importance of a name…a name that could impact destiny, inhibit love, trigger rejection, provoke judgment and stir much anger with a simple mention.

Every month, Mile High Mamas features a Q & A from Children’s Hospital Colorado on a different health topic. This month’s topic is about preparing your body for a healthy pregnancy: a must-read for moms-to-be.

A few years ago, my husband and I were in the throes woes of potty training our potty-training-challenged daughter.
We had tried everything and were at the end of our ropes. That is when we heard about the Children’s Hospital Colorado’s free parenting seminars that include advice for parents with babies to teens.
Please note the 2011 [...]

As parents, we want to shield our children from the filth the world is constantly spewing a them. We want their little minds to remain free of dirty, violent, and sexual images or knowledge. If monitoring their tv and movie selections wasn’t enough, now we have to worry about the internet – it’s at school, [...]

Slumber parties have never been for the faint of heart, but a slumber party in the age of texting and tweeting is a veritable contact sport.
Which isn’t to say they should be avoided altogether. But if you want to escape emotional bloodshed, you’ll approach them with equal parts caution and strategy.
“I don’t think the goofy [...]

Recently men and women from all over the states ran though rain and sleet to complete the Colfax marathon in Denver. Soon, we will be adding a new set of faces to that finish line!
Our story: Jenifer was all limbs and sick of her classmates teasing her about her height. She learned to use [...]