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Introducing—the Breastfeeding Association of T&T
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, April 28, 2015I was at the Maraval RC Church on Saturday for a christening. Afterwards, the christening party retired up to Paramin for the day. I’ve always...
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Simple things, little things
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, May 5, 2015The management of sickness can be divided in two. One is for the physician to prescribe “big things” like surgery or medication. The other is for “little...
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Education the solution to breastfeeding woes
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, May 12, 2015Breastfeeding rates are decreasing all over the Caribbean. The main reasons that mothers give for this are:1) “Not enough milk, the baby keeps crying...
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Maternity leave
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, May 19, 2015Well, we had the First National Breastfeeding Symposium, sponsored by the Ministry of Health and the Breastfeeding Association, at the Hyatt Regency...
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Testing porn’s effect on children
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, May 26, 2015Your child is looking at porn! And you’re scared, right?Porn is ubiquitous. It is everywhere, in magazines, books, the cinema, in your head, in the...
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Children with disabilities
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, June 2, 2015T&T is now in the third Phase of Child Health. The First Phase lasted approximately from Independence when the first local paediatricians arrived...
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Unhealthy weight
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, June 9, 2015At five years old, children throughout the Caribbean are already getting overweight and obese. From Belize in the north to Guyana in the south, about...
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The ugly Trini
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, June 16, 2015One day we were discussing the mess that Venezuela’s leaders have made of their country and the Venezuelan lady said to me, with pride, “You know, it...
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Antenatal care—first step in preventing adult obesity
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, June 23, 2015Right! We have an outbreak of overweight children right now in the country. If the problem was “flu,” we would long have given it a name, “the Porky...
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The wisdom of the body
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, June 30, 2015When moms say their toddler is not eating “the way she should” or talk about “rules of eating” and their toddler’s eating habits, you know, eating one...
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The wisdom of the child
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, July 7, 2015So most toddlers have no fixed way of eating. Some days they eat “normal” or what the books written by “experts” (most of whom have no children), say is...
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We all need to get real
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, July 14, 2015According to the historian Yuval Noah Harari in his new book, Sapiens, “imagined realities” are networks of stories that everyone believes in and as...
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free play, for child’s sake
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, July 21, 2015Free play, as opposed to imagined play, ie structured play organised and led by adults, is very much a non-topic everywhere, even though the isolated,...
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Remembering Kevin
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, July 28, 2015Kevin died more than 30 years ago. I have not forgotten the night he died nor the manner of his death. He was not my patient but everyone in Peds knew...
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A mother-friendly workplace
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, August 4, 2015In his masterpiece, Sapiens: A Brief History of Mankind, the Israelite historian, Yuval Noah Harari, writes about myths or “imagined realities.”...
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The blue house on the hill
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, August 11, 2015The view from where I sit on the porch is of the Atlantic sea pouring tirelessly onto the Barbados coast. The sound is of pounding waves; wave after...
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Memories to hold on to
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, August 18, 2015First meetings can set a trend for the rest of your life. I met up with Barbados in 1978. I had just been appointed Lecturer in Child Health and my...
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A morning walk
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, August 25, 2015Alarm did not go off as he had set it, at five. After the night’s shenanigans, inside and outside the house, he was lucky to be up at 5.20 am. Fun...
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Exhausted with these politicians
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, September 1, 2015I think it was a former PM who once referred to T&T as “a little black speck” somewhere in the Atlantic? A speck of little importance, despite...
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Life in T&T
David E Bratt, MDPublished: Tuesday, September 8, 2015The day after elections and whatever has happened, we have to get on with life in T&T, so, in the spirit of togetherness and with their...
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