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my son take his first independent steps in his gait-trainer

Cultivating Flexible Hope: A look at the emotional cycles in chronic illness

Updated on February 25, 2022

By Laura Will Reprinted with permission from www.Knowrare.com Is cultivating flexible hope in the face of chronic illness possible? While stretching out my toddler’s stiff hamstrings, his physical therapist looked […]

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How to help young kids cope when a parent has to isolate

Updated on February 8, 2022

Reposted from Boston Children’s Hospital Posted on January 31, 2022 by Katie Paradis If you’ve tested positive for COVID-19 and need to isolate or quarantine, you may have questions and […]

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Defying The Odds

Updated on February 9, 2022

Your Daughter Will Never Walk or Talk. Defying the odds, Amy never thought she’d be able to have children. Her pregnancy was high-risk  due to her own medical issues. However, […]

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We All Know A Chair

Updated on February 9, 2022

Written by Amy Breen, a patient of The Feingold Center for Children We all know a chair. We’ve encountered that chair various times. I know I have, sometimes to get […]

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Dr. Catherine Nowak, Clinical Director of The Feingold Center for Children

Dr. Catherine Nowak’s Reflections on 2021

Updated on February 9, 2022

The Pandemic Impacts All of Our Children The COVID pandemic continues to impact the children and families cared for at The Feingold Center for Children. The kids have adapted to […]

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Charlotte with a feeding tube

“Everything Seemed Fine.”

Updated on February 9, 2022

Charlotte Couldn’t Feed Without Choking When Jenna gave birth to her second child, Charlotte, in September 2014 at Lowell General Hospital, “everything seemed fine,” she explained. However, Jenna discovered that […]

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Meet some of our inspiring patients.

Make A Gift, Change A Life

Updated on February 9, 2022

Today is Giving Tuesday, the global movement that raised $2.4 billion last year for nonprofit organizations to help transform our communities. After another unprecedented year living amidst a pandemic, we […]

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Bella and George

“She’s Fine, She’s Just Skinny.”

Updated on February 9, 2022

“She’s fine; she’s just skinny,” was what the pediatrician told Rachel Burton when her daughter, Bella, was two-and-a-half years old. Bella’s “failure to thrive” diagnosis meant that her height and […]

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Happy Thanksgiving & Get Ready for Giving Tuesday

Updated on February 9, 2022

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours! Last week, we discovered that $2.4 billion was donated in 2020 on Giving Tuesday from 75 different countries. To understand the sheer scale […]

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Did Someone Say, “Super Bowl”?

Updated on February 9, 2022

Did someone say that the Super Bowl is coming up? You thought that was in February, not in November. For nonprofit organizations, the equivalent of the Super Bowl is Giving Tuesday – […]

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