Preparing Your Child for Pokes

Preparing Your Child for Pokes

Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Health network is dedicated to making your child’s experience with any poke, from vaccination, IV start or lab draw, as easy and stress-free as possible. We recognize the “poke” (needle stick) may be a bit uncomfortable, but if we work...
Managing Diabetes During the Holidays

Managing Diabetes During the Holidays

With Thanksgiving and Christmas right around the corner, it is important to be aware of the extra food and treats your child will be offered during holiday parties, especially for children with diabetes Diabetes is a metabolic disease in which the body is unable to...
Finding Family in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Finding Family in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Although they live in Monroe, Meghan and Joseph Duckett find themselves at home at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Health in Baton Rouge.   When their oldest son, Noah, was a baby they made the three-hour drive south, following the ambulance to Our Lady of the Lake...