Sadly, hardly a day goes by without news of violent acts involving children. As a parent, you may be struggling with how to help your child feel safe. One of the most important things you can do for your child is to first take care of yourself.
It is important to remember that children look to their parents and other trusted adults to make them feel safe. They turn to us for assurance that they are secure as well as for information, comfort, and support.
If you feel like stress is getting in the way of your daily activities for several days in a row, the licensed professionals on Vecino’s counseling staff can help.
Ask for a telehealth counseling appointment. New patients are welcome!
Feelings of anxiety, fear, and worry about the safety of self and others are natural responses. In order to be effective and present for your children, it is imperative that you find the means and tools to take care of yourself emotionally, as well as physically.
Once you are able to harness your own feelings of safety within yourself, you are more easily able to transmit those feelings of safety to your children.
Don’t worry. Vecino Health Centers offers financial assistance so everyone in your family can get the medical, counseling, and dental services they need. You may even qualify for other benefits, we’ll help you understand your options.
Just ask about our Get Care program
Prenatal care is the health care you get while you are pregnant. Take care of yourself and your baby by:
If Dr. Magdalena Brooks had just one message for young women as they step into adulthood, it would be this: “Good care, even before getting pregnant, is really important. Caring for yourself before pregnancy minimizes the risk for complications.”
A native speaker of both Spanish and English, Dr. Magdalena Brooks brings expertise in prenatal care to Vecino Health Centers
Dr. Brooks is a native speaker of both Spanish and English and an expert in prenatal care and women’s health. She joins Vecino’s Denver Harbor Family Clinic to increase the options for patients who want prenatal care right at the clinic.
An accomplished family medicine practitioner and obstetrician, Dr. Brooks served most recently as Director of Women’s Health and Maternity Care and Faculty Physician for Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program/Memorial Hermann Hospital System.
Thanks to Dr. Brooks’ leadership, most patients can now get all of their prenatal care right at Denver Harbor Family Clinic. Ultrasounds are available in-house, and many patients with higher-risk pregnancies can continue their care at the clinic. Patients needing c-sections can now also continue their prenatal care at Denver Harbor.
After pregnancy, patients can also get help with postpartum depression and other postpartum care through behavioral health services at the clinic.
Vecino’s Denver Harbor Clinic is now accepting new and existing patients for family planning, pregnancy, and postpartum care. To schedule an appointment with Vecino’s Prenatal Services call 713-674-3326.
What other tests will I have to go through? Will I need treatment?
As if these worries weren’t enough, women with abnormal pap smears are usually sent to a specialist across town for inconvenient and time-consuming appointments.
Doctors from Houston Methodist’s OB/GYN department will staff a weekly clinic that lets women with abnormal pap smears see a specialist right in their primary care home.
If the test shows that your cervical cells don’t look normal, your doctor will tell you that you have an “abnormal pap smear.” This might turn out to be nothing, but it also might be a sign of infection or cervical cancer. You will probably need to have more tests to find out.
Call 713-674-3326
Women's Health Coordinator Maria Baltazar will answer your questions and provide information about the services available to you at Vecino's Denver Harbor Family Clinic during and after your pregnancy.