How DrParenting Works
DrParenting is the product side of DrSensory. It covers baby and parenting products, and it makes money through affiliate links and occasional paid placements, both of which are labeled on the page where they appear. It is deliberately kept separate from our clinical content: DrParenting is written by our editorial team and is not medically reviewed, while our therapy and condition pages carry a named clinician wherever one has reviewed them. That separation is the point. A product recommendation and a clinical position are different kinds of statement, and mixing them would make both less trustworthy.
How we make money
Stated plainly, because you should be able to read our recommendations knowing this.
What affiliate links are
Some links to products earn us a commission if you buy. It costs you nothing extra, and the price is the same whether you use our link or not.
Every page containing affiliate links says so at the top. Individual links carry a sponsored attribute, which is how search engines are told the relationship exists.
What a paid placement is
Occasionally a brand pays for a product to be featured. When that happens, it is labeled as a paid placement on the page, not in a footer and not in small print.
A paid placement means the product appears. It does not mean we say it is good. If we have reservations, we say them.
What money does not buy
No commercial relationship affects our clinical content. A brand cannot pay to be mentioned in an article about sensory processing, torticollis, or feeding difficulty. Those pages carry no affiliate links and no paid placements.
No brand sees a review before it publishes, and no brand has approval over what we write.
A negative assessment stays negative. If we would not use something, we say so, and we say why.
How we choose what to recommend
Where product information comes from
- Manufacturer documentation, for materials, dimensions, age ratings, safety certifications, and care instructions. We do not infer specifications — if we cannot verify something, we say we could not.
- Hands-on use, where we have it — and we say when we have not.
- Safety standards and recall databases, checked before we recommend anything for infants.
What we will not claim
No product on DrParenting treats, prevents, or improves a medical condition. These are consumer goods, not medical devices.
We describe what something is designed to do. We do not tell you it will fix a problem.
Why this is separate from our clinical content
DrSensory publishes two different kinds of thing, and they are held to different standards.
| Clinical content | DrParenting | |
|---|---|---|
| Reviewed by | A named clinician, where we have one in that field | The editorial team |
| Affiliate links | None | Yes, labeled |
| Paid placements | None | Occasionally, labeled |
| Schema | MedicalWebPage, with reviewedBy | WebPage, no reviewedBy |
| What it does | Explains conditions, therapy, and evidence | Reviews and recommends products |
Keeping them apart is not a formality. A clinical page carries a credential. A product page carries a commercial relationship. Putting both on one page would mean a reader could not tell which they were reading, and the credential would be doing work it was never meant to do.
So the separation is structural: different URLs, different bylines, different schema, and no commercial links in clinical content.
When a clinician does weigh in
Occasionally one of our founders comments on a product within their own field. Where that happens, three things are true.
- It is a scoped opinion, not a clinical review. Dr. Yana Pekarski, DDS commenting on the design of a pacifier is a dentist’s view of a product category. It is not a recommendation for your individual child.
- It appears as clearly attributed prose, with their name and credential visible.
- It never appears in schema as reviewedBy. A clinician commenting on a product is not the same as a clinician reviewing clinical content, and marking it up that way would misrepresent both.
And a clinician note does not mean the product is endorsed by DrSensory or medically approved. It means someone qualified looked at it and said what they thought.
What we will not recommend
- Anything making a medical claim we could not support
- Anything with an open safety recall
- Products marketed as treating a condition — weighted sleep sacks marketed for sensory regulation, for instance, where the evidence does not support the claim
- Anything we could not verify the specifications for, on products intended for infants
- Anything a brand asked us to describe in words we do not agree with
How to tell us we got something wrong
If we have described a product inaccurately, missed a safety issue, or recommended something we should not have — tell us.
Email hello@drsensory.com with the page and what is wrong. We check it, correct it if warranted, and update the page date.
That applies to brands as well as readers. If we have described your product incorrectly, we would rather hear it.
Frequently asked questions
Does DrParenting make money from the products it recommends?
Does paying get a product a good review?
Can a brand pay to be mentioned in your clinical articles?
Is DrParenting content medically reviewed?
Do you test everything you recommend?
A doctor commented on a product. Does that mean it is medically approved?
Why keep the product section separate from the rest of the site?
What if I think you got something wrong?
DrParenting is written by the DrSensory editorial team and is not medically reviewed. For therapy and condition information, see our clinical content, which carries a named reviewer wherever one has reviewed it.