Several body systems may be involved.
Gut, skin, sleep, mood, focus, infections, food reactions, pain, and bladder symptoms often overlap in the same child.
Pediatric functional medicine · Reading, PA + telehealth in PA & NY
Pediatric functional medicine helps you understand what is going on with your child.
For children with chronic gut, skin, immune, or behavioral symptoms that no one has connected. We find the why, treat your child as a whole person, and make sure you finally feel heard.
- 25+ years pediatric experience
- Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (CPNP-PC)
- Board Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner (BC-FMP)
- Master of Science (MS)
- Advanced Practice Holistic Nurse
- Licensed in Pennsylvania + New York
- Pediatric Nursing Certification Board
- American Association of Natural Wellness Practitioners
Why families come to us
Finally, pediatric care that asks why.
Conventional care waits for something to go wrong. Pediatric functional medicine looks for the why behind your child's symptoms by reviewing the full history, running the testing that fits, and connecting the patterns, so your child can feel better and you can stop guessing.
The problem
Your child's symptoms may be connected, even when they show up in different parts of the body.
Many families arrive after urgent concerns have been ruled out and different clinicians have checked one piece at a time. Gut issues, skin flares, anxiety, focus problems, recurrent infections, pain, fatigue, food reactions, and bladder symptoms can feel scattered until someone maps the pattern and explains what may belong next.
You need usable information.
Parents come here needing clear education, testing guidance, and practical next steps they can use at home and discuss with other clinicians.
Gut health often belongs in the conversation.
Kim looks closely at how gut health may connect with immune function, skin, neurological health, inflammation, and whole-child wellness.
The solution
A whole-child functional medicine plan.
Pediatric functional medicine looks at how gut health, nutrition, environment, immune stress, infections, sleep, medications, family history, and lab patterns may fit together around your child's symptoms.
Kim turns that information into education, bloodwork or testing guidance when it can clarify the picture, and practical next steps your family can follow.
Start with the full story.
Kim looks at when symptoms started, what triggers flares, what helps, and which patterns show up across stool, skin, sleep, mood, focus, pain, infections, and bladder concerns.
Use labs when they can guide care.
Stool testing, food sensitivity work, mold or tick-borne panels, and other functional labs are considered when the results can help shape the plan.
Turn findings into next steps.
Recommendations are prioritized around nutrition, lifestyle, environmental changes, supportive care when appropriate, referrals, and follow-up support.
Meet your guide 
Specializing in pediatric functional medicine with a gut-health lens.
Calm Wellness is led by Kimberly Baggio, MS, CPNP-PC, BC-FMP, a certified pediatric nurse practitioner with 25+ years of clinical experience. She helps parents understand how gut health, nutrition, environment, immune patterns, and lifestyle can shape a child's overall functioning. She also knows the parent side of complex illness from helping her own sons through Lyme, mold exposure, Hashimoto's, and severe allergies.
Board-certified through the American Association of Natural Wellness Practitioners, with advanced pediatric and functional medicine training.
Start with a simple consult, then choose the right level of care.
The plan gives you a clinical map: what may be connected, what testing can clarify, which care path makes sense, and what your family can start changing first.
- 01 Step 1
Start with a free 15-minute consult.
Share your goals and the short version of your child's story. Kim will tell you whether Calm Wellness is a fit and what level of care belongs next.
- 02 Step 2
Build the clinical map.
If you move forward, Kim reviews the timeline, symptoms, diet, sleep, environment, medications, past labs, infections, and gut-health clues.
- 03 Step 3
Leave with prioritized next steps.
You receive education, testing recommendations when appropriate, and a practical plan for nutrition, lifestyle, environmental support, referrals, or deeper care.
Conditions and symptom patterns we support.
Gut health is a core clinical lens at Calm Wellness, and many children arrive with symptoms that cross gut, skin, immune, neurological, urinary, and inflammatory systems.
Gut and food patterns
When stool, reflux, bloating, food reactions, or picky eating are part of the bigger picture.
Brain, behavior, and development
When attention, anxiety, sleep, mood, pain, or development seem connected to the body.
Immune, infection, and inflammation
When flares, infections, tick-borne concerns, or immune patterns keep returning.
Skin, breathing, bladder, and environment
When symptoms show up across body systems and the broader pattern needs attention.
Start with the consult. Then choose the care path that fits.
The consult is the front door. From there, Kim may recommend a focused package, deeper support, targeted testing, wellness support, or telehealth when it fits.
Primary next step Free
Free 15-minute consult
Tell us what is going on. We will tell you whether Calm Wellness is the right fit and which starting point makes sense.
Start with the free consult 6-week package Consult-first
GI Reset mini package
A focused 6-week path for chronic constipation, reflux, food sensitivity patterns, and eczema with a gut connection.
See GI Reset Structured care Consult-first
4-Month Concierge
Structured care for PANS/PANDAS, Lyme, mold, autoimmune patterns, severe ADHD complexity, or multi-system symptoms.
See concierge care Testing Varies by lab
Functional lab testing
Targeted stool, food sensitivity, bloodwork, mold, tick-borne, and other labs when results can guide care.
See lab testing Wellness support Consult-first
Healthy Child Wellness Support
Holistic support for generally healthy children around immune resilience, routines, recovery, and everyday wellness questions.
See wellness support Remote care PA + NY
Pediatric telehealth
Secure video visits, local lab options, home kits when appropriate, and practical follow-up for Pennsylvania and New York families.
See telehealthFrom scattered answers to a clearer next step.
Most families arrive with pieces: symptoms, labs, specialist notes, diet changes, and unanswered questions. Calm Wellness helps organize those pieces into a clinical map parents can use.
Families keep chasing scattered recommendations.
- More appointments where one piece is checked and the bigger pattern is missed.
- More supplements, food rules, and internet advice with no clinical map.
- More months where your child keeps adapting life around symptoms.
After · With Calm Wellness
Parents know what to do next.
- You understand the likely drivers behind your child's symptoms.
- You have testing and a plan that replaces scattered guesses.
- You know when to stay the course, when to adjust, and when to involve another specialist.
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What you get with us
Read the full promise Care that connects the pieces.
You'll understand the pattern.
Real testing, plain English, and a plan that explains what belongs next after months or years of uncertainty.
The plan fits the child.
Recommendations are explained in plain English and prioritized around your child's history, testing, tolerance, and family capacity.
We stay with hard cases.
Complex pediatric symptoms take time. We are here for the slow weeks, the setbacks, the flares, and the breakthrough moments.
Families come here when the usual answers leave questions open.
“Our doctor was amazed at how my child's cholesterol and sugars responded to Kim's recommendations. Best of all, we avoided statin medications!”
“Kim transformed our approach to health! Our daughter is thriving, and we feel empowered to make informed decisions about her wellness.”
“Kim took a holistic approach to my son's reflux. We noticed improvement very quickly and finally felt we were helping the root of the problem.”
Start here
Start with a free 15-minute consult.
Tell us what has been going on. Kim will help you understand whether Calm Wellness is the right fit and which care path makes sense for your child.