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… Feeding your baby formula: Safely making and storing formula Last updated … nurse or registered dietitian. Child Nutrition Series Preventing choking in babies and young children: For child care …
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… Interactive Tool: What Is Your Child's BMI? On this page: What does this tool help you … does this tool help you learn? This tool calculates your child's body mass index (BMI), which provides a way to … effect of weight on health. This tool also gives you your child's percentile on a growth chart. The percentile is the …
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… Making It Easier to Wear a Mask to Help Prevent Infections On this page: Overview Overview Why is it … washing your hands a lot, is one of the best ways to help prevent the spread of infections like influenza (flu) and … your mask for a long time. So make sure you drink enough. Prevent skin problems. Wash your face daily to help keep …
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… Down Syndrome: Helping Your Child Learn to Communicate On this page: Overview Related … as speech abilities develop. Simple measures can help your baby to develop speech and language skills: Look directly at your baby when you talk to him or her. Soon your baby will …
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… year Last updated January 26, 2018 The first time your baby gets a cold, fever or upset stomach, it's normal to worry. But knowing the symptoms of common baby illnesses, and learning how to deal with them, can help … Many over the counter medicines are not safe for children under six years old. Diarrhea Diarrhea is often …
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… newborn VIDEO: Admission to postpartum - keeping your baby skin-to-skin VIDEO: Baby's feeding cues and behaviours VIDEO: Breastfeeding … methods VIDEO: Hand expressing milk VIDEO: Latching your baby … A video about baby feeding cues and behaviours …
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… Umbilical Hernia: Should My Child Have Surgery? Decision Point You may want to have a … may be helpful as you make important health decisions. My baby was born with an umbilical hernia that really wasn't … was gone. I'm glad we didn't try surgery on such a little baby. I would have felt terrible putting him through that …
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… 3 Months On this page: Overview Overview You can watch your baby's behaviour to check for hearing loss. If you notice a change, your baby might have hearing loss. Does your baby: Listen to speech? Turn to you when you speak? Smile …
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… 1 Year On this page: Overview Overview You can watch your baby's behaviour to check for hearing loss. If you notice a change, your baby might have hearing loss. Does your baby: Listen when spoken to? Turn or look up when you call …
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… Ear Infection: Should I Give My Child Antibiotics? Decision Point You may want to have a say … all instructions on the label. If you give medicine to your baby, follow your doctor's advice about what amount to give. … children under age 2 or who are very sick, antibiotics may prevent problems from the infection, such as trouble with …
