The health, growth and development of your baby in the first year of life should be monitored and monitored periodically – once a month – in addition to any visits you make if you are sick.

In health control the pediatrician:

• It controls growth.
• Supervises mature development.
• Helps in the beginning and continuation of exclusive breastfeeding, with information and support to solve the difficulties.
• Indicates and controls compliance with the vaccine schedule.
• Indicates complementary feeding at the right time. Type of mushrooms and their correct preparation.
• Supports and guides the affective bond between father and son and their family.
• Anticipates accident risk factors to develop prevention strategies and behaviors.
• Indicates the necessary measures to avoid the transmission and transmission of infectious diseases.
• It transmits health and disease information, based on scientific evidence and experience.
• It contributes to improving the knowledge of the different stages of maturity of your child, which allows to accompany their development better and offer the appropriate stimuli at each stage.
• Promotes mutual understanding between the child, his family and the pediatrician, for the benefit of all
• Listen, accompany, advise on facts and family crises that can affect the baby.
• It advises and advises on different situations related to the activities and care of the child.

The pediatrician is your child’s primary care physician. It is important that Dad and Mom talk periodically with him.

* Taken from the Argentine Society of Pediatrics.