Stage 5 of 6 · 0–12 months
Baby
The first year is full of change. Keep your baby’s clinic card safe and take it to every visit — it records vaccines and growth, and helps any health worker understand your baby quickly.
In this stage
- Breastfeeding and knowing your baby is getting enough
- The vaccine schedule on your baby’s clinic card
- Growth checks and what the chart shows
- Starting other foods at around six months
- Fever and other signs that need a same-day visit
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Breastfeeding in the first weeks
Getting started, a comfortable latch, and simple ways to know your baby is getting enough milk.
Take these to your next visit.
- Which vaccines is my baby due next?
- Is my baby growing well on the chart?
- How can I tell my baby is getting enough milk?
- When and how should I start other foods?
- Which signs mean I should bring my baby in the same day?
Screenshot this list, or copy it onto the back of your clinic card. Ask one at a time — you are allowed to.
Opens the clinic list, filtered to places that offer this.