How to use this Child Health Guide

Each page of the Child Health Guide covers an important health care topic.

• Read each page carefully and ask your child's doctor or other health care provider to answer any questions that you may have.

• The Preventive Care Timeline in the center of this booklet gives an overview of care your child may need at each age.

• Use the records throughout the Child Health Guide to keep track of the immunizations (shots), tests, exams, and other types of health care that your child gets. Use these records to remind you when your child needs to be seen next.

• Take the Child Health Guide home and keep it in a safe place. Check it often to make sure that you child is getting the preventive health care that he or she needs. Keep the Child Health Guide up-to-date.

• Bring the Child Health Guide every time your child goes to a doctor or other health care provider--such as a nurse, nurse practitioner, or a physician assistant.

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