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Overweight children are becoming common in Indian cities, and complications now appear in childhood. What to measure, what actually works, and what to avoid saying.
Most breastfeeding difficulties come down to attachment and are fixable. Painful feeding, low supply worries, mastitis and returning to work, addressed practically.
Diarrhoea kills children through dehydration, not infection. How to assess hydration at home, make and give ORS correctly, and recognise when a child needs hospital.
Young children get six to twelve infections a year and that is normal. How to tell ordinary viral illness from asthma, allergy or something needing investigation.
What happens in the neonatal unit, what corrected age means, kangaroo mother care, and the follow up a preterm baby needs through the first two years.
Children develop at different rates, but some delays need early intervention. The milestones by age, the red flags at each stage, and why waiting to see costs time.
Percentiles confuse most parents. What the growth chart actually measures, why the trend matters more than the number, and the patterns that need investigation.
Most newborns develop some yellowing and most need nothing. What separates normal physiological jaundice from the kind that needs phototherapy, and the timing that matters.
Fever is a symptom, not an illness, and the number matters less than how your child looks. The red flags by age, and why antibiotics usually are not the answer.
A parent's guide to the Indian immunisation schedule, which vaccines are optional, what side effects are normal, and what to do when a dose is missed.
