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Night Sweats in Children: What's Normal and When to Worry
Lifting a toddler out of bed and finding their hair plastered down with sweat looks like illness. Most of the time it isn't. Children — particularly u...
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When Your Baby Is in the NICU: An Honest Parent's Guide
Almost no one prepares for a NICU admission. It usually starts with something going wrong — a premature labour, an emergency caesarean, a baby who arr...
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Newborn Weight Loss and Regain: What's Normal and When to Act
Almost every newborn loses weight in the first week, and almost every parent worries about it. Here's the short version: up to 10% of birth weight is...
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Newborn Weight Gain: What's Normal in the First 6 Months
Weight is the most-watched, most-misread number in early parenthood. It carries an outsized emotional weight, especially for breastfeeding parents ask...
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Monitoring Newborn Weight: Loss, Regain, and the Numbers That Matter
The number on the scales gets more attention than it deserves and less context than it needs. A single weight tells you almost nothing; a trend across...
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Trembling, Jitters, and the Startle Reflex: What's Normal in a Newborn
The dramatic startle, the trembling chin after a cry, the rhythmic shake of an arm during a nappy change — newborn movements are alarming to watch pre...
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Common Newborn Skin Conditions: What's Normal and What Needs a Doctor
Newborn skin produces a parade of rashes, blotches, and birthmarks in the first three months that look much more dramatic than they are. The vast majo...
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Newborn Jaundice: Treatment With Phototherapy and When to Worry
Jaundice keeps a fair proportion of newborns in hospital an extra day or two and accounts for a lot of readmissions in the first weeks. The yellow is...
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Newborn Jaundice: Normal or Not?
A yellow tint to a newborn's skin or eye whites is one of the most common findings in the first week. For most babies it is part of the normal newborn...
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The Newborn Hearing Test: What It Is, What It Checks, and What Happens If the Result Is Not Clear
The newborn hearing test takes about 5 minutes, runs while the baby is asleep, and is one of the most useful screens of early childhood. It is offered...
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Newborn Hearing Screening: What the Test Involves and What Results Mean
The Newborn Hearing Screening Programme is one of the highest-impact public health programmes the NHS runs. Before its rollout in 2005, most children...
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The First Month with a Newborn: What to Expect and How to Cope
The first month with a newborn is shorter than the second, but feels longer. Days bleed into nights, the baby's needs are constant and urgent, the par...
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Newborn Eye Conditions: What Is Normal and What Needs Assessment
Eyes worry parents. They look funny in different lights, they wander, they water, they get gunky, and they sometimes look frankly alarming after a har...
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The Newborn Check: What Happens and What They're Looking For
The newborn check looks impressively thorough — and is. A clinician systematically works through eyes, heart, hips, hands, palate, abdomen, genitals,...
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Understanding Newborn Crying: Types of Cries and What They Mean
One of the most persistent myths about newborn care is that a parent who pays close attention can learn to distinguish a hunger cry from a tired cry f...
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Nephrotic Syndrome in Children: What Parents Need to Know
Nephrotic syndrome tends to arrive without warning. A child with puffy eyes at breakfast looks unrecognisable by tea time. The face fills, the legs sw...
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The Neonatal Period: What Happens in the First 28 Days
The first month of a baby's life looks calm from outside and is anything but underneath. Lungs that have never breathed air are working. A heart that...
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Newborn Jaundice: Causes, Treatment, and When It Is a Concern
A yellow baby in the first week is one of the most common — and one of the most worried-about — things parents see. The reassuring truth is that the g...
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Neonatal Jaundice: Causes, What Is Normal, and When Treatment Is Needed
Yellow tint to the skin and the whites of the eyes is one of the most common things parents notice in the first week. For most babies it is part of th...
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Myopia in Children: Why Short-Sightedness Is Rising and What to Do About It
Short-sightedness used to run quietly in families and was treated as a minor inconvenience. That has changed. Myopia is now far more common in each su...
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