Querida,

In the USA, most parents take their children to the pediatrician or family
practitioner at 2 weeks, 2 months, 4 months, 6 months and 12 months.  There
is no law requiring this, but that schedule follows along nicely with the
immunization schedule in the US.  I needed a physician's order to get the
immunizations, which, at least in the military health care system,
necessitated an office visit.

No-one would have known if I hadn't taken my children for their well-baby
checks, but I probably would have  been lectured about it when they got ill
and needed to be seen.

> Why do we have so many queries on Lactnet concerning parents of
> healthy children with low weight gains being given feeding information
> from Paediatricians? Is it law in the USA to have health checks every
> year or number of months?

Kathy, in Great Mills, MD, USA, about 65 miles Southeast of Washington DC,
in very rural St. Mary's County

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Kathy Koch, BSEd, IBCLC
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"Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they
miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when
raking leaves. ~Marcelene Cox ~