Guides
Some questions do not fit in a table.
- 19 September 20265 min read
What to watch, and what to have checked
'Some children just talk late' and 'early intervention has a window' are both true. The difficulty is telling which one applies to the child in front of you. This separates normal variation from the signals worth acting on.
- 19 September 20264 min read
How to read a growth chart
The page of curves in the health record is the densest piece of information in routine child health, and the most frequently misread. Understanding it saves a lot of unnecessary worry, and catches the real problems earlier.
- 19 September 20264 min read
What a sleep regression actually is
Regression is a bad word for it, because it implies sleep goes back to how it was. At four months it does not. Understanding the mechanism behind each episode of night waking beats working through every settling technique in turn.
- 19 September 20265 min read
Starting solids, properly
Few parenting topics carry as much contradictory advice. This is the sequence as WHO and current national guidelines actually set it out: when to begin, what the first mouthful should be, what order to follow, and which old rules have been reversed.