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Help – I cannot get to the clinic for my new baby vaccines – What should I do? Firstly, congratulations on the birth of your new baby – an event to be enjoye...

Keeping our Young Patients' Minds Active - Competition Time!!! Do you have a budding young artist or author in the family? We would welcome any pictures and...

We fully appreciate that coronavirus is especially worrying for all our families. We will do our absolute best to support you and please be assured that an...

Breast milk is best for babies. It provides all the nourishment that a young baby needs, as well as many other non-nutritive factors such as antibodies. The ...

Every baby is unique and develops their motor, cognitive (learning), visual and auditory and speech and language skills at their own rate. Likewise language ...

The following describes what we know as of early February 2020 regarding the clinical presentation of patients with confirmed infection due to the Coronaviru...

If you wish to have your baby's ears pierced, it is worth considering the safety issues and the small risk of infection. With these in mind, it is better to w...

Cause: Bronchiolitis is a common viral infection of the small airways (bronchioles). Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) causes 80% of these infections. Others...

If ever there was a topic inclined to raise strong feelings amongst parents, grandparents, healthcare workers and presumably babies themselves, then this is ...

Past studies have suggested a potential link between vitamin D deficiency in mothers of infants and the risk of developing an allergic condition such as ecze...

Motor coordination difficulties are common in children and could result in children struggling to achieve at home and school. Developmental Coordination Diso...

During winter the skin is particularly susceptible to the cold weather and the dry air. This can result in the skin showing signs of dryness, which in turn l...

Every day children under the age of five, which is the most vulnerable age, are admitted to hospital with serious burns. A burn can be caused by dry heat, by...

Cerebral palsy is the name for a group of lifelong conditions that affect movement and co-ordination, caused by a problem with the brain that occurs before, ...

Headaches in children are common and usually aren't serious. Similar to adults, children can develop different types of headaches, including migraines or str...

Molluscum contagiosum (MC) is a viral infection that affects the skin and is quite common in children between 1 and 12 years. There can be a few spots or ma...

Newborn jaundice is common and usually harmless! It appears at about 3 days after birth and disappears by 2 weeks of age. In premature babies, it can tak...

For a child and their parents, gaining control over their bladder and bowel is a key developmental milestone like learning to walk and talk. Most children ...

At some point, your baby will almost certainly develop a high temperature. The average baby has around 7 viral illnesses a year, resulting in 7 episodes of ...

What exactly is the belly button? During pregnancy the placenta and developing baby are connected to each other by the umbilical cord. The umbilical cord de...