Your child should not only see the pediatrician for an illness. It is also important to schedule well-child-care exams regularly, beginning in infancy.

Also called well-care visits or checkups, these routine examinations provide the best opportunity for the doctor to observe the progress of your child’s physical and mental growth and development; to counsel and teach parents; to detect problems through screening tests; to provide immunizations, and to get to know one another. Well-care visits are strongly recommended as part of preventive pediatric care.

Well-child visits are also a good time for parents to raise questions and concerns about a child’s development, behavior, nutrition, safety and overall well-being.

Our schedule for routine well-care visits:

• 3 to 5 days
• 2 weeks
• 1 month
• 2 months
• 3 months
• 4 months
• 5 months
• 6 months
• 7 months
• 8 months
• 9 months
• 10 months
• 11 months
• 12 months
• 14 months
• 16 months
• 18 months
• 21 months
• 2 years
• 2.5 years
• 3 years
• And once every year thereafter for an annual health supervision visit that includes a physical exam as well as a developmental and behavioral assessment.