Your baby is finally here, but where's the instruction manual? Here are some tips to help you care for your baby during the first few months.

Baby Basics

• Burping Your Baby
• Choking
• Diaper Rash
• Diapering Your Baby
• Oral Thrush
• Your Child's Checkup: 2 to 4 Weeks
• Your Child's First Checkup: The Hospital

The First Few Days

• Birthmarks
• Bonding With Your Baby
• Bringing Your Baby Home
• Circumcision
• Communication and Your Newborn
• How Can I Overcome Breastfeeding Difficulties?
• Looking at Your Newborn: What's Normal
• Postpartum Depression
• What Is the Apgar Score?
• When Your Baby Has a Birth Defect
• When Your Baby Is Born With a Health Problem
• When Your Baby's in the NICU
• Your Child's First Checkup: The Hospital

Your Baby's Medical Care

• Circumcision
• Finding Your Way in the Health Care System
• Finding a Doctor for Your Child
• Frequently Asked Questions About Immunizations
• How to Talk to Your Child's Doctor
• Immunization Schedule
• Newborn Screening Tests
• Taking Your Preemie Home
• When Your Baby Has a Birth Defect
• When Your Baby Is Born With a Health Problem
• When Your Baby's in the NICU
• Your Child's Checkup: 12 Months (1 Year)
• Your Child's Checkup: 15 Months
• Your Child's Checkup: 18 Months ( 1-1/2 Years)
• Your Child's Checkup: 2 Months
• Your Child's Checkup: 2 Years
• Your Child's Checkup: 2 to 4 Weeks
• Your Child's Checkup: 3 Years
• Your Child's Checkup: 5 Years
• Your Child's Checkup: 6 Months
• Your Child's Checkup: 9 Months
• Your Child's Checkups
• Your Child's First Checkup: The Hospital
• Your Child's Immunizations

Feeding Your Baby

• Breastfeeding FAQs: Getting Started
• Breastfeeding FAQs: How Much and How Often
• Breastfeeding FAQs: Out and About
• Breastfeeding FAQs: Pain and Discomfort
• Breastfeeding FAQs: Pumping
• Breastfeeding FAQs: Safely Storing Breast Milk
• Breastfeeding FAQs: Sleep - Yours and Your Baby's
• Breastfeeding FAQs: Solids and Supplementing
• Breastfeeding FAQs: Some Common Concerns
• Breastfeeding FAQs: Supply and Demand
• Breastfeeding FAQs: Your Eating and Drinking Habits
• Breastfeeding vs. Formula Feeding
• Burping Your Baby
• Cleft Lip and Palate
• Egg Allergy
• Feeding Your Newborn
• Formula Feeding FAQs: Getting Started
• Formula Feeding FAQs: How Much and How Often
• Formula Feeding FAQs: Preparation and Storage
• Formula Feeding FAQs: Some Common Concerns
• Formula Feeding FAQs: Starting Solids and Milk
• Formula Feeding FAQs: Supplementing
• How Can I Overcome Breastfeeding Difficulties?
• Milk Allergy in Infants
• Nut and Peanut Allergy
• Stopping the Bottle
• Weaning Your Child

Sleep & Your Baby

• Cosleeping and Your Baby
• Positional Plagiocephaly (Flattened Head)
• Sleep and Newborns
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Your Baby's Growth

• Failure to Thrive
• Growth Charts
• Growth and Your Newborn

Your Baby's Development

• Communication and Your 1- to 2-Year-Old
• Communication and Your 1- to 3-Month-Old
• Communication and Your 4- to 7-Month-Old
• Communication and Your 8- to 12-Month-Old
• Learning, Play, and Your Newborn
• Movement, Coordination, and Your Newborn
• The Senses and Your Newborn

Medical Problems & Your Baby

• A Primer on Preemies
• Abusive Head Trauma (Shaken Baby Syndrome)
• Apnea of Prematurity
• Birth Defects
• Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD)
• Choking
• Cleft Lip and Palate
• Common Diagnoses in the NICU
• Constipation
• Could That Lump Be a Hernia?
• Erythema Toxicum
• Febrile Seizures
• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• If Your Child Has a Heart Defect
• Intestinal Malrotation
• Intussusception
• Jaundice in Healthy Newborns
• Lead Poisoning
• Meconium Aspiration
• Milk Allergy in Infants
• Necrotizing Enterocolitis
• Neonatal Infections
• Positional Plagiocephaly (Flattened Head)
• Pyloric Stenosis
• Sepsis
• Spina Bifida
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
• Teething Tots
• The Facts on Undescended Testicles
• Transient Tachypnea of the Newborn (TTN)
• Your Colicky Baby