Infant Sleep
If you know anything about your baby’s sleeping pattern, it’s probably that it doesn’t coincide with yours. But learning more about your baby’s nighttime and daytime sleep needs can help you recognize what’s normal — and what’s not.
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Healthy Sleep Habits
The normal amount of sleep varies depending on the age of your child. A 2-year-old needs 10 to 12 hours a night, plus naps during the day. By age 6, a child usually has dropped naps, but still needs 10 hours at night.
Toilet Training (Potty Training)
Toilet training should begin when your child shows signs that they are ready. There is no right age to begin.
Infant Feeding Guide
How much, what, and when to feed your baby can seem daunting. But this cheat sheet will give you the information you need to start your baby on the right “nutritional” foot.
Getting Ready for Your Newborn at Home
Newborns need just some basic items at first — a warm and safe place to sleep, food, clothing, and diapers.
Rash Information
Many conditions affect the skin, some causing local rashes and others causing rashes that involve the entire body.
Poison Ivy, Poison Oak and Poison Sumac
Poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac are common causes of seasonal, allergic contact dermatitis (rash). As many as seven out of every 10 people has a reaction after an exposure to these plants.
Human Papillomavirus: The Disease & Vaccines
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is recommended to all adolescents between 11 and 12 years of age to protect them from genital warts and certain types of cancers.
Child Life Services at the Cardiac Center
Child Life Services at CHOP helps patients in the Cardiac Center and their families minimize stress and learn positive coping skills.
Tools to Help with Stress: Tapping
This resource from Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) describes how to perform different types of tapping exercises to to help decrease anxiety and distress.