There’s no blood test or scan for colic in babies. Doctors reach this diagnosis by pattern alone, watching for a fussy, otherwise healthy infant who cries for more than three hours a day, on at least three days a week, stretching past three weeks. That’s...
Medically Reviewed by Dr. Reshma Krishna Priya, MBBS, DNB (Obstetrics & Gynaecology), Fellowship in Fetal Medicine Missing a period once in a while can happen for many reasons. But when three months pass without one, it’s fair to start wondering what’s...
The first trimester is usually quiet on this front, preeclampsia rarely shows up that early. Most cases surface after week 20, in the second or third trimester, and sometimes it even waits until after delivery. High blood pressure sits at the centre of it, often...
Premature babies often remain smaller than full-term babies during the early months. At 3 months, their growth is assessed using birth weight, gestational age, feeding progress and corrected age, rather than by comparing them with every baby of the same calendar age....
The real question behind choosing a pediatrician isn’t which doctor treats illness well, it’s which one actually understands how a child’s body and behavior change as they grow. Location and office hours matter more than people admit, since a clinic...
A child needs this kind of specialist when something in their body, whether present from birth or picked up along the way, calls for an operation rather than medicine alone. Pediatric surgeons train specifically for that, working on bodies that are still growing and...
