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Maternal-Newborn & Paediatric Nursing · Chapter 11 · Section 3

The Age Dial: Feeding, Sleep, Teeth and Immunisation

Almost every health-promotion instruction in the first years of life is a threshold — a thing that is dangerous on one side of a date and correct on the other. Turn the dial and watch honey, cow’s milk, juice, solids, peanut, toothpaste and whole grapes each flip from “not yet” to “now”. Then work the supplement arithmetic, and sort the small number of true immunisation contraindications from the much longer list of things that families and staff wrongly believe are contraindications.

Set the age

6months

Tap any rule to see why the threshold sits where it does.

The age dialEvery rule below is a threshold, not an opinion
Waiting
Move the dial, or tap a rule.