Baby and Child Health in India: Age-by-Age Guides

Most health questions in the first three years are the same ones, asked at two in the morning. Is this fever worth a doctor. Is she eating enough. Why has he stopped sleeping.

These are the guides we have written for those questions, grouped by when you are likely to need them.

Month by month

What is normal at each stage, and the red flags that are not.

Your 1-month-old — feeding frequency, weight, and what is normal in the first weeks

Your 3-month-old — milestones, and the first real sleep questions

Your 6-month-old — first foods, vaccines, and what you actually need to buy

Your 9-month-old — finger foods, crawling, and the red flags worth a call

Your 12-month-old — cow’s milk, walking, and weaning off the bottle

Your 18-month-old — tantrums, first words and fussy eating, all at once

Feeding

From first solids to a toddler who refuses dal.

Introducing solids — when to start, baby-led weaning, and Indian first foods

Toddler nutrition — iron, calcium and the foods that matter most in Indian diets

Sleep

The part nobody warns you about twice.

Safe sleep — co-sleeping setups that are genuinely safe

Sleep regressions — the 18-month and 2-year ones, and how long they last

When they are unwell

Fever, colds, and the kit worth having at home.

Thermometers — which reading to trust, and when a fever needs a doctor

Blocked noses — why saline drops come before any aspirator

Nebulisers — what to buy if your child is prescribed one every winter

Air quality at home — what a purifier does and does not fix in a high-AQI city

Skin

Indian weather is hard on baby skin.

Which brand is actually safe — ingredients compared across the brands sold here

Baby massage — oil, technique and timing, with what the research supports

Diaper rash — treating it, preventing it, and when it is something else

A safer home

The changes that prevent the common accidents.

Baby proofing, room by room — sockets, balconies, kitchens, stairs

Why not a walker — the IAP position, and what helps walking instead

Car seat safety — the restraint guide, including why rear-facing for longer

Pregnancy

Before any of the above.

Pregnancy week by week — what is happening, and what to expect, week by week

Prenatal vitamins — what the first trimester needs

Pregnancy skincare — what is safe to keep using, and what to drop

Postpartum recovery — what no one tells Indian mothers, including about the mind

The tool that goes with this

We built the vaccination schedule — put in your baby’s date of birth and it gives you the IAP schedule with real due dates, from birth to twelve years. It is free and there is no sign-up.