Parent Advice Line - Topics Related to Healthy Children
The Children’s Hospital’s Parent Advice Line provides you with the quick tips you need on over 275 topics related to the health of your infant, child or teenager. These free and confidential messages have been developed by Dr. Bart Schmitt, a pediatrician at The Children’s Hospital.
- Find the topic you are interested in below.
- Dial 720-777-6543 or 800-613-4130.
- Enter the 4 digit code associated with the topic you are interested in to hear the recorded message.
Accident Prevention
Eating: Older Children
Feeding
Health Promotion: Staying Well
Infant Care
Newborn Care
Accident Prevention
- Animal bites: Prevention x8565
- Drowning: Prevention x8566
- Electrical shock: Prevention x8567
- Falls and head injury: Prevention x8568
- Hot weather illness: Prevention x8569
- Poisoning: Prevention x8570
- Swimming for toddlers x8730
- Walkers: A major health hazard x8731
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Eating: Older Children
- Appetite slump in toddlers x8700
- Cow’s milk: The facts x8560
- Fast food myths x8703
- Finicky eaters x8704
- Foods that cause choking x8702
- Healthy diet x8705
- Junk food myth x8706
- Keeping mealtime pleasant x8707
- Low cholesterol diet x8708
- Overweight preschoolers x8710
- Overweight preteens x8709
- Overweight teens x8711
- Playing with food x8712
- Six health problems relating to diet x8713
- Slow eaters and fast eaters x8714
- Snacks x8715
- The candy myth x8701
- The vitamin supplement myth x8716
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Feeding
- Breast-feeding and medications x8650
- Breast-feeding: How to improve milk supply x8651
- Breast-feeding: Is your baby getting enough? x8652
- Breast-feeding: Painful breasts or sore nipples x8653
- Breast-feeding: Supplemental formula or water x8654
- Breast-feeding: Vitamins and minerals x8655
- Finger foods x8656
- Formulas: Choosing the right one x8657
- Formula preparation and feeding x8658
- Nighttime feedings: Newborns x8659
- Overweight babies: Prevention x8660
- Solid foods: What and when x8661
- Spoon-feeding problems x8662
- Weaning from the bottle x8663
- Weaning from the breast x8664
- Weaning problems: Prevention x8665
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Health Promotion: Staying Well
- Baby-bottle tooth decay: Prevention x8750
- Baths: Too much soap x8751
- Chicken pox vaccine x8575
- Doctor visits: Making them go better x8752
- Immunization reactions x8576
- Immunizations: Recommended ones x8577
- Lead poisoning: Prevention x8578
- Secondhand smoke x8753
- Shoes x8754
- Skin cancer: Prevention x8755
- Stimulating your infant’s development x8756
- Sunglasses: Preventing cataracts x8757
- Tooth decay: Prevention (toddlers and preschoolers) x8758
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Infant Care
- Crib death: Prevention x8550
- Diaper rash x8551
- Spitting up x8552
- Tear duct, blocked x8553
- Teething myths x8554
- Thrush x8555
- Umbilical hernia x8556
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Newborn Care
- Colic: Home treatment x8601
- Colic: Myths about x8602
- Crying: What it means x8603
- Face rashes x8604
- Foreskin: Normal care x8605
- Jaundiced newborn x8540
- New parent exhaustion: Prevention x8606
- New parents: Common worries x8607
- Newborn appearance x8541
- Newborns: Normal behavior and reflexes x8542
- Normal skin care x8543
- Sibling rivalry with newborn x8609
- Sleep position x8544
- The circumcision decision x8600
- The postpartum blues x8608
- Umbilical cord problems x8545
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