Your Personal Child Health Record, or Red Book, has lots of helpful information about your child’s growth and development. If your child has a Red Book, bring this to their appointment so that your healthcare professional can review any changes over time.

If you can, measure your child’s weight or height/length and any changes you have noticed recently.

Take any information you can about any health conditions your child might have, whether recent or long-term and note whether this impacts your child’s ability to eat or drink.

Keep track of whether your child has had any sickness or diarrhoea over the past few days and how often these symptoms have occurred. Note if there have been any changes in weight loss, toilet habits, or concerns with how much your child is eating or drinking.

Think about whether there have been any changes in your child’s physical activity levels – have they been playing less, looking pale, feeling more lethargic or complaining of tummy ache recently? Also, note down any changes in your child’s sleep patterns.