3 Important Reasons To Schedule An Annual Well Child Visit

There are many illnesses and injuries that don’t have immediate symptoms. If your child has an exam every year, it will be easier to identify potential problems. Plus, it gives the pediatrician an opportunity to treat them.

Immunizations are also very important when it comes to prevention. Your pediatrician will make sure your child is up to date on all immunizations, as well as answer any questions or concerns you may have.

An annual exam is also a great time to discuss proper nutrition and safety in the home and at school. We want to help prevent injuries and promote healthy habits – with an annual exam your pediatrician is given an opportunity each year to do so.

It’s exciting for you and your child to see just how much they’ve grown in a year’s time. It’s also an indication of proper development and milestones. Seeing your child once a year enables your pediatrician to keep up with those milestones.

It’s a great time to build a trusting relationship with your HMG pediatrician. Working together as a team will help keep your child on the right track, for both physical and social development.

What we tend to see is that parents quit bringing their child in for annual visits as they reach school age. It is just as important, if not more important, that adolescent age children have a trusting relationship with their pediatrician. They are faced with many social and behavioral issues that they don’t feel comfortable discussing with their parents. It’s important they have a trusted physician to discuss these issues with.