Preparing for Each Well-Child Visit
We’ve put together the information you’ll need for each well-child visit as your child grows! Click through the appointment list below to get more information on the forms you’ll need to fill out, the vaccinations that need to happen during that visit, details on the developmental milestones we’ll be looking for, and get helpful parenting tips from the CDC.
How to Prepare
- Please complete the 2 week well visit form online
We will come to you!
All of the medical professionals at Lake Country Pediatrics, S.C. agree that you and your baby should stay home and get settled in. We want you to be home, comfortable, safe and without the risk of sick person exposure.
Do not clean your home for your visit. Rest, feed, bond and relax. Lake Country Pediatrics S.C. wants to provide all of your care for the first two weeks in the home. If your baby needs a weight check or a bilirubin check, we will come to you.
Included in your two week well exam is a home safety assessment. We check the baby’s crib and bassinette for SIDS proofing and we give you pointers for child proofing the home as your child grows.
This is for your convenience, to minimize your new baby’s exposure to germs, and so that we can better answer any questions you have about the baby’s immediate surroundings.
Additional Resources:
In the first year, babies learn to focus their vision, reach out, explore, and learn about the things that are around them. Cognitive, or brain development means the learning process of memory, language, thinking, and reasoning. Learning language is more than making sounds (“babble”), or saying “ma-ma” and “da-da”. Listening, understanding, and knowing the names of people and things are all a part of language development. During this stage, babies also are developing bonds of love and trust with their parents and others as part of social and emotional development. The way parents cuddle, hold, and play with their baby will set the basis for how they will interact with them and others. [Read more…]
How to Prepare
- Please review the recommended vaccines for your child at this age. We will review immunizations at each well visit to help you protect your child from dangerous, preventable diseases.
- Please bring your fever sheet and any questions you may have.
- Please review the developmental milestones we will be discussing at this visit.
- Please complete the 2 month well visit form online
Additional Resources:
How your child plays, learns, speaks, acts, and moves offers important clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age.
Social and Emotional
– Begins to smile at people
– Can briefly calm herself (may bring hands to mouth and suck on hand)
– Tries to look at parent
– [Read More…]
How to Prepare
- Please review the recommended vaccines for your child at this age. We will review immunizations at each well visit, to help you protect your child from dangerous, preventable diseases.
- Please review the developmental milestones we will be discussing at this visit.
- Please complete the 4 month well visit form online
Additional Resources:
How your child plays, learns, speaks, acts, and moves offers important clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age.
Social and Emotional
– Smiles spontaneously, especially at people
– Likes to play with people and might cry when playing stops
– Copies some movements and facial expressions, like smiling or frowning
– [Read More…]
How to Prepare
- Please review the recommended vaccines for your child at this age. We will review immunizations at each well visit, to help you protect your child from dangerous, preventable diseases.
- Please review the developmental milestones we will be discussing at this visit.
- Please complete the 6 month well visit form online
Additional Resources:
How your child plays, learns, speaks, acts, and moves offers important clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age.
Social and Emotional
– Knows familiar faces and begins to know if someone is a stranger
– Likes to play with others, especially parents
– Responds to other people’s emotions and often seems happy
– Likes to look at self in a mirror
– [Read More…]
How to Prepare
- Please review the recommended vaccines for your child at this age. We will review immunizations at each well visit, to help you protect your child from dangerous, preventable diseases.
- Please review the developmental milestones we will be discussing at this visit.
- At this visit, your child may have a simple blood draw to screen for anemia. For more information, visit the American Association of Pediatrics website.
- Please complete the 9 month well visit form online
Additional Resources:
How your child plays, learns, speaks, acts, and moves offers important clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age.
Social and Emotional
– May be afraid of strangers
– May be clingy with familiar adults
– Has favorite toys
– [Read More…]
How to Prepare
- Please review the recommended vaccines for your child at this age. We will review immunizations at each well visit, to help you protect your child from dangerous, preventable diseases.
- Please review the developmental milestones we will be discussing at this visit.
- Your child will be tested for lead exposure at this visit. Center for Disease Control’s article on lead and young children.
- If your child was not screened for anemia at his or her 9 month check, he or she will be tested now. For more information, visit the American Association of Pediatrics website.
- Please complete the 12 month well visit form online
Additional Resources:
How your child plays, learns, speaks, acts, and moves offers important clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age.
Social and Emotional
– May be afraid of strangers
– May be clingy with familiar adults
– Has favorite toys
– [Read More…]
How to Prepare
- Please review the recommended vaccines for your child at this age. We will review immunizations at each well visit, to help you protect your child from dangerous, preventable diseases.
- Please review the developmental milestones we will be discussing at this visit.
- Please complete the 15 month well visit form online
Additional Resources:
How to Prepare
- Please review the recommended vaccines for your child at this age. We will review immunizations at each well visit, to help you protect your child from dangerous, preventable diseases.
- Please review the developmental milestones we will be discussing at this visit.
- Please complete the 18 month well visit form online
Additional Resources:
How your child plays, learns, speaks, acts, and moves offers important clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age.
Social and Emotional
– Likes to hand things to others as play
– May have temper tantrums
– May be afraid of strangers
– Shows affection to familiar people
– Plays simple pretend, such as feeding a doll
– May cling to caregivers in new situations
– Points to show others something interesting
– Explores alone but with parent close by
– Read More…
How to Prepare
- Please review the recommended vaccines for your child at this age. We will review immunizations at each well visit, to help you protect your child from dangerous, preventable diseases.
- Please review the developmental milestones we will be discussing at this visit.
- Your child will be tested for lead exposure at this visit.
- Please complete the 24 month well visit form online
Additional Resources:
How your child plays, learns, speaks, acts, and moves offers important clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age.
Social and Emotional
– Copies others, especially adults and older children
– Gets excited when with other children
– Shows more and more independence
– Shows defiant behavior (doing what he has been told not to)
– Plays mainly beside other children, but is beginning to include other children, such as in chase games
– [Read More…]
How to Prepare
- Please review the recommended vaccines for your child at this age. We will review immunizations at each well visit, to help you protect your child from dangerous, preventable diseases.
- Please review the developmental milestones we will be discussing at this visit.
- Your child will be tested for lead exposure at this visit.
- Please complete the 30 month well visit form online
Additional Resources:
How your child plays, learns, speaks, acts, and moves offers important clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age.
Social and Emotional
– Copies others, especially adults and older children
– Gets excited when with other children
– Shows more and more independence
– Shows defiant behavior (doing what he has been told not to)
– Plays mainly beside other children, but is beginning to include other children, such as in chase games
– [Read More…]
How to Prepare
- Please review the recommended vaccines for your child at this age to verify they have received all recommended doses. We will review immunizations at each well visit, to help you protect your child from dangerous, preventable diseases.
- Please review the developmental milestones we will be discussing at this visit.
- Please complete the 3 years/36 month well visit form online
Additional Resources:
How your child plays, learns, speaks, acts, and moves offers important clues about your child’s development. Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age.
Social and Emotional
– Copies adults and friends
– Shows affection for friends without prompting
– Takes turns in games
– Shows concern for crying friend
– Understands the idea of “mine” and “his” or “hers”
– Shows a wide range of emotions
– Separates easily from mom and dad
– May get upset with major changes in routine
– Dresses and undresses self
– [Read More…]
How to Prepare
- Please review the recommended vaccines for your child at this age to verify they have received all recommended doses. We will review immunizations at each well visit, to help you protect your child from dangerous, preventable diseases.
- Please review the developmental milestones we will be discussing at this visit.
- Please complete the 4 year well visit form online
Additional Resources:
Skills such as naming colors, showing affection, and hopping on one foot are called developmental milestones. Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age. Children reach milestones in how they play, learn, speak, behave, and move (like crawling, walking, or jumping).
As children grow into early childhood, their world will begin to open up. They will become more independent and begin to focus more on adults and children outside of the family. They will want to explore and ask about the things around them even more. Their interactions with family and those around them will help to shape their personality and their own ways of thinking and moving. During this stage, children should be able to ride a tricycle, use safety scissors, notice a difference between girls and boys, help to dress and undress themselves, play with other children, recall part of a story, and sing a song.
Social and Emotional
– Enjoys doing new things
– Plays “Mom” and “Dad”
– Is more and more creative with make-believe play
– Would rather play with other children than by himself
– Cooperates with other children
– Often can’t tell what’s real and what’s make-believe
– Talks about what she likes and what she is interested in
– [Read More…]
How to Prepare
- Please review vaccine information for school entry vaccines, including boosters on IPV, Varicella, DtaP, and MMR. Wisconsin Department of Health Services has all the information on their website. If you need a printout of your child’s vaccines, ask the front desk when you check in, and you can pick it up before you leave. We review immunizations at each well visit, as we strongly support compliance with AAP recommendations.
Please bring in a sample of your child’s first morning urine. Please bring this sample in a clean, enclosed, disposable container. If your appointment is later in the day, you may drop the sample by the office in the morning, or keep the sample in a refrigerator throughout the day and bring along to the appointment. - If your child meets one or more of the criteria below, he or she will need to come in fasting for a Fasting Lipid Panel.
- Family history (parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings) with hypercholesterolemia, high blood pressure, or heart disease.
- Unknown family history due to adoption or other factors
- Body mass index (BMI) is greater than 85% (BMI calculator for children and teens)
- Lake Country Pediatrics, S.C. will be able to run a fast, accurate Fasting Lipid Panel in the office. The results will be available before the end of your child’s appointment. Please bring a healthy breakfast snack to eat after the nurse lets you know the test was successful. If you have an afternoon appointment, please arrange with the front desk to have a Fasting Lipid Panel done on a day prior to the well exam.
- Please complete the 5 year well visit form online
Additional Resources:
Skills such as naming colors, showing affection, and hopping on one foot are called developmental milestones. Developmental milestones are things most children can do by a certain age. Children reach milestones in how they play, learn, speak, behave, and move (like crawling, walking, or jumping).
As children grow into early childhood, their world will begin to open up. They will become more independent and begin to focus more on adults and children outside of the family. They will want to explore and ask about the things around them even more. Their interactions with family and those around them will help to shape their personality and their own ways of thinking and moving. During this stage, children should be able to ride a tricycle, use safety scissors, notice a difference between girls and boys, help to dress and undress themselves, play with other children, recall part of a story, and sing a song.
Social and Emotional
– Wants to please friends
– Wants to be like friends
– More likely to agree with rules
– Likes to sing, dance, and act
– Is aware of gender
– Can tell what’s real and what’s make-believe
– Shows more independence (for example, may visit a next-door neighbor by himself [adult supervision is still needed])
– Is sometimes demanding and sometimes very cooperative
– [Read More…]
How to Prepare
- Your child will have any follow-up screenings for abnormal screens in the past.
- We review immunizations at each well visit, as we strongly support compliance with AAP recommendations.
- Please complete the 6-8 well visit form online
Additional Resources:
Middle childhood brings many changes in a child’s life. By this time, children can dress themselves, catch a ball more easily using only their hands, and tie their shoes. Having independence from family becomes more important now. Events such as starting school bring children this age into regular contact with the larger world. Friendships become more and more important. Physical, social, and mental skills develop quickly at this time. This is a critical time for children to develop confidence in all areas of life, such as through friends, schoolwork, and sports.
Emotional/Social Changes
Children in this age group might:
- Show more independence from parents and family.
- Start to think about the future.
- Understand more about his or her place in the world.
- Pay more attention to friendships and teamwork.
- Want to be liked and accepted by friends.
- – [Read More…]
Positive Parenting Tips for Parents with Children in Middle Childhood
How to Prepare
- Please review information for the recommended vaccines for your child. We review immunizations at each well visit, as we strongly support compliance with AAP recommendations.
- Please bring in a sample of your child’s first morning urine. Please bring this sample in a clean, enclosed, disposable container. If your appointment is later in the day, you may drop the sample by the office in the morning, or keep the sample in a refrigerator throughout the day and bring along to the appointment.
- All female patients will begin annual screening for anemia after their first menses.
- Based on your child’s age, please complete the appropriate well child visit form (listed below)
6–9 Well Child Form 10 Year Well Child Form 11 Year Well Child Form
Additional Resources:
Your child’s growing independence from the family and interest in friends might be obvious by now. Healthy friendships are very important to your child’s development, but peer pressure can become strong during this time. Children who feel good about themselves are more able to resist negative peer pressure and make better choices for themselves. This is an important time for children to gain a sense of responsibility along with their growing independence. Also, physical changes of puberty might be showing by now, especially for girls. Another big change children need to prepare for during this time is starting middle or junior high school.
Emotional/Social Changes
Children in this age group might:
- Start to form stronger, more complex friendships and peer relationships. It becomes more emotionally important to have friends, especially of the same sex.
- Experience more peer pressure.
- Become more aware of his or her body as puberty approaches. Body image and eating problems sometimes start around this age.
- [Read More…]
Positive Parenting Tips for Parents with Children in Middle Childhood
How to Prepare
- Your child’s school will often require sports physical forms. Please bring these along to your appointment for the physician to complete and sign. See the athletic clearance form.
- All female patients will begin annual screening for anemia after their first menses.
- We review immunizations at each well visit, as we strongly support compliance with AAP recommendations.
- Please complete the 12–14 year well visit form online
Additional Resources:
This is a time of many physical, mental, emotional, and social changes. Hormones change as puberty begins. Most boys grow facial and pubic hair and their voices deepen. Most girls grow pubic hair and breasts, and start their period. They might be worried about these changes and how they are looked at by others. This also will be a time when your teen might face peer pressure to use alcohol, tobacco products, and drugs, and to have sex. Other challenges can be eating disorders, depression, and family problems. At this age, teens make more of their own choices about friends, sports, studying, and school. They become more independent, with their own personality and interests, although parents are still very important.
Emotional/Social Changes
Children in this age group might:
- Show more concern about body image, looks, and clothes.
- Focus on themselves; going back and forth between high expectations and lack of confidence.
- Experience more moodiness.
- Show more interest in and influence by peer group.
- Express less affection toward parents; sometimes might seem rude or short-tempered.
- Feel stress from more challenging school work.
- Develop eating problems.
- Feel a lot of sadness or depression, which can lead to poor grades at school, alcohol or drug use, unsafe sex, and other problems.
- [Read More…]
How to Prepare
- Please bring in a sample of your child’s first morning urine. Please bring this sample in a clean, enclosed, disposable container. If your appointment is later in the day, you may drop the sample by the office in the morning, or keep the sample in a refrigerator throughout the day and bring along to the appointment.
- Parents please remember that your teen will have a private discussion with the medical provider. Your child will begin to have a relationship with their medical provider that becomes confidential. Medical providers will not divulge information discussed with the teen unless explicit direction is given in writing by the teen.
- All patients eighteen and over will have all communication directed to the patient only and if the patient or the parent want information divulged to the parent, written documentation must be part of the medical record.
- If your child is planning to attend college, he or she may need immunization records, vaccination boosters, physical forms, and more. We are more than happy to assist you in getting everything you need!
- We review immunizations at each well visit, as we strongly support compliance with AAP recommendations.
- If your child is between the ages of 15 and 17 years old, please complete the 15–17 year well visit form online
Additional Resources:
This is a time of changes for how teenagers think, feel, and interact with others, and how their bodies grow. Most girls will be physically mature by now, and most will have completed puberty. Boys might still be maturing physically during this time. Your teen might have concerns about her body size, shape, or weight. Eating disorders also can be common, especially among girls. During this time, your teen is developing his unique personality and opinions. Relationships with friends are still important, yet your teen will have other interests as he develops a more clear sense of who he is. This is also an important time to prepare for more independence and responsibility; many teenagers start working, and many will be leaving home soon after high school.
Emotional/Social Changes
Children in this age group might:
- Show more concern about body image, looks, and clothes.
- Focus on themselves; going back and forth between high expectations and lack of confidence.
- Experience more moodiness.
- Show more interest in and influence by peer group.
- Express less affection toward parents; sometimes might seem rude or short-tempered.
- Feel stress from more challenging school work.
- Develop eating problems.
- Feel a lot of sadness or depression, which can lead to poor grades at school, alcohol or drug use, unsafe sex, and other problems.
- [Read More…]
How to Prepare
- Please check with your medical provider. Many College or University students can continue their primary care at Lake Country Pediatrics S.C. until they finish their undergraduate education. This make sense rather than transferring to an adult provider multiple times throughout the higher education period.
- Please bring in a sample of your first morning urine. Please bring this sample in a clean, enclosed, disposable container. If your appointment is later in the day, you may drop the sample by the office in the morning, or keep the sample in a refrigerator throughout the day and bring along to the appointment.
- Fasting Lipid Panel for your adult baseline. Lake Country Pediatrics S.C. will be able to run a fast, accurate Fasting Lipid Panel in the office. The results will be available before the end of the appointment. Please bring a healthy breakfast snack to eat after the nurse lets you know the test was successful. If you have an afternoon appointment, please arrange with the front desk to have a Fasting Lipid Panel done on a day prior to the well exam.
- Please review information for the following vaccines and boosters which may be recommended.