While you don’t want to be labelled neurotic, you also don’t want to miss important signals that could warn you that your baby is seriously ill and needs medical attention. Symptoms, coupled with your baby’s age, are very important when making a diagnosis. Newborns (first 6 weeks of life) show different symptoms to babies younger than 6 months, who can be (generally) more vulnerable than tots over a year.
Babies and young children can become seriously ill very quickly – and for the most part, recover just as quickly! But there are those rare occasions when vigilant attention and swift action has saved many a baby’s life –
