the booklet
This time let's talk about health. I just wanted to share this little thing but an important one.
When a child is born here, he/she will be given a Carnet de Santé (or health record) booklet. The 96 page booklet contains all the record examinations of the baby from the moment he/she was born until the age of 18 years old. It also contains some advices to parents for their babies about do's and don't's. Also found in the booklet are food consummation tables for the growing baby, vaccinations calendar and tables of vaccinations and other various tables.
So whenever we bring our babies to the clinic or hospital for check-up, we have to present this booklet. Doctor(s) will fill up his observations and prescriptions to the booklet and of course his signature. And so, whether we change our pediatre every month it doesn't matter because everything is written in the booklet.
On the other hand, la petite is delayed of one month for her next vaccination. Why, because when I cleaned the drawers I transferred these booklets to the other drawers which lead me to forget to read. So this thinks of me that I will put it in my blog so I will never forget.
4 comments:
dipdip has a baby book too where the pediatrician can write her prescriptions and remind us about the next schedule for vaccination. it's indeed good to have everything written in one book so that when we decide to change pediatrician, he or she will know the history of our child's health and the medications previously given
exactly jo. maau jud naa tay tamdaan. ako pa gani nahikalimot even if i have the book.
They do the same thing in Germany too, so it makes me wonder if most of the western European countries have the same practice of if it's some kind of standard thing in Europe. Like Jo mentioned, it's a good idea to keep that in case you move around or travel a lot with a small child---any doctor can see what's going on with the child's history.
i'm thinking the same thing Cat, that all if not some countries in Europe have the same practices...e.g. family cash allocations, hospitalisation, etc.
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