NEWBORN CARE

Have your child weighed at the AW centre regularly

The child needs extra food after illness

Wash hands by herself

Say one other word
Keep the child warm

Around 3 years most children can

Around 2 years most children can
Feeding, playing and communicating with the children helps them grow and develop well
Start breastfeeding immediately after birth,
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If the child seems slow, increase feeding, talking and playing. If the child is still slow, take the child to a doctor
give nothing else not even water

Imitate household work

Growth Chart

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Stand on one foot with help Do not bathe child for first 7 days Growth Indicators

Copy & draw straight line

Keep the child away from people who are sick Normal

Name 3 out of 4 objects

Good
Weigh your child at birth Grade I
Give special care if child is less than 2.5 kg. (mild)
14.0
Grade II
DANGER SIGNS (moderate)
Dangerous 13.5
SEE HEALTH WORKER Grade III

What children can do

What children can do

(severe)
Weak suck or refuses to breastfeed Grade IV 13.0

Baby unable to cry/difficult breathing Very dangerous (very severe)

12.5
Yellow palms and soles
1 kg Talk to the
Cold to touch

Feed self spilling little

Put 3 pebbles in a cup

AWW/ANM 12.0
Convulsions

Around 2 1/2 years most children can

500 gms
Around 1 1/2 years most children can

immediately
100 gms 11.5

11.0
Normal

Name one colour correctly

10.5
0 to 12 months
Always use iodized salt for the family

Point to 4 body parts

1 1/2 months
Walk well

9 months
10.0
Express wants

9.5

B.C.G.
9.0 Grade I
Measles
1 1/2 months 2 1/2 months 3 1/2 months
8.5

8.0

respond to your child's questions.

Grade II

Teach your child stories, songs,

Respond to your child's attempts
Ask your child simple questions.

9 months

Encourage your child to talk &

Weight in Kilograms
7.5
compare things; make simple
containers and take out.
Give your child things to

Polio -1 Polio -2 Polio -3

stack up & to put into

Help your child count and

What you can do

7.0
What you can do

1 1/2 months 2 1/2 months 3 1/2 months Grade III

6.5
toys for your child.

Vitamin A

and games.
6.0

5.5
to talk.

DPT-1 DPT-2 DPT-3

5.0
Grade IV
4.5
Continue breastfeeding during illness

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chappati, vegetables, yellow fruits, pulses

4.0 Fever
‹Continue to offer a wide variety of foods

‹Feed from a separate bowl and monitor

Use cold/wet sponge on

Hepatitis B-1 Hepatitis B-2 Hepatitis B-3
including family foods- such as rice /

3.5 the forehead and limbs

‹Feed the child about 5 times a day

during high fever and

12 to 24 months
‹Continue to feed family foods 5

16-24 months 16-24 months 3.0

take the child to the
health center
‹Help the child feed herself /

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how much the child eats

2.5
Diarrhoea Breastfeed more often
ARI
1 to 2 years

2 to 3 years

2.0 Give extra fluids

and milk products

‹Supervise feeding

(24 to 36 months) If the child has rapid

DPT Polio 1.7 Give ORS and/ or difficult
30 months 36 months Continue to give
breastfeeding

16 months 24 months breathing, take the child

times a day
Do not stop

Birth Weight
your child

normal diet to the health center

If loose motions do not
himself
Feeding
Feeding

stop, take the child to

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Vitamin A Vitamin A Vitamin A Vitamin A Age in months Care During Illness