NEONATAL
PAEDIATRICIAN
Dr. Howard Chilton
Neonatal Paediatrician,
Physician to babies and toddlers,
Blogs, Books, Parent Education,
& Presentations.
BABY ON BOARD (4TH EDITION) IS OUT NOW AND AVAILABLE THROUGH BOOKTOPIA
BOOKS
In this fourth expanded edition of his successful book, leading Australian baby expert Dr Howard Chilton presents parents with all the information they need to be confident about looking after their new baby. He refers to the latest international medical information so they understand the reasons behind the advice. Not just the HOW but the WHY.
This expanded edition has new chapters on the introduction of solids, how to play with your baby, and the essential drivers of baby sleep and how to enhance them. Dr Chilton’s daughter, Georgina Dowden, with whom he collaborates professionally, has extensively rewritten the breastfeeding chapter, and many other chapters have been revised and updated.
This book has bigger horizons. It’s about ‘SETTLING, SLEEP, SOLIDS, PLAY and TODDLERS. It lays out the nuts and bolts of the first two years of your child’s life. This is the most critical time in their development. What they learn now about love, relationships and their value in the world will last them a lifetime. According to Dr Howard Chilton, one of Australia’s most respected baby doctors, you cannot give your baby too much love.
Drawing on his 35 years as a baby physician, Dr Chilton
explains the science that proves what many of us instinctively know: the way we feed, hold play with and settle our babies is what determines the kind of adults they will become.
BLOG ABOUT BABIES
Hepatitis B Vaccine: 4 Things You May Not Know
Discovery of the Virus Occurred in Two Major Steps Hepatitis was suspected to have a viral etiology by the first decade of the 20th century, and by World War II, physicians were giving gamma globulin to mitigate outbreaks. Generalized immune globulin lacks the specificity of hepatitis B Ig (HBIG) administered today to high-risk neonates along with the birth dose [...]
Measles: Parties and Amnesia Taking a page out of the ‘Chicken pox party’ playbook, apparently ‘measles parties’ are starting in the USA. The principle is of bringing infected children together with their healthy peers to infect them so they develop the ‘natural’ infection and therefore develop immunity without needing vaccination. It was a bad idea for chicken pox but [...]
Covid Vaccination for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women.
I’ve had a few calls from pregnant and breastfeeding mothers regarding getting the Covid vaccine.... The advice is now crystal clear: Firstly the vaccines have zero effect on fertility, pregnancy and anti-spike proteins are not related, or close to, placental proteins. Anything you hear to the contrary is misinformation, untrue, cherry-picked and mischievous. [1,2,3] Your immune system is different [...]
