Appointments with Your Pediatrician or Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

WELL CHILD VISIT AND IMMUNIZATION SCHEDULE

• Newborn check in hospital
• 2-4 days old
• 2 weeks
• 2 months (immunizations due: DTP, IPV, HepB, HIB, PCV, rotavirus)
• 4 months (immunizations due: DTP, IPV, HepB, HIB, PCV, rotavirus)
• 6 months (immunizations due: DTP, IPV, HepB, HIB, PCV, rotavirus)
• 12 months (immunizations due: MMR, VZ, HIB, PCV)
• 18 months (immunizations due: DTP, Hep A)
• 21-24 months (immunizations due: Hep A)
• 3 years
• 4 years (immunizations due: DTP, IPV, MMR, VZ)
• 5 years
• every 2 years after age 5 (immunizations due: dTaP, Menactra, HPV (females) at age 11)

Abbreviations:

• DTP = diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough)
• IPV = polio
• HIB = hemophilus influenza, type B (causes one of the types of meningitis and some other serious infections)
• PCV = pneumococcus (causes one type of meningitis and some cases of ear infections and pneumonia)
• HepB = hepatitis B
• HepA = hepatitis A
• MMR = measles, mumps, and rubella (German measles)
• VZ = varicella (chickenpox)
• dT = diphtheria and tetanus
• dTaP = diphtheria and tetanus with pertussis for older children and adults
• Menactra = meingococcal meningitis
• HPV = human papilloma virs (cervical cancer)

If your child is under 2 years old, we will generally give you an appointment or put you on the booking list for the next well child visit. If your child is 2 years old or older, you are responsible for calling for an appointment for a physical. Please call well in advance to schedule your child's physical.

HINT: Children in daycare, starting kindergarten, attending camp, or participating in sports often will need a physical form signed by a physician. If you anticipate that your child will be attending daycare, kindergarten, camp, or sports, please schedule your child's physical well in advance. Our busiest time of the year for physicals is summer.

Bring any required forms to your child's physical appointment. If you later find that a form needs to be filled out, you can drop the form off at the Medical Secretary, located on the 3rd floor of the Medical Office Building on Eureka Road. The Medical Secretary will order your child's chart and fill out the form. You can either pick it up or have it mailed back to you. Your child must have had a recent physical (within the past two years) done at Kaiser Roseville in order for us to fill out a form.

By California law, only the child's biological or adoptive parents or legal guardians can bring a child under 18 years old to get medical care. If you need to have a step-parent or other relative or caretaker bring the child in, please send along a written and signed permission slip. (For further information on this, click on Pediatric Health Information, then on "California Law Regarding Consent for Treatment of a Minor". In addition to the legal requirement, it is almost always easier for the physician to get a complete history of the child's problem and any past medical problems from the parent. It also saves a lot of phone calls back to our office later on if the parent is present to ask any questions that arise.