That’s a comfort the scheduled early-childhood development checks bring to new parents, whether it’s their first or fifth child. But for many families, these routine appointments at their local public health clinic are yet another casualty of pandemic life. Development checks have been cancelled or delayed, or conducted over the phone, or done through an online video link, or carried out in person in clinics. He was born just over a year ago and, despite the pandemic, the development checks were conducted in person, at her local clinic in Swords, Co Dublin. The steps public health nurses go through at each of the four developmental checks are detailed on mychild.ie

Source: The Irish Times March 24, 2021 06:02 UTC