{"id":249,"date":"2026-10-07T11:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T11:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmondsonparkmedical.com.au\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2026-10-08T12:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T12:00:51","slug":"childrens-health-checks-supporting-your-childs-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmondsonparkmedical.com.au\/blog\/childrens-health-checks-supporting-your-childs-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Health Checks: Supporting Your Child&#8217;s Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Children experience physical, developmental and emotional changes as they grow. Regular health appointments can give parents and healthcare professionals an opportunity to monitor development and discuss questions or concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Children&#8217;s health appointments may cover growth, development, nutrition, immunisation and general wellbeing. Parents can also discuss sleep, behaviour, feeding or other concerns that may affect their child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edmondson Park Medical provides children&#8217;s health services, including health checks at milestone ages and immunisations. The practice can also refer children to appropriate specialists when clinically required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keeping your child&#8217;s health information and vaccination records up to date can help healthcare professionals understand relevant medical history and immunisation status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every child develops differently. If you are concerned about your child&#8217;s health or development, speaking with a GP can help determine whether further assessment or follow-up may be appropriate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edmondson Park Medical | Shop 5A\/1970 Camden Valley Wy, Edmondson Park NSW 2174, Australia | 02 9188 8770 | info@edmondsonparkmedical.com.au | edmondsonparkmedical.com.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children experience physical, developmental and emotional changes as they grow. Regular health appointments can give parents and healthcare professionals an opportunity to monitor development and discuss questions or concerns. Children&#8217;s health appointments may cover growth, development, nutrition, immunisation and general wellbeing. Parents can also discuss sleep, behaviour, feeding or other concerns that may affect their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/edmondsonparkmedical.com.au\/blog\/childrens-health-checks-supporting-your-childs-development\/\" class=\"read-more-link\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,53],"tags":[47,49,48,45,46,40,50,44],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-childrens-health-2","category-family-medicine","tag-child-development","tag-child-health","tag-childhood-immunisation","tag-childrens-doctor","tag-childrens-health-checks","tag-edmondson-park","tag-family-gp","tag-kids-gp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmondsonparkmedical.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmondsonparkmedical.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmondsonparkmedical.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmondsonparkmedical.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmondsonparkmedical.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/edmondsonparkmedical.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/edmondsonparkmedical.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmondsonparkmedical.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmondsonparkmedical.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmondsonparkmedical.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmondsonparkmedical.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}