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Baby -- See Newborn
Baby equipment
- books
- car safety seats
- clothes
- diapers
- equipment and supplies
- laundry
- pacifier
- walkers
Babysitter (see also Child care)
- form for list of instructions
- guidelines
Backache
- exercises, description of
- illustration of low back exercises
- parent version
Bacteremia
- admission and discharge instructions
- general guidelines
Bacterial conjunctivitis
Bacterial endocarditis, antibiotics for prevention
Bacterial meningitis
- admission and discharge instructions
- general guidelines
Bacterial vaginosis
Bad breath
Bath
- infants
- resource list
Bed-sharing with parents
Bed-wetting
- alarms
- general guidelines
- resource list
Bedtime (see also Sleep)
- resistance or refusal
- resource list
Bee sting
Behavior (see also Discipline) (see also Family) (see also Fear)
- aggressive behavior, preventing
- anger management, teaching children
- attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
  - dealing with
  - overview
- bedtime refusal
- biting
- breath-holding spells
- bullying, how to help the victim
- cheating
- damaging property
- diary
- dressing
  - poking and stalling
  - refusal
  - teaching skills
- eating misbehavior
- fear of talking (selective mutism)
- fighting and spitting
- glasses, instructions for improving wearing
- habit reversal training
- headbanging
- hurting another child
- ignoring instructions
- incentives for motivating children
- interrupting others
- lying
- masturbation in preschoolers
- mistreating pets
- nail biting
- picky eating
- playing with others
- public misbehavior
- rebellion, adolescent
- safety misbehavior
- school
  - adjusting to
  - homework problems
  - phobia
  - responsibility for schoolwork
- screaming and shouting
- self-quieting skills, teaching infant
- separation anxiety
- sexual behavior, setting limits
- sibling quarrels
- sibling rivalry toward a newborn
- siblings or friends, mistreating
- sleep misbehaviors, overview
- smearing of fecal material
- spoiled child, prevention
- stealing
- stubborn toddler
- swearing
- temper tantrums
  - overview
  - teaching your child coping skills
- threats or hurtful comments
- thumbsucking
- toilet training resistance
- whining
Behavior in public places
- rules and discipline
- teaching good behavior
Bell's palsy
Bicycle safety
Biliary atresia
Birth certificate
Birth control
- condom
- depo-provera
- diaphragm
- IUD
- natural family planning
- oral contraceptives
- pregnancy prevention overview
- spermicide, vaginal*
Birthmarks
Bite
- animal or human
- insect
- marine
- prevention of pet and other animal bites
- snake
- spider
- tick
Biting
Bladder problems and procedures
- bed-wetting
  - alarms
- urinary tract infection
- urinating, daytime frequency
- voiding cystourethrogram
Blanket/toy attachment, resource list
Bleeding
- nose
- severe
Blended families
Blindness, resource list
Blister
- fever
- foot or hand
- mouth
Blocked tear duct
Blood group incompatibility in newborn
Blood in urine
Blood infection (bacteremia)
Blood test
- glucose
- self blood glucose testing
Blood transfusion (in newborn)
BMI -- See Body Mass Index
Body mass index
- for boys
- for girls
Boil
Bone cancer
Bone injury
Book lists (see Resource list)
Books
- helping children cope with problems
- parenting, general
- selecting based on age
- suggested reading activities
Bottle feeding
- introduction of bottle to breast-fed baby
- overview
- prevention of baby bottle tooth decay
Bowlegs
Brain problems and procedures
- bacterial meningitis
- cerebral palsy
- head injury (concussion)
- seizures (without fever)
- tumors
- viral meningitis
BRAT diet
Breast development in boys (gynecomastia)
Breast engorgement
- newborn
- nursing mother
Breast infection, nursing mother
Breast-feeding
- advantages
- engorgement of breasts after delivery
- essentials of
- feeding chart month by month
- feeding positions
- feeding positions illustration
- general recommendations
- high-calorie milk, instructions for making
- infection (mastitis)
- introduction of bottle
- latching on illustration
- let-down reflex
- milk production
- plugged ducts
- screening form for early follow-up of breast-fed infants
- sore nipples
- storage and handling of breast milk
- twins
Breath, bad
Breath-holding spells
Broken ankle
Broken arm (forearm)
- diagnosis and treatment
Broken elbow
Broken finger
Broken knee
Broken leg
Broken rib
Broken wrist
Bronchioles, illustration showing narrowing during asthma attack
Bronchiolitis
- admission and discharge instructions*
- preventing with Synagis
Bronchitis, acute
Bronchodilator, for asthma
- long-acting beta2-agonist
- short-acting anticholinergic
- short-acting beta2-agonist
Bruise
- finger
- muscle or bone
- rib
- skin
- toe
Bruxism
Bulimia nervosa
- diagnosis and treatment
- resource list
Bullying
- how to help the victim
- resource list
Burn
- chemical
- hot water heater setting
- prevention
- sunburn
- thermal

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