Facial nerve weakness (Bell's palsy)

Fainting *

Family
    (see also Sibling)
    adoption
    divorce, overview of coping and impact on children *
    making the most of family time
    mother working outside the home *
    records, medical and official
    remarriage, helping children cope
    single parenting
    spending quality time with your child
    stepparenting or blended families
    violence in family, effects on children

Family planning -- See Birth Control

Fast food

Father's role in care of newborn *

Fear
    R-rated movies
    separation anxiety

Febrile seizures*

Fecal smearing

Feeding
    (see also Breast-feeding)
    (see also Diet)
    (see also Weaning)
    food allergies
    food chart
    formula feeding*
    how to, feeding chart
    overweight, prevention in infants *
    picky eating *
    premature infant
    solid foods, for infants *
    weaning
        preventing problems *
        reluctance or resistance *

Feet turned in, up, or out in newborn *

Feet, flat

Fetal alcohol syndrome

Fever
    drug dosages for relief *
    myths and facts
    temperature, methods for measuring*
        illustration, axillary *
        illustration, oral *
    with seizures*

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Fever blister*

Fifth disease*

Fifth Metacarpal Fracture (Boxer's Fracture)*

Fighting
    (see also Bullying)
    physical
    sibling quarrels

Finger injury*

Fingernail
    biting
    infection*
    torn*

Fire alarms for the home (heat and smoke detectors)

First aid
    altitude sickness, severe
    bite, animal or human *
    bleeding, severe *
    burn
        chemical *
        thermal
    chemical in eye *
    choking *
    convulsions*
        without fever *
    dehydration *
    drowning
    emergencies
    fainting *
    foreign body
        in ear *
        in eye *
        in nose *
        in vagina *
        swallowed *
    fracture
    heat reactions *
    kit *
    marine animal bite *
    poisoning *
    severe allergic reaction *
    sliver *
    snakebite *
    spider or scorpion bite *
    sprain
    stridor with croup
    tooth, permanent and knocked out

Flat feet

Flattened head syndrome, in newborns

Flattened nose in newborn *

Flatulence

Flu
    reactions to shot
    shot

Fluoride *

Folded-over ears in newborn *

Fontanel, on newborn

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Food
    (see also Breast-feeding)
    (see also Diet)
    (see also Eating concerns)
    allergies
        at school
        testing
    fast food
    formula*
    Nutrition Facts illustration
    reading labels
    solid, for infants *

Food allergy
    cow's milk
    egg
    peanut
    soy
    tree nut
    wheat

Food poisoning, giardiasis

Food pyramid illustration *

Forceps or birth canal trauma *

Foreign body
    in ear *
    in eye *
    in nose *
    in skin (sliver) *
    in vagina *
    swallowed *

Foreskin
    care and problems *
    decision to circumcise *

Formula feeding*
    high-calorie, instructions for making

Fracture, first aid

Fragile X syndrome

Freckles *

Friends
    bullying
    fighting
    mistreating

Frostbite *

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