This site has six pages about pediatrician appointments — the record, the questions, the notes, the first visit, the report, the symptom log. Every one of them starts from the assumption that you already know when the next visit is. None of them ever told you. This page starts with the dates, then routes you to the page that matches what you are actually doing.
Enter your baby's date of birth. The calendar below computes the day your baby reaches each age named in the published Bright Futures/AAP periodicity schedule — and keeps each visit's own shape: the first-week check is a range, the one-month visit is a deadline, and the rest are single ages.
Three things this page keeps straight, because mixing them up is how a helpful tool turns into a harmful one.
What the schedule names is an age. What your practice books is a date, and practices routinely book around the named age rather than exactly on it. The calendar above computes the age boundary. It has no idea what your clinic has on the books, and it cannot see your patient portal.
The Periodicity Schedule is the preventive-care visit schedule: when a well-child visit is recommended, and what screening and assessment happens at it. The immunization schedule is a separate document from the CDC and the AAP Red Book. A date from this page tells you nothing about which shots are due.
This page knows when your baby reaches each published age. It does not know whether you went, what your practice scheduled, or what was found. So a passed date reads “that age has passed” and never “overdue”, “missed”, or “behind” — it has no basis for any of those, and the AAP's own note about bringing a schedule up to date is reassuring rather than alarming.
The schedule is written for children growing and developing in a satisfactory fashion, and the AAP notes additional visits may become necessary if circumstances suggest concerns. For a baby born prematurely or with a medical condition, your practice decides the timing. Do not read a date off this page and treat it as a plan. Which age that timing is counted from is a separate question, and the corrected age calculator for preemies works out the age a preterm baby is compared against.
The visit ages and the rules around them are restated from the published schedule. Where the source writes something in words rather than dates, this page says so rather than inventing a number.
| Figure | What the published guidance says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Where the visit ages come from | The American Academy of Pediatrics publishes the Bright Futures/AAP Recommendations for Preventive Pediatric Health Care, known as the Periodicity Schedule. It lists the ages at which well-child visits are recommended. It is reviewed and updated every year. | AAP Bright Futures / Periodicity Schedule |
| The visit ages themselves | Newborn, 3–5 days, by 1 month, then 2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 24 and 30 months, then every year from 3 years through 21 years. | AAP Bright Futures / Periodicity Schedule |
| The 3–5 day evaluation | “Newborns should have an evaluation within 3 to 5 days of birth and within 48 to 72 hours after discharge from the hospital to include evaluation for feeding and jaundice.” | AAP Periodicity Schedule, footnote 4 |
| Discharged early | “Newborns discharged less than 48 hours after delivery must be examined within 48 hours of discharge.” | AAP Periodicity Schedule, footnote 4 |
| If you started late, or something was skipped | “If a child comes under care for the first time at any point on the schedule, or if any items are not accomplished at the suggested age, the schedule should be brought up to date at the earliest possible time.” | AAP Periodicity Schedule, footnote 1 |
| Who the schedule is written for | “Designed for the care of children who are receiving nurturing parenting, have no manifestations of any important health problems, and are growing and developing in a satisfactory fashion.” | AAP Periodicity Schedule |
| It is not the only course of treatment | “The recommendations in this statement do not indicate an exclusive course of treatment or serve as a standard of medical care. Variations, taking into account individual circumstances, may be appropriate.” | AAP Periodicity Schedule |
| More visits may be needed | “Additional visits also may become necessary if circumstances suggest concerns,” and developmental, psychosocial or chronic conditions may need separate visits of their own. | AAP Periodicity Schedule |
| Someone is screening the parents too | Screening for maternal depression is recommended at the 1-, 2-, 4- and 6-month visits. Paternal postpartum depression is real as well, and the AAP covers it directly. | AAP Periodicity Schedule; AAP HealthyChildren |
| What actually happens at a checkup | “Your health care team will take measurements, conduct a head-to-toe examination, update immunizations, and answer questions you may have.” Bring your successes, your concerns, and the daily-routine challenges. | AAP HealthyChildren, Your Child’s Checkups |
| This is not the vaccine schedule | The Periodicity Schedule covers preventive care visits. Immunization schedules are published separately by the CDC and the AAP Red Book, and they are not the same document. Use your care team for the actual vaccine plan. | AAP Periodicity Schedule; CDC |
| What this page cannot see | Whether a visit actually happened, what was found at it, what your practice scheduled, or whether your baby is developing on track. It does date arithmetic on a birth date. That is a different thing entirely. | This page, stated plainly |
Six pages, ordered by the question in your head rather than by build date.
Appointments, who is taking them, and what came out of each one.
When do we actually go?Your baby's birth date in, the published visit ages as calendar dates out.
What did I want to ask?Get the 3 a.m. question out of your head and onto the list before the visit.
Fever thresholdsEvery published fever cutoff and call threshold side by side, including the two published boundaries for the under-3-months rule, plus a free checker that says which published rule your reading meets.
For dadsThe published figures on postpartum depression in fathers, each quoted from the document that publishes it, and the four places they do not agree - a prevalence range from 2% to 50%, a screening threshold whose validated cut-off for fathers is not the one the AAP publishes, two peak windows that are not the same window, and one named screening visit for a father against four for a mother.
What did they actually say?Capture what the clinician said at the time, while you are still in the room.
What happens at the first one?The newborn visit is different from every later one. Here is what to bring.
What do I bring to show them?Turn the logged week into something a clinician can scan in thirty seconds.
Something changed. Now what?Write down what you saw and when, so the pattern survives the phone call.
Birth date plus a published age equals a calendar date. That is the whole calculation. There is no scoring, no rating, no comparison of your baby to anyone else.
A passed age reads “this age has passed”. Not “overdue”. Not “missed”. The tool has never seen your calendar, your clinic, or your baby.
The first-week visit is published as a range of days and the one-month visit as a deadline. Flattening both into single dates would have been tidier and less true, so this page does not do it.
A baby born on the 31st reaches “one month” on the last day of the next month, not on a date that has spilled into a third month. Sloppy month arithmetic would quietly shift every later date.
No account, no save, no upload, no network call. Close the tab and the date is gone. The printable sheet exists precisely because nothing is stored.
Anything that worries you about your baby — poor feeding, unusual sleepiness, fever, breathing changes, or a feeling you cannot name — is a call to your pediatrician or emergency services today. Do not wait for a scheduled date, and do not delay care to use a page.
Fill in the date your practice gives you, who is taking them, and anything to raise. Take it to the appointment. Nothing here is stored anywhere else.
| Visit age (published) | Date we go | Who is taking them | To raise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newborn | |||
| 3–5 days | |||
| By 1 month | |||
| 2 months | |||
| 4 months | |||
| 6 months | |||
| 9 months | |||
| 12 months | |||
| 15 months | |||
| 18 months | |||
| 24 months | |||
| 30 months |
Every figure on this page is restated from these references. The child's qualified care team supplies medical guidance, including the actual visit and immunization plan.
DadYolked keeps feeds, diapers, sleep, medicine, pumping, notes, and appointments in one local-first record — so the week is already written down before the appointment, and the second caregiver sees the same story.
The American Academy of Pediatrics publishes the ages at which well-child visits are recommended: newborn, 3 to 5 days, by 1 month, then 2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 24 and 30 months, then once a year from age 3 through 21. The calendar above turns those ages into the actual dates your baby reaches them, counted from the birth date you enter. What it cannot tell you is when your appointment is — your practice sets that, and practices routinely schedule around the named age rather than exactly on it.
Do not use this page to work out a preemie's visit plan. The published schedule is written for children who are growing and developing in a satisfactory fashion, and the AAP's own note says additional visits may become necessary where circumstances suggest concerns. For a baby born prematurely or with a medical condition, your practice decides the timing, and some practices adjust for how early your baby arrived. Ask them directly rather than reading a date off this page. Which age the timing is counted from is a separate question, and the corrected age calculator for preemies works out the age a preterm baby is compared against.
No, and the two should not be mixed up. The Periodicity Schedule above is the preventive-care visit schedule: it says when a well-child visit is recommended, and what screening and assessment is done at it. The immunization schedule is a separate document, published by the CDC with the AAP's Red Book, and it says which vaccines are due when. Your care team runs both. A visit date from this page tells you nothing about what shots are due.
This page will not tell you that, because it cannot know it. It knows when your baby reaches each published age; it has no idea whether you went, what your practice scheduled, or what was found. What the AAP does say is reassuring rather than alarming: if a child comes under care for the first time at any point on the schedule, or if items are not accomplished at the suggested age, the schedule should be brought up to date at the earliest possible time. So the answer is a call to your practice, not a verdict from a page.
Published by DadYolked · Updated September 19, 2026 · Editorial standards and corrections
· Corrected age calculator for preemies