Baby 6-Week Check Prep

What this sheet is for

The 6-week review is a short appointment that covers a great deal — your baby's weight, development, feeding, and your own recovery. It is easy to arrive and forget half of what you meant to raise. This sheet helps you gather the information the clinician will ask for, note down observations from the days before, and walk in prepared rather than relying on an exhausted memory.

How to use it

Start filling in Feeding to Report in the days before the visit, ticking each item once you have the information ready. Work through Questions for the Doctor as things come up through the week — write the detail in the notes box below. Use Health and Body Checks the morning of the appointment for a quick physical look-over. Pack your bag against What to Bring the night before and tick each item as it goes in. Bring the sheet with you and use the notes box to record anything the clinician tells you on the day.

What is printed on the page

“Baby 6-Week Check Prep” is laid out as two columns: four headed sections of eight pre-filled checkbox items each, two sections per column, with a notes box across the foot. Under the title it reads “Items to prepare, track and ask before your infant's 6-week review.”, and the line at the foot of the page says “Bring this sheet to the appointment — notes from the past week are more reliable than memory alone.”.

The section headings slot holds four entries — “Feeding to Report”, “Questions for the Doctor”, “Health & Body Checks” and “What to Bring” — so the sheet is already filled in for baby rather than left as blank rows to label yourself.

The section 1 items slot holds eight entries — “Average feeds per 24 hours noted”, “Breast / formula / mix confirmed”, “Longest gap between feeds recorded”, “Any latching difficulty described” and “Wind or reflux symptoms noted” and three more — so the sheet is already filled in for baby rather than left as blank rows to label yourself.

The section 2 items slot holds eight entries — “Weight gain concerns written out”, “Sleep pattern changes to mention”, “Crying spells — duration & timing”, “Any rashes or skin changes noted” and “Umbilical stump status to discuss” and three more — so the sheet is already filled in for baby rather than left as blank rows to label yourself.

The section 3 items slot holds eight entries — “Baby weighed at home if possible”, “Head shape checked — no flat spots”, “Eyes tracking movement briefly”, “Responding to loud sounds noted” and “Skin colour — no jaundice visible” and three more — so the sheet is already filled in for baby rather than left as blank rows to label yourself.

The section 4 items slot holds eight entries — “Health record / red book / shot card”, “Nappies and wipes for the wait”, “Spare clothing (one full change)”, “Muslin or burp cloth” and “Dummy / pacifier if used” and three more — so the sheet is already filled in for baby rather than left as blank rows to label yourself.

The remaining labels on the page are “Appointment date” for the date label and “Notes from the appointment” for the notes heading.

Two things about this particular two columns are settings rather than text, and “Baby 6-Week Check Prep” has them set like this. Notes box is on: include the notes box across the foot. Column rule is on: draw a vertical rule between the two columns.

Tips

Count wet and dirty nappies over 48 hours before the appointment — one day can be unrepresentative.

Write questions in the notes box as they occur to you across the week, not just the morning of the visit.

If your baby was premature, note their corrected age alongside their actual age for the clinician's reference.

The other layouts in this set

“Baby 6-Week Check Prep” is one of three sheets in this set, each a different fixed layout filled for the same topic. “Newborn Hospital Bag Checklist” uses the single column layout and “Baby First-Year Vaccines Checklist” uses the phased timeline layout. Pick by how you work: the layout decides how much you write and where, not what the sheet is about.