Child Health Memo: My Three Favorite Features Against Mental Load

The mental load, you know? Organization, meals, household chores and above all… health! Ensuring medical follow-up is one of the tiring but necessary imperatives that I sometimes find difficult to follow.

Like half of women and 30% of men, this heavy daily workload causes me a lot of stress, especially as I tend to forget appointments and feel guilty, because which mother forgets to take her child to the PMI childish)? Me. Perfectly.

If I (sort of) assume my motherhood is a little messy, I’d have nothing against tools that help me organize myself.

Easily monitor children’s health

The health of our children is a major issue and the mental burden of medical monitoring weighing on parents (and especially mothers) can never fully disappear. Fortunately, there are tools that can ease this medical mental burden and make my job easier, such as the Child Health Memo platform offered by the MSA (Agricultural Social Security).

This personalized interface, accessible to all, allows parents to centralize all of their children’s medical information and access it with one click. Monitoring of the various curves, dates and objects of the next mandatory appointments, history of past consultations, this real compilation of virtual and safe health that can be consulted on all devices.

Among the many features, three in particular caught my attention as a stressed but forgetful mom:

Access the official recommendations

Parents all over the world, we know that our parenting existence is about asking ourselves hundreds of questions. Is our baby developing properly? Why is the baby crying so much? And the five-year-old who only likes pasta with butter, what to feed her?

To help us on a daily basis, we can often count on an entourage that always offers excellent advice (no) that systematically contradicts itself. A moving thought for my mother who thickened my son’s bottle with flour in the hope of making him sleep longer. Failure and bad luck for the poor little boy who spent the night squirming and whimpering.

The Child Health Memo solution

To avoid being tossed between one and the other’s statements, Child Health Memo has collected all the information relating to the development and health of children aged 0 to 9 years. Nutrition, prevention, safety, hygiene, sleep, sports activities, diseases, this information is provided by authorized health professionals and follows the official recommendations in force.

Know when and why to make an appointment

It’s easy at first, the child goes to the pediatrician every month. The dear child is weighed and inspected from every angle. When he grows up, things get complicated. The parent who has never jolted awake in the middle of the night, convinced that he has missed the appointment for the last vaccine, is not a human parent. And since we talk about it, at what age is the first orthodontic check-up? And the eyes, when are they checked?

To answer these little questions that I forgot to ask during my last consultation with the family doctor, I sometimes turn to the PMI who points out that I could have written down what I was told last time. . And here it is again that good ol’ guilt and feeling that we’re bad parents because the date, nor the title, of the next vaccine is unknown.

The Child Health Memo solution

To help parents like us (that is, almost all parents in the world), the Child Health Memo platform lists the milestones and mandatory exams based on the child’s age. Then just make an appointment.

View the history of past consultations

Between GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) for one and asthma for the other, our family has not been spared the small health dysfunctions that involve treatment and specialist visits. During these appointments we are always told very specific things that I sometimes have a hard time remembering afterwards. Yes, not content with pushing us to consult, these inconveniences also prevent us from sleeping well at night and have a temporary impact on our cognitive abilities.

The Child Health Memo solution

By grouping the information on our Child Health Memo space, we just have to draw our smartphones when yet another doctor asks us to redo the health history of the little ones. And if he wants to see the list of drugs whose effects I know, but I’ve never been able to remember the name, that’s possible too!

The Mémo Santé Enfant platform allows all darons to access all the information concerning their children with one click. This digital health memo lists their medical histories, upcoming required appointments, and recommendations from early childhood professionals on all things health and development for your little ones.

And you, would a virtual health monitor relieve you on a daily basis? And which of these features do you like the most?

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