Your doctor will check your baby's weight gain against a growth chart during your well-baby visits, to make sure your baby is growing at the right rate.

Most babies have their first well-baby visit within the first couple of weeks after they are born.

The fee for a well-baby visit was set at $47; her regular fee is $90.

Babies between 1 month and 1 year of age should have routine checkups, sometimes called well-baby visits, at 2, 4, 6, 9, and 12 months of age.

By enrolling in H.M.O.'s, the families will now have their own doctors and get well-baby visits and other preventive care, largely free.

And equally important for both health care and economic reasons, this program, for the first time, would provide a broad range of preventive services, including regular checkups and well-baby visits.

Faced with the shocking rate of death and illness in the community, Williams trained nurses to do out-reach visits, and created well-baby visits for the local community.

These routine checkups are called well-baby visits.

You also state that traditional coverage offers no reimbursement for preventive care like physical exams, immunizations, mammograms and well-baby visits.