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Pediatrician José Luís Fonseca answers some questions from the field of pediatrics that sometimes generate some controversy and many doubts. Dr. José Luís Fonseca has been a pediatrician for 35 years in the district of Braga and, throughout his professional career, has undergone some vicissitudes regarding changes in guidelines and paradigms in child care.

Children for many years were treated as if they were smaller adults, without the notion of the abysmal difference of the particularities that people have over different ages, especially here, considering the ages of childhood and adolescence. However, the recognition of the child as a biopsychosocial being, as well as his rights as a citizen have been delineated throughout history, parallel to the care and health care to this population segment. The National Plan for Child Health in Portugal has undergone transformations and is still in constant construction. Nowadays, there is a great concern of the society, and especially of the parents, to protect, to empower and to realize the development of the children. There are issues that raise doubts and controversies, many times not for the validation of the studies themselves, but for the adequacy of the circumstances of each particular situation.

 

We started pedriatic interviews with 8 controversial questions 

 

 

1.COLUMN Many people argue that in the first months of life children should not get used to their lap whenever they cry. They say that babies should calm themselves in the crib. What is the basis for this attitude? Is more overpowering harmful?

The question already implies an answer, that is, when classifying the colo as "the more" you are already saying that what you are referring to is an exaggeration. But a colinho is a good attitude, for parents and children! There are times when the autonomy, which we must implement for children, is impaired if it is a lap at inappropriate times, which are different, depending on the age of the "child".