Click on the links below to learn from our primary care providers.
Preparing for baby’s arrival
Baby care
- Baby's immunization schedule
- Best ways to soothe a fussy newborn
- Checking your baby’s temperature
- Crying
- Easing colic
- Help your baby fall asleep
- How to change your baby’s diaper
- How to give baby’s first bath
- Infants and spit-up
- Learn the ABCs of safe sleep for baby
- Teething
- Tips on bottlefeeding your newborn
- Well visits
- What’s normal and what’s not with your baby’s poop
- Why you should never, ever shake a baby
Caring for kids
- Annual well visits
- Don't wait to vaccinate
- Ear infections
- Easing constipation
- Flu and children
- Introducing new foods
- Protecting your children during flu season
- Reassurance and communication are the keys to resolving childhood fears
- Ringworm
- Roseola
- Stomach flu
- Tackling the teen well visit
- Well visits and chronic care
Safety
Akron Children’s Pediatrics offers 3 convenient ways to schedule an appointment:
- Use MyChart on your computer or the MyChart app.
- Visit akronchildrens.org/appointments.
- Call the Akron Children’s Appointment Center at 330-543-2778 (KID-APPT). Hours are Monday-Friday from 7 a.m.-7:30 p.m. and Saturday-Sunday from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Akron Children’s Pediatrics is recognized by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Patient-Centered Medical Home program. We are dedicated to improving access to medical care, encouraging families to take an active role in their kids’ health care.
We participate in the Ohio Department of Medicaid's Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) program, which empowers primary care offices to use a team-based model of care to improve quality, reduce costs and deliver the best possible care.
