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Fetal Monitoring

In pregnancy and during labor, your health care provider will check your unborn baby’s heart rate and other functions. Monitoring can be done on the outside of your belly (external monitoring). Or it may be done directly on the baby while inside your uterus (internal monitoring). Fetal monitoring is a very common procedure.

Fetal Movement Counting

Fetal movement counting is a way to check the health of a developing baby (fetus). It’s often called kick counting. It’s done by counting the number of kicks you feel from your baby in a certain time period.

Fibromyalgia in Children

Fibromyalgia is a condition that causes pain in muscles and soft tissues all over the body. It is an ongoing (chronic) condition. Learn more about this condition, including what causes it, what the symptoms are, how it's diagnosed and treated, and what you can do to support your child who has it.

Fire Safety and Burns

Detailed information on fire safety and burns and preventing injuries and death in children

Fire Safety and Burns Overview

Know the types of burns you can get and how to keep you and your family safe.

Fire Safety and Burns: Identifying High-Risk Situations

Children are at increased risk for serious fire and burn injuries and death because they have thinner skin than adults. This results in burns at lower temperatures.

Firearms

Detailed information on firearm safety and preventing injuries and death in children

First Aid for a Choking Baby

If your baby is choking, first aid may clear the airway so your baby can breathe. Read on to learn what to do.

First Aid for Poisonings in a Child

Sometimes accidental poisonings can be treated in the home under the direction of a poison control center or your child's doctor. At other times, emergency medical care is necessary. Read on to learn more.

First Aid for the Eyes

A helpful guide to treating different types of eye injuries.

First Trimester Screening

First trimester screening combines an ultrasound and blood tests. It's done during weeks 11 to 14 of pregnancy. It can help find out the risk of the baby having certain birth defects. 

First-Degree Burn in Children

A burn is damage to tissues of the body caused by contact with things such as heat, radiation, or chemicals. A first-degree burn affects only the outer layer of skin (epidermis).