Almost like your Mutterpass, your baby will receive a Kinder-Untersuchungsheft, Child-Examination Booklet, with W.H.O. card which will cover the first five years of growth, general physical development and immunizations. It will list the dates at which you are expected to bring the child in for examination, Untersuchung, U1 through U9.

The U1 occurs immediately after birth. The U2 is after 48 hours or latest 10 days, and the U3 is after four to six weeks. So it is important to have interviewed pediatricians prior to delivery.

If you are having difficulties in breast feeding and/or your ten midwife visits are over, or you feel a need for a certified professional on this topic, the following organizations have nursing groups, make house calls, advise on the transition to solids (zu füttern) if your milk is not enough and so on.

1. BDL Lactation Consultants

  Berufsverband Deutscher Laktationsberaterinnen
  Halstenbeker Str. 39
  22457 Hamburg
  Tel. (040) 550 01 39
  Christiane Friedrich - She speaks English and is considered "excellent"


2. La Leche Liga Hamburg e.V.

  Kiesbarg 45a
  21149 Hamburg
  Tel. (040) 701.5579 Christel Opitz


3. Arbeitsgemeinschaft freier Stillgruppen

  Buchenweg 44
  21509 Glinde
  Tel. (040) 711-2671
  Sabine Baldo

Three Hamburg hospitals specialize in children. All three have a fine reputation. Avoid taking your child to a doctor who does not specialize in children; he/she would be the first to thank you.

• UKE Universitäts-Krankenhaus Eppendorf
  Martinistr. 52
  Tel. (040) 471 71
  


• Altonaer Kinderkrankenhaus
  Bleickenallee 38
  Tel. (040) 88 90 80
  


• Katholisches Kinderkrankenhaus Wilhelmstift (Rahlstedt)
  Liliencronstr. 130
  Tel. (040) 67 37 70