I was thinking that an ear thermometer would be a good idea to get to take temperature for a newborn (imagining difficulties trying to get a rectal thermometer into a squirming, unhappy baby), but my friend said to go rectal until age 2 as the ear ones aren't accurate until then. Is this true? What have other people's experience been?
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