The SickKids Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) provides care for newborns up to four weeks of age. Find information about life in the NICU, conditions that affect newborns and premature babies and what to expect when leaving the NICU.
Learn about the challenges that parents/caregivers and families may experience when a baby is admitted to the NICU.
Read about the various health-care team members who care for babies admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
What to do when a premature baby leaves the Hospital: A variety of important points for parents of premature babies to keep in mind.
Learn how parents can effectively participate in the care of a baby in the NICU.
Recommendations for babies who have spent time in the NICU or CCCU to help improve neurodevelopment at eight months.
Recommendations for babies who have spent time in the NICU or CCCU to help improve neurodevelopment at 12 months.
Learn about how families and the health-care team work together to make important decisions about the care of babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Learn about the immediate experience of neonatal intensive care, which is a very emotional, physical and practical challenge for parents and families.
This page provides recommendations to encourage neurodevelopment in babies aged six weeks, who have spent time in the NICU or CCCU.
Recommendations to encourage neurodevelopment in babies at 18 months old who have spent time in the neonatal neurodevelopment follow-up clinic.
Learn about how newborns and infants are safely transported from a community hospital or nursing station to a hospital that can provide the necessary expertise to care for sick premature or term babies.
Recommendations to encourage neurodevelopment in babies at 36 months old who are patients in the neonatal developmental follow-up clinic.
All babies are born relationship ready. Babies are also born with attachment-based behaviours (crying) that cue their caregiver when they are in distress and need them close. Learn how the baby’s cry and the caregiver’s response to the cry develops the attachment relationship.
Read about issues that parents and caregivers must address in order to prepare for a baby's discharge from the NICU and arrival at home.
Learn about possible outcomes for premature babies.
Learn about several types of lines and catheters inserted into a vein that are used for vascular access on a premature baby or ill newborn.
Learn about the everyday activities you can do with your child to develop their reading skills.
Read about the different methods of assisting babies with their breathing in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Very premature babies are at risk for metabolic bone disease, a condition that affects their bone health and increases the risk of fractures.
This page provides recommendations to encourage neurodevelopment in four month old babies who have spent time in the NICU or CCCU.
Learn about some signs that indicate your child may need extra help with reading.
Read about intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH), or bleeding in the brain, in premature babies.
Mark Family Literacy Day by learning the reading and writing tasks a child can normally complete at different ages and stages.
Read about the causes, diagnosis and treatment of neonatal seizures.
