Helpful tips on holding and dressing a baby. Though they are not as fragile as they look, it is important to handle your baby gently for them to feel safe.
How to effectively keep your newborn baby safe and comforted. Tips, such as holding them to offer proper head support, are included.
Learn about managing your baby's crying. Keeping calm and comforting your baby will often help soothe them.
If your child has a CVL or PICC, the dressing must be changed regularly to prevent infection. Learn how to change your child's CVL or PICC dressing using antiseptic non-touch technique.
How to effectively make bath time easier for your newborn. Information on giving a newborn baby a sponge bath is provided, as well as safety tips.
Learn about making sleep time easier and safer for your newborn baby.
Learn about the different types of newborn screening and what to do if your baby has positive newborn screening results.
Read about your newborn baby's first movements and reflexes after birth. The grasping reflex, crawling reflex and startle reflex are discussed.
Learn about newborn nutrition, routine care and everyday health issues as well as some common physical and emotional adjustments to life after pregnancy.
Learn about your newborn baby's nutritional requirements and how to successfully feed them.
Learn all about your newborn baby's eyesight, hearing, and senses of taste, touch and smell.
Learn how to effectively keep your baby safe when using baby equipment, including change tables, cribs, strollers, carriers/slings, playpens and more.
You can still work on breastfeeding while your baby is in the hospital. Learn how to prepare for breastfeeding and recognize your baby’s feeding cues.
Find out how to safely hold and support your baby or child with osteoporosis.
Read about the proper sleep time for babies. Learn several ways of avoiding sleep time problems. Several tips to make sleep time easier are included.
Read about the Apgar score, which is used to assess a newborn baby's well-being using five categories: heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflexes and skin colour.
Kangaroo care is skin-to-skin touch between a parent and baby. Learn more about kangaroo care and the benefits of skin-to-skin contact.
The arterial switch procedure is performed to correct transposition of the great arteries. Learn about the procedure and the associated risks.
Learn about the benefits of tummy time and how to encourage your baby to spend supervised awake time on their stomach.
Discover the various stages of your baby's nutrition and how to handle issues such as spitting up.
Learn about the various skin conditions and birthmarks that can arise in a newborn baby.
Learn about hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn and ABO incompatibility and how it can affect your fetus and/or newborn, as well as how it is treated.
Read about the various types of health care professionals who may need to treat a baby who is very ill. Answers from Canadian Paediatric Hospitals.
Positional clubfoot is a condition that can affect one or both feet of newborn babies. Learn more about why this happens and stretches and exercises to help treat clubfoot.
