How to effectively keep your newborn baby safe and comforted. Tips, such as holding them to offer proper head support, are included.
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 all about your newborn baby's eyesight, hearing, and senses of taste, touch and smell.
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.
Learn about managing your baby's crying. Keeping calm and comforting your baby will often help soothe them.
Learn what to consider and expect when deciding on a routine newborn circumcision.
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.
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.
Crying in newborns is part of normal development. Learn how to effectively recognize the different types of cries your newborn baby might have.
Most changes in stool are from a diet change, but some may need medical attention. Learn the signs, symptoms and treatments for unusual stool.
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.
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.
The arterial switch procedure is performed to correct transposition of the great arteries. Learn about the procedure and the associated risks.
Learn about what is involved in changing a baby's diaper.
Learn how to effectively keep your baby safe when using baby equipment, including change tables, cribs, strollers, carriers/slings, playpens and more.
Fixing a cleft lip involves two operations. Learn about the operations and what you need to know before, during and after both surgeries.
Learn about the development of a baby's vision in the first year of life, including the development of spatial perception and depth perception.
Learn how to take care of your newborn son after he is circumcised.
Information about symptoms, causes and treatment of heat rash.
Learn about the methods of transportation necessary to accommodate premature birth, which is often an emergency event.
Learn about infantile spasms, a type of epilepsy. Learn how infantile spasms are diagnosed and treated, and who can help you and your baby.
