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 about managing your baby's crying. Keeping calm and comforting your baby will often help soothe them.
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 all about your newborn baby's eyesight, hearing, and senses of taste, touch and smell.
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.
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.
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.
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 how to effectively keep your baby safe when using baby equipment, including change tables, cribs, strollers, carriers/slings, playpens and more.
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.
Learn how to take care of your newborn son after he is circumcised.
Learn about the development of a baby's vision in the first year of life, including the development of spatial perception and depth perception.
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 respiratory distress syndrome, a common condition in very premature babies.
Learn about what is involved in changing a baby's diaper.
Discover the physical and behavioural signs that your baby may be ill and learn when to take your baby to a health-care provider.
Learn about infantile spasms, a type of epilepsy. Learn how infantile spasms are diagnosed and treated, and who can help you and your 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.
This page contains information on book resources available for parents of premature babies.
