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.
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.
Learn all about your newborn baby's eyesight, hearing, and senses of taste, touch and smell.
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 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.
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.
Crying in newborns is part of normal development. Learn how to effectively recognize the different types of cries your newborn baby might have.
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 your newborn baby's nutritional requirements and how to successfully feed them.
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 respiratory distress syndrome, a common condition in very premature babies.
Learn how to effectively keep your baby safe when using baby equipment, including change tables, cribs, strollers, carriers/slings, playpens and more.
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 what is involved in changing a baby's diaper.
Learn about the methods of transportation necessary to accommodate premature birth, which is often an emergency event.
Learn how to take care of your newborn son after he is circumcised.
Learn about infantile spasms, a type of epilepsy. Learn how infantile spasms are diagnosed and treated, and who can help you and your baby.
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.
