Learn about the methods of transportation necessary to accommodate premature birth, which is often an emergency event.
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 how parents can effectively participate in the care of a baby in the NICU.
Learn about the immediate experience of neonatal intensive care, which is a very emotional, physical and practical challenge for parents and families.
Learn how to effectively keep your baby safe when using baby equipment, including change tables, cribs, strollers, carriers/slings, playpens and more.
Learn about difficult decisions that parents of babies in the NICU must make. To make matters worse, these decisions often must be made quickly.
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 to set up a suction machine, what equipment you will need and which size catheter you should use for your child.
Find out how to care for your child's suctioning equipment and troubleshoot any suctioning problems.
Read about the causes, diagnosis and treatment of post-hemorrhagic ventricular dilatation (PHVD) in newborn babies.
This page provides recommendations to encourage development in babies aged 12 months who have spent time in the NICU or CCCU, or who require care a neonatal follow-up clinic.
Recommendations for babies who have spent time in the NICU or CCCU to help improve neurodevelopment at eight months.
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.
Find out which feeding supplies you will need to buy for your child, where you can buy them and what kind of funding is available for buying feeding tube supplies.
Learn how to make sure your child stays safe at the playground, playing in the backyard or at a splash pad or wading pool.
This page provides recommendations to encourage development in babies who have spent time in the NICU or CCCU, or who require care a neonatal follow-up clinic.
Learn about the equipment used during, and following an operation for scoliosis. Trusted answers from The Hospital for Sick Children.
This page provides recommendations to encourage development in babies aged six weeks, who have spent time in the NICU or CCCU, or who require care from a neonatal follow-up clinic.
Learn how to treat common problems with your child's nasogastric (NG) tube feeding.
A guide on how to feed your child through a nasogastric tube, when to flush the tube and how to clean the equipment.
Find out about the most common tube feeding options, how to use and take care of the equipment and how to handle common problems.
Learn what to pack in your child's medical travel bag when you and your child leave the home.
Here is an introduction to scoliosis surgery. Links are provided to pages that give information about what will happen before, during, and after surgery.
Recommendations to encourage neurodevelopment in babies at 18 months old who have spent time in the neonatal neurodevelopment follow-up clinic.
Discover how to perform lung volume recruitment with your child to help them take deep breaths.
