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.
Learn how a baby's system of attachment develops over the first year of life. Attachment will solidify as a baby's memory develops.
Read about different types of attachment that a baby or child might develop. Attachment issues, such as disorganized attachment, are discussed.
Learn how to effectively foster and promote a secure attachment pattern between you and your baby or child. Also learn how to provide experiences that create trust by making your infant and child feel understood and comforted.
Learn about attachment, and the social and emotional development of babies. Explore topics such as bullying, anger management, resilience, puberty, sexuality and sleep.
Your baby will go through many changes in their first year of life. Find out how their nutrition needs change and how you can support their physical development, communication and transition to other caregivers.
Blood tests can help your health-care team diagnose cancer and see how your treatment is working. Discover how blood tests are done, the types of blood tests and why they are done.
Curiosity is the most powerful ingredient in learning. Find tips on how to nurture curiosity in your child.
The Neonatal Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up Clinic assesses babies who have been admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) or Cardiac Critical Care Unit (CCCU) and may be at risk for developmental issues. Learn about what you can expect during your baby's development and how you can help your child achieve developmental milestones.
Learn about the role that genetics plays in many heart conditions that afflict children.
Learn about newborn nutrition, routine care and everyday health issues as well as some common physical and emotional adjustments to life after pregnancy.
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 benefits of providing oral immune therapy to your hospitalized baby using expressed breast milk.
Learn how "care-by-parent" prepares you to care for a child with complex needs when they are discharged from hospital.
Learn what to expect when your child has a tracheotomy and is fitted with a tracheostomy tube.
Mark National Nutrition Month by learning about the nutrients and routines that can help with your child's mental wellbeing.
Learn what nutrition is optimal for your child from the time they are born to the time they are a teen. Learn about the different food groups and find information about the different nutrients that food contains.
A guide on giving your child injections into the muscle (intramuscular) at home.
Learn about DSM-5, the new criteria for diagnosing autism that were introduced in 2013.
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.
In this section of the site, you will learn about the issues children born with congenital heart condition may face at different ages.
Maintaining a healthy diet is an essential part of diabetes management. Learn why it's so important.
Learn tips to help navigate the transitions you and your child will experience during their hospital stay for intestinal failure and when planning to return home from the hospital.
Learn about the procedures during your child's allogeneic blood and marrow transplant.
