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Social and emotional development in a baby’s first year

Read about social and emotional development in a baby’s first year of life. 

Breath-holding spells

Breath-holding in children can be scary but is usually harmless. Read on to learn more.

Energy boosting during baby's first year

Sometimes infants do not gain weight at the rate they are supposed to. Find out ways to increase your baby's caloric intake in a healthy manner.

What can I do about bad breath?

Learn about what causes bad breath and how you can prevent or treat it.

Your baby's cleft lip repair

Fixing a cleft lip involves two operations. Learn about the operations and what you need to know before, during and after both surgeries.

Meditation

Meditation is a technique you can use to handle stress, pain or other strong emotions. Learn how you can practice meditation to help calm your mind.

Lung volume recruitment: How it helps your child to take a deep breath

Discover how to perform lung volume recruitment with your child to help them take deep breaths.

Mindfulness meditations for celiac disease

A series of guided audio meditations to help you relax, focus on your thoughts and cope with pain and stress related to the daily stress of managing celiac disease.

Physiotherapy after heart surgery

Following heart surgery, your child will need to exercise to keep their lungs clear. Read how deep breathing, splinted coughing and moving will help.

Relaxation methods for sickle cell pain: Deep breathing

Many people take short, shallow breaths when they feel stress or pain, which makes the heart work harder to get oxygen throughout the body and increases muscle tension. Learn how to practise deep breathing to reduce tension and pain.

Mini-relaxation

Asthma: Using a Diskus inhaler

A Diskus inhaler delivers asthma medicine in powder form. Learn how to properly use a Diskus inhaler.

Nasal congestion: How to clear your baby's dry, stuffy nose

Learn about how you can help newborns and older babies if they have a stuffy nose.

Signs and symptoms of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children

Learn about the signs and symptoms of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), which can cause physical and neurological changes in your child.

Poison: First aid

Learn how to identify signs of poisoning in your child, and how to treat and prevent it.

CPR in a baby (0 to 12 months): First aid

CPR is a life-saving technique that combines chest compressions and rescue breaths (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation). Along with hands-on CPR training, this information can help save your baby's life.

How to take care of your teeth

Find out how to properly take care of your teeth at home, why it’s so important, and how often you really need to go to the dentist.

CPR in a child (from age 1 to puberty)

CPR is a life-saving technique that combines chest compressions and rescue breaths (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation).

Basic yoga poses

Hemophilia and cigarette smoking

Teens living with hemophilia can learn why smoking is bad news for their health.

Understanding your baby's feeding cues

Learn the signs that your baby is ready to feed themselves and find out how to keep them safe while they eat solid foods.

Being part of your baby's health-care team

Learn how parents can effectively participate in the care of a baby in the NICU.

Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)

Find out what causes obsesive compulsive disorder (OCD), the signs and symptoms and how it is treated.

Incentive spirometry or bubbles: Encouraging deep breathing to clear the lungs

Learn how your child can exercise their lungs to reduce the risk of breathing problems.

Salmeterol

Your child needs to take the medicine called salmeterol. This information sheet explains what salmeterol does, how to give it, and what side effects or problems your child may have when they take this medicine.