Learn about newborn nutrition, routine care and everyday health issues as well as some common physical and emotional adjustments to life after pregnancy.
Learn all about your newborn baby's eyesight, hearing, and senses of taste, touch and smell.
Read about your newborn baby's first movements and reflexes after birth. The grasping reflex, crawling reflex and startle reflex are discussed.
Learn about your newborn baby's nutritional requirements and how to successfully feed them.
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 making sleep time easier and safer for your newborn baby.
Learn about the different types of newborn screening and what to do if your baby has positive newborn screening results.
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 what to consider and expect when deciding on a routine newborn circumcision.
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.
Read about various types of breathing problems in newborn babies and the care that is provided to help them.
Crying in newborns is part of normal development. Learn how to effectively recognize the different types of cries your newborn baby might have.
Learn about the various skin conditions and birthmarks that can arise in a newborn baby.
How to effectively keep your newborn baby safe and comforted. Tips, such as holding them to offer proper head support, are included.
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.
Read about pain assessment in babies (from newborns to one year olds). Both behavioral reactions and physical reactions to pain are assessed.
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.
A fever can be a sign that the body is fighting an infection. Learn how to properly care for your baby, toddler or child with a fever.
Learn about biliary atresia, a liver disease in babies, and the new screening program that is used to help identify babies with biliary atresia earlier.
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.
Read about infections and the immune system of premature babies. A premature baby is susceptible to infection because their immune system is immature.
Find out how to recognize and treat the signs and symptoms of a roseola infection.
Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) occurs when a fetus is infected with a virus called cytomegalovirus. Learn more about how cCMV happens, the signs and symptoms of cCMV and how it is diagnosed and treated.
Learn about strokes occurring in newborns. Stroke is caused by a blockage of the blood vessels in the brain and can happen at any age. Stroke occurs as frequently in newborns as in the elderly, yet it often goes unrecognized and untreated.
