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.
How to effectively give a baby a bath, either in the baby tub or the "big" tub. Considerations for bathtub safety are provided.
Play gives babies the opportunity for social interaction and learning. Find examples of appropriate toys for hospitalized babies from birth to 12 months.
Babies can feel pain. Learn about ways pain in newborns and babies can be assessed and techniques that can help ease pain.
Learn about possible outcomes for premature babies.
Learn about respiratory distress syndrome, a common condition in very premature babies.
Read about apnea of prematurity, which is a condition in which premature babies take unusually long pauses (usually more than 20 seconds) between breaths.
Learn about making sleep time easier and safer for your newborn baby.
Learn about the common causes of chronic lung disease in premature babies and the ways to diagnose and treat it.
Discover the physical and behavioural signs that your baby may be ill and learn when to take your baby to a health-care provider.
The recommendations in this article are for parents who are expressing and storing breast milk for their hospitalized babies. Breast milk acts as a medicine in babies who are sick or premature, and has the right nutritional balance for your baby.
Learn about the guidelines for daily physical activity, sleep and screen time for babies, children and teens.
Learn about what a premature baby needs to eat and how they can get proper nutrition.
Very premature babies are at risk for metabolic bone disease, a condition that affects their bone health and increases the risk of fractures.
Information for parents about trisomy 13, a rare genetic condition that causes developmental delay and affects many different organ systems.
Read about useful tips to care for infant skin, nails, teeth and gums.
Learn how an ostomy impacts your baby's day-to-day activities and about considerations for protecting the stoma and ostomy pouch.
Read about various behavioral problems that premature babies may develop as they grow. In general, the most premature babies are more at risk.
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 your newborn baby's nutritional requirements and how to successfully feed them.
Learn about anemia of prematurity, what causes it and how it is treated.
Read about the sensory systems, sensory development in the first 18 months of a baby’s life and how your baby may be influenced by sensation. Suggestions such as gentle rocking, skin to skin contact, swinging and movement input are provided.
Learn how to effectively keep your baby safe when using baby equipment, including change tables, cribs, strollers, carriers/slings, playpens and more.
Recommendations to encourage neurodevelopment in babies at 18 months old who have spent time in the neonatal neurodevelopment follow-up clinic.
Read about intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH), or bleeding in the brain, in premature babies.
