Read about your newborn baby's first movements and reflexes after birth. The grasping reflex, crawling reflex and startle reflex are discussed.
Learn all about your newborn baby's eyesight, hearing, and senses of taste, touch and smell.
Learn about the different types of newborn screening and what to do if your baby has positive newborn screening results.
Learn about making sleep time easier and safer for your newborn baby.
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 various types of breathing problems in newborn babies and the care that is provided to help them.
Learn about the various skin conditions and birthmarks that can arise in a newborn baby.
Learn about possible outcomes for premature babies.
Read about various behavioral problems that premature babies may develop as they grow. In general, the most premature babies are more at risk.
Learn what meconium is and what meconium-related conditions can occur in newborns.
Learn about how newborns and infants are safely transported from a community hospital or nursing station to a hospital that can provide the necessary expertise to care for sick premature or term babies.
Learn about your newborn baby's nutritional requirements and how to successfully feed them.
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a rare but serious disease that affects the bowels of premature or newborn infants. Learn more about the symptoms, causes and treatment of the condition.
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 about the development of a baby's vision in the first year of life, including the development of spatial perception and depth perception.
Read about expected growth and weight gain in the first year of a baby's life. Growth charts and information about head circumference are also provided.
Learn about respiratory distress syndrome, a common condition in very premature babies.
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.
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 anemia of prematurity, what causes it and how it is treated.
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.
Very premature babies are at risk for metabolic bone disease, a condition that affects their bone health and increases the risk of fractures.
Positional clubfoot is a condition that can affect one or both feet of newborn babies. Learn more about why this happens and stretches and exercises to help treat clubfoot.
Learn about the signs and symptoms of hearing loss in babies and toddlers and what happens during the infant hearing screening process.
Information for parents about trisomy 18, a rare genetic condition that causes developmental delay and affects many different organ systems.
