Helpful tips on holding and dressing a baby. Though they are not as fragile as they look, it is important to handle your baby gently for them to feel safe.
How to effectively keep your newborn baby safe and comforted. Tips, such as holding them to offer proper head support, are included.
Learn about managing your baby's crying. Keeping calm and comforting your baby will often help soothe them.
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.
If your child has a CVL or PICC, the dressing must be changed regularly to prevent infection. Learn how to change your child's CVL or PICC dressing using antiseptic non-touch technique.
Read about your newborn baby's first movements and reflexes after birth. The grasping reflex, crawling reflex and startle reflex are discussed.
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.
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.
Discover the various stages of your baby's nutrition and how to handle issues such as spitting up.
Learn how to effectively keep your baby safe when using baby equipment, including change tables, cribs, strollers, carriers/slings, playpens and more.
Kangaroo care is skin-to-skin touch between a parent and baby. Learn more about kangaroo care and the benefits of skin-to-skin contact.
Find out how to safely hold and support your baby or child with osteoporosis.
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.
Learn all about your newborn baby's eyesight, hearing, and senses of taste, touch and smell.
Read about useful tips to care for infant skin, nails, teeth and gums.
You can still work on breastfeeding while your baby is in the hospital. Learn how to prepare for breastfeeding and recognize your baby’s feeding cues.
Learn about the benefits of tummy time and how to encourage your baby to spend supervised awake time on their stomach.
Learn how to take care of your newborn son after he is circumcised.
Learn about the SickKids interprofessional outpatient clinic for newborn babies to assist in the diagnosis and non-operative treatment of DDH.
Crying in newborns is part of normal development. Learn how to effectively recognize the different types of cries your newborn baby might have.
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 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.
