How to effectively keep your newborn baby safe and comforted. Tips, such as holding them to offer proper head support, are included.
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 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.
Learn about managing your baby's crying. Keeping calm and comforting your baby will often help soothe them.
Most changes in stool are from a diet change, but some may need medical attention. Learn the signs, symptoms and treatments for unusual stool.
Learn all about your newborn baby's eyesight, hearing, and senses of taste, touch and smell.
Crying in newborns is part of normal development. Learn how to effectively recognize the different types of cries your newborn baby might have.
Read about your newborn baby's first movements and reflexes after birth. The grasping reflex, crawling reflex and startle reflex are discussed.
Learn about the different types of newborn screening and what to do if your baby has positive newborn screening results.
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.
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 respiratory distress syndrome, a common condition in very premature babies.
Fixing a cleft lip involves two operations. Learn about the operations and what you need to know before, during and after both surgeries.
Learn how to effectively keep your baby safe when using baby equipment, including change tables, cribs, strollers, carriers/slings, playpens and more.
Learn about the development of a baby's vision in the first year of life, including the development of spatial perception and depth perception.
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 infantile spasms, a type of epilepsy. Learn how infantile spasms are diagnosed and treated, and who can help you and your baby.
Learn about what is involved in changing a baby's diaper.
Learn how to take care of your newborn son after he is circumcised.
Learn about the arterial switch procedure, a surgery that is done to correct transposition of the great arteries.
Read about the causes, diagnosis and treatment of neonatal seizures.
Read about social and emotional development in a baby’s first year of life.
