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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 the development of a baby's vision in the first year of life, including the development of spatial perception and depth perception.
Learn about respiratory distress syndrome, a common condition in very premature babies.
Learn how to effectively keep your baby safe when using baby equipment, including change tables, cribs, strollers, carriers/slings, playpens and more.
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 how to take care of your newborn son after he is circumcised.
Acne is the most common skin condition in teens. Learn what it is, what it looks like and how you can treat it.
Learn about what is involved in changing a baby's diaper.
Fixing a cleft lip involves two operations. Learn about the operations and what you need to know before, during and after both surgeries.
Read about the causes, diagnosis and treatment of neonatal seizures.
Learn what meconium is and what meconium-related conditions can occur in newborns.
Learn about the arterial switch procedure, a surgery that is done to correct transposition of the great arteries.
