Read about different types of attachment that a baby or child might develop. Attachment issues, such as disorganized attachment, are discussed.
All babies are born relationship ready. Babies are also born with attachment-based behaviours (crying) that cue their caregiver when they are in distress and need them close. Learn how the baby’s cry and the caregiver’s response to the cry develops the attachment relationship.
Learn how a baby's system of attachment develops over the first year of life. Attachment will solidify as a baby's memory develops.
Learn how to effectively foster and promote a secure attachment pattern between you and your baby or child. Also learn how to provide experiences that create trust by making your infant and child feel understood and comforted.
Your baby will go through many changes in their first year of life. Find out how their nutrition needs change and how you can support their physical development, communication and transition to other caregivers.
Learn about attachment, and the social and emotional development of babies. Explore topics such as bullying, anger management, resilience, puberty, sexuality and sleep.
Learn about newborn nutrition, routine care and everyday health issues as well as some common physical and emotional adjustments to life after pregnancy.
The Neonatal Neurodevelopmental Follow-Up Clinic assesses babies who have been admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) or Cardiac Critical Care Unit (CCCU) and may be at risk for developmental issues. Learn about what you can expect during your baby's development and how you can help your child achieve developmental milestones.
This page describes the common symptoms of arthritis in young people, and how they can affect regular activities. Symptoms can vary from person to person, and from day-to-day.
Blood tests can help your health-care team diagnose cancer and see how your treatment is working. Discover how blood tests are done, the types of blood tests and why they are done.
Learn tips to help navigate the transitions you and your child will experience during their hospital stay for intestinal failure and when planning to return home from the hospital.
Learn about cognitive development, or the ability to think, over the second six months of a baby's first year.
Curiosity is the most powerful ingredient in learning. Find tips on how to nurture curiosity in your child.
When you have a child with a complex health condition it is a good idea to write a letter to your child's school to give them the information they need.
Find out how to work with your child's school to support your child with ADHD.
An in-depth discussion of the importance of understanding your child's brain cancer treatment and diagnosis in order to make decisions.
A tympanoplasty is an operation to fix a hole in your child's eardrum. Learn about tympanoplasty and how to help your child recover from surgery.
Find out who you should tell about your child's osteoporosis.
Discover how OCD can impact a child's family, school life, and social life trajectory.
Learn about the benefits of providing oral immune therapy to your hospitalized baby using expressed breast milk.
This page provides recommendations to encourage neurodevelopment in four month old babies who have spent time in the NICU or CCCU.
Learn what to expect when your child has a tracheotomy and is fitted with a tracheostomy tube.
Skin reactions are a common side effect of radiation therapy. Learn tips to help you manage skin reactions and what you should avoid.
There are certain things that you will need to do to prepare to come to the hospital on the day of your child’s surgery. Review the checklists in this article to help you and your child get ready for surgery.
Discover the phases of your child's limb lengthening and reconstruction treatment.
