Learn about newborn nutrition, routine care and everyday health issues as well as some common physical and emotional adjustments to life after pregnancy.
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.
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 your newborn baby's nutritional requirements and how to successfully feed them.
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.
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.
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 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.
How to effectively keep your newborn baby safe and comforted. Tips, such as holding them to offer proper head support, are included.
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 the symptoms of neonatal withdrawal syndromes and approaches to treatment.
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.
Read about pain assessment in babies (from newborns to one year olds). Both behavioral reactions and physical reactions to pain are assessed.
A fever can be a sign that the body is fighting an infection. Learn how to properly care for your baby, toddler or child with a fever.
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.
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.
Find out how to recognize and treat the signs and symptoms of a roseola infection.
Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) occurs when a fetus is infected with a virus called cytomegalovirus. Learn more about how cCMV happens, the signs and symptoms of cCMV and how it is diagnosed and treated.
A premature baby is susceptible to infection because their immune system is immature. Read more about infections and the immune system of premature babies.
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.
