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Social and emotional development in a baby’s first year

Read about social and emotional development in a baby’s first year of life. 

Breath-holding spells

Breath-holding in children can be scary but is usually harmless. Read on to learn more.

What can I do about bad breath?

Learn about what causes bad breath and how you can prevent or treat it.

Energy boosting during baby's first year

Sometimes infants do not gain weight at the rate they are supposed to. Find out ways to increase your baby's caloric intake in a healthy manner.

Your baby's cleft lip repair

Fixing a cleft lip involves two operations. Learn about the operations and what you need to know before, during and after both surgeries.

Lung volume recruitment: How it helps your child to take a deep breath

Discover how to perform lung volume recruitment with your child to help them take deep breaths.

Meditation

Meditation is a technique you can use to handle stress, pain or other strong emotions. Learn how you can practice meditation to help calm your mind.

Mini-relaxation

Nasal congestion: How to clear your baby's dry, stuffy nose

Learn about how you can help newborns and older babies if they have a stuffy nose.

Mindfulness meditations for celiac disease

A series of guided audio meditations to help you relax, focus on your thoughts and cope with pain and stress related to the daily stress of managing celiac disease.

Physiotherapy after heart surgery

Following heart surgery, your child will need to exercise to keep their lungs clear. Read how deep breathing, splinted coughing and moving will help.

Relaxation methods for sickle cell pain: Deep breathing

Many people take short, shallow breaths when they feel stress or pain, which makes the heart work harder to get oxygen throughout the body and increases muscle tension. Learn how to practise deep breathing to reduce tension and pain.

Poison: First aid

Learn how to identify signs of poisoning in your child, and how to treat and prevent it.

Asthma: Using a Diskus inhaler

A Diskus inhaler delivers asthma medicine in powder form. Learn how to properly use a Diskus inhaler.

CPR in a baby (0 to 12 months): First aid

CPR is a life-saving technique that combines chest compressions and rescue breaths (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation). Along with hands-on CPR training, this information can help save your baby's life.

Understanding your baby's feeding cues

Learn the signs that your baby is ready to feed themselves and find out how to keep them safe while they eat solid foods.

Signs and symptoms of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children

Learn about the signs and symptoms of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), which can cause physical and neurological changes in your child.

Basic yoga poses

Hemophilia and cigarette smoking

Teens living with hemophilia can learn why smoking is bad news for their health.

How to take care of your teeth

Find out how to properly take care of your teeth at home, why it’s so important, and how often you really need to go to the dentist.

Blocked tear duct surgery

A blocked tear duct stops the flow of tears from the eye down into the nose. Learn how a blocked tear duct can be treated.

CPR in a child (from age 1 to puberty)

CPR is a life-saving technique that combines chest compressions and rescue breaths (mouth-to-mouth resuscitation).

First aid kit

Find a list of supplies and medicines to include in a first aid kit. It is recommended that there be an equipped first aid kit in the house and in the car.

Interrupted aortic arch

Learn about interrupted aortic arch in children. This is a defect of the aorta not developing properly, and causes congestive heart failure.

Being part of your baby's health-care team

Learn how parents can effectively participate in the care of a baby in the NICU.