Learn about newborn nutrition, routine care and everyday health issues as well as some common physical and emotional adjustments to life after pregnancy.
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.
Discover the physical and behavioural signs that your baby may be ill and learn when to take your baby to a health-care provider.
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.
Learn about making sleep time easier and safer for your newborn baby.
Learn about your newborn baby's nutritional requirements and how to successfully feed them.
Learn about managing your baby's crying. Keeping calm and comforting your baby will often help soothe them.
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 how to effectively keep your baby safe when using baby equipment, including change tables, cribs, strollers, carriers/slings, playpens and more.
Learn all about your newborn baby's eyesight, hearing, and senses of taste, touch and smell.
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.
Learn about the various skin conditions and birthmarks that can arise in a newborn baby.
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 the SickKids interprofessional outpatient clinic for newborn babies to assist in the diagnosis and non-operative treatment of DDH.
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 social and emotional development in a baby’s first year of life.
Learn about strokes occurring in newborns. Stroke is caused by a blockage of the blood vessels in the brain and can happen at any age. Stroke occurs as frequently in newborns as in the elderly, yet it often goes unrecognized and untreated.
Learn about various eye conditions that can arise during infancy, such as uncoordinated eyes, crossed eyes, and teary eyes.
You can still work on breastfeeding while your baby is in the hospital. Learn how to prepare for breastfeeding and recognize your baby’s feeding cues.
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 the development of a baby's vision in the first year of life, including the development of spatial perception and depth perception.
Learn what meconium is and what meconium-related conditions can occur in newborns.
