The SickKids Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) provides care for newborns up to four weeks of age. Find information about life in the NICU, conditions that affect newborns and premature babies and what to expect when leaving the NICU.
Learn about the challenges that parents/caregivers and families may experience when a baby is admitted to the NICU.
Read about the various health-care team members who care for babies admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Learn how parents can effectively participate in the care of a baby in the NICU.
Recommendations for babies who have spent time in the NICU or CCCU to help improve neurodevelopment at 12 months.
Recommendations for babies who have spent time in the NICU or CCCU to help improve neurodevelopment at eight months.
Learn about the immediate experience of neonatal intensive care, which is a very emotional, physical and practical challenge for parents and families.
Recommendations to encourage neurodevelopment in babies at 36 months old who are patients in the neonatal developmental follow-up clinic.
This page provides recommendations to encourage neurodevelopment in four month old babies who have spent time in the NICU or CCCU.
Learn about how families and the health-care team work together to make important decisions about the care of babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
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.
Recommendations to encourage neurodevelopment in babies at 18 months old who have spent time in the neonatal neurodevelopment follow-up clinic.
This page provides recommendations to encourage neurodevelopment in babies aged six weeks, who have spent time in the NICU or CCCU.
Read about the causes, diagnosis and treatment of neonatal seizures.
Developmental paediatricians are doctors who specialize in child development. Learn what they do and how they can help your child.
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.
Read about issues that parents and caregivers must address in order to prepare for a baby's discharge from the NICU and arrival at home.
Read about the causes, diagnosis and treatment of post-hemorrhagic ventricular dilatation (PHVD) in newborn babies.
Learn about several types of lines and catheters inserted into a vein that are used for vascular access on a premature baby or ill newborn.
While DDH cannot always be prevented, there are hip healthy practices that may reduce the risk of developing DDH. Read about the practices and equipment that may help.
Learn how to cope when your child has been diagnosed with and treated for developmental dysplasia of the hip and find resources and supports to help you and your family.
An osteotomy is a surgical procedure in which the bone is cut and realigned or reshaped. Learn why a child with developmental dysplasia of the hip may need an osteotomy and what to expect after surgery.
A list of resources for transitioning to adult care.
Read about the different methods of assisting babies with their breathing in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
Read about the causes, diagnosis and treatment of hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) in newborn babies.
