Learn about making sleep time easier and safer for your newborn baby.
Read about sudden infant deaths while sleeping and about ways parents and caregivers can lower the risk in infants.
Learn about managing your baby's crying. Keeping calm and comforting your baby will often help soothe them.
How to effectively keep your newborn baby safe and comforted. Tips, such as holding them to offer proper head support, are included.
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 benefits of tummy time and how to encourage your baby to spend supervised awake time on their stomach.
Learn about newborn nutrition, routine care and everyday health issues as well as some common physical and emotional adjustments to life after pregnancy.
Learn about the SickKids interprofessional outpatient clinic for newborn babies to assist in the diagnosis and non-operative treatment of DDH.
In bilateral choanal atresia both sides of the nasal passage are blocked by bone or soft tissue. Learn what happens during surgery and how to take care of your child at home.
Learn how to effectively keep your baby safe when using baby equipment, including change tables, cribs, strollers, carriers/slings, playpens and more.
This page provides recommendations to encourage neurodevelopment in babies aged six weeks, who have spent time in the NICU or CCCU.
Learn about how long the average person should sleep, what happens when you sleep and why sleep is important.
Kangaroo care is skin-to-skin touch between a parent and baby. Learn more about kangaroo care and the benefits of skin-to-skin contact.
Read about keeping a child with epilepsy safe at home, at school and with friends.
Learn about some of the common problems your child may have when falling asleep and staying asleep and what you can do to help your child sleep well.
It is important to pay attention to infant mental health, especially for babies with congenital heart disease (CHD). Learn how to read your baby's cues and how you can help your baby achieve their developmental milestones.
Fixing a cleft lip involves two operations. Learn about the operations and what you need to know before, during and after both surgeries.
A CT scan uses X-rays to produce images of the body. Learn about how CT scans work, when they are used, and what to expect during the procedure.
This page provides recommendations to encourage neurodevelopment in four month old babies who have spent time in the NICU or CCCU.
Learn about the possible causes of colic and ways to treat it. Colic, though upsetting for you and your baby, often goes away by three or four months of age.
Learn about flat head syndrome and how it is treated.
Learn how to lower the risk of passing HIV to your baby and how the doctor can tell if your baby has HIV once they are born.
If you are infected with HIV and pregnant, learn how certain medicines can lower the risk of passing HIV on to your baby.
If your infant has heart surgery, there are specific activity recommendations you must follow. Learn how to help your infant recover after heart surgery.
Discover the physical and behavioural signs that your baby may be ill and learn when to take your baby to a health-care provider.
