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This handout explains why your baby may have low blood sugar, how nurses check your baby's blood sugar, and how you can help your baby.
What to eat and avoid when breastfeeding your baby with a cow's milk protein allergy, or CMPA.
This pamphlet lists places to find high-quality information online. It also explains how to find a dietitian, and how a dietitian can help with food allergies in children.
This pamphlet will explain what a research clinical trial is and help you make an informed decision about whether participating in one is right for you and your family member.
A practical and informative guide for parents who discover their unborn child has a heart problem. Sections include: answers to commonly asked questions; choices and decisions; talking about feelings; building your support team; pregnancy-related questions.
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A printing program, developed by the Sunny Hill Health Research Centre Therapy Department, to support primary grade children learn the correct way to form each letter so that printing becomes easier and more automatic. This can also help to make printing neater and quicker. This printing program is…
Explains what a seizure is, what you should and should not do when your child is having a seizure.
Learn about the exercise program recommended for you after you give birth by cesarean section.
Includes information about Ureteral Stents, when they're used, what to expect after surgery, how to care for your child, and follow up appointments.
Booklet describing breastfeeding techniques and common problems associated with breastfeeding.
This pamphlet provides information to parents about Synagis, a medication that helps a child's body fight off a serious respiratory syncytial virus, also called RSV.
Learn about why your child needs an implanted port, how they get one, and how the port works. Includes illustrations.
Learn about living with an insuflon, like when it should be replaced, and how to give medicine through the insuflon.
In Punjabi, this pamphlet provides information to parents about Synagis, a medication that helps a child's body fight off a serious respiratory syncytial virus, also called RSV.
In Traditional Chinese, this pamphlet provides information to parents about Synagis, a medication that helps a child's body fight off a serious respiratory syncytial virus, also called RSV.
Provides information for parents about respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) including symptoms and how to protect children against RSV.
This pamphlet answers some of the most commonly asked questions about mastitis. (Mastitis is an infection of the breast tissue and/or milk ducts.)
This pamphlet will explain:; What early labour is; What early labour feels like; What you can do for comfort in early labour; What to do if you need more help coping with contractions; When to call your doctor or midwife; The pamphlet also shows example labour positions.
This pamphlet will explain:; What early labour is; What early labour feels like; What you can do for comfort in early labour; What to do if you need more help coping with contractions; When to call your doctor or midwife; The pamphlet also shows example labour positions.
This pamphlet will explain:; What early labour is; What early labour feels like; What you can do for comfort in early labour; What to do if you need more help coping with contractions; When to call your doctor or midwife; The pamphlet also shows example labour positions.
This pamphlet will explain:; What early labour is; What early labour feels like; What you can do for comfort in early labour; What to do if you need more help coping with contractions; When to call your doctor or midwife; The pamphlet also shows example labour positions.
Written in Punjabi, this pamphlet provides information for parents about respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) including symptoms and how to protect children against RSV.
This pamphlet will explain:; What early labour is; What early labour feels like; What you can do for comfort in early labour; What to do if you need more help coping with contractions; When to call your doctor or midwife; The pamphlet also shows example labour positions.
This pamphlet will explain:; What early labour is; What early labour feels like; What you can do for comfort in early labour; What to do if you need more help coping with contractions; When to call your doctor or midwife; The pamphlet also shows example labour positions.
Written in Traditional Chinese, this pamphlet provides information for parents about respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) including symptoms and how to protect children against RSV.
Provides information to help parents make a choice about using Sucrose to manage infant pain.
Advice sheet for parents on how to take care of your baby when he or she has colic. Includes tips on what you can do to help, when to see your family doctor, and when to bring your baby to the Emergency Deparment.
This patient handout provides an overview of using the cell saver during a caesarean section.
This pamphlet provides information about C. difficile, also known as Clostridium difficile or C.diff. It's a germ (bacteria) that can cause diarrhea.; It answers the questions about what it is, who can get it, how it's treated, how it spreads, how the hospital prevents the spread, what you can do t…
This pamphlet answers the most frequently asked questions about when your water breaks early, also known as premature rupture of membranes or PROM.
A guide for parents and families to support their youth (12-24 years old) in the planning and preparation for adulthood and adult health care.
Information on how to start and keep up breast milk supply when a baby is not breastfeeding.
Threatened preterm labour is a term of labour that happens at least 3 or more weeks before your expected date of birth. This information will help you understand how your Home Care Nursing Team and your doctor are planning to keep you and your baby safe and healthy while you are at home.
Your doctor or nurse practitioner has ordered a medical imaging test that requires you to have an injection of contrast media.; While it is possible that tiny amounts of contrast media can enter breast milk, we want you to know that it is safe to continue to breast feed your baby.; This document ex…
Contains information for families on Reduced Placental Function. This handout answers commonly asked questions, including: What is placental function? What does this mean for the baby? What will my nurse do? When do I need to call for help?