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This pamphlet provides information on breast or bottle feeding a newborn baby with a cleft lip and/or palate.
This pamphlets contains information about Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI) and Selective Serotonin-Norephinephrine Reuptake Inhibitors (SNRI). SSRIs include Paroxetine and Fluoxetine. SNRIs include Duloxetine.; This handout explains:; - How to store and use this medication;; - What t…
A pamphlet that explains what to expect after dental treatment. It provides post operative information on: bleeding, cleaning, stitches and eating.
This pamphlet explains what to expect after your child's strabismus repair surgery, and how to care for your child as they recover.
Written in Vietnamese, this pamphlet includes helpful tips for parents about helping children cope with medical procedures and surgery.
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.
For BCW NICU parents and caregivers. This diagram shows the steps to bringing your baby home with feeding support.
This pamphlets contains nursing discharge instructions for your child after surgery. It also explains how to care for your child after surgery, and when to get help.
This handout is for parents and caregivers of toddlers (age 1-2 years) having surgery at BC Children's Hospital. Learn what your toddler may find stressful, and how you can prepare your toddler for surgery.
This handout is for parents and caregivers of preschool-aged children (age 3-5 years) having surgery at BC Children's Hospital. Learn what your child may find stressful, and how you can prepare your child for surgery.
This handout is for parents and caregivers of teenage children (age 13 or older) having surgery at BC Children's Hospital. Learn what your teen may find stressful, and how you can prepare your teen for surgery.
These suggestions can help you and your child manage stress before, during, and after their; procedure.; Some children may need to talk about the procedure and their coping plan several times. Other children just need to prepare once.; You know your child best. Please adapt these suggestions to sui…
This handout is for parents and caregivers of children having surgery at BC Children's Hospital. Learn how your child's siblings may feel, and how you can help them cope with their sibling's surgery.
This handout is for parents and caregivers of school-aged children (age 6-12 years) having surgery at BC Children's Hospital. Learn what your child may find stressful, and how you can prepare your child for surgery.
When you are in labour it is important to know what to eat and drink.This handout lists foods that are easily digested, and clear fluids you might want to drink. It also lists foods to avoid. Check with your health care provider about eating or drinking as your labour progresses.
This pamphlet provides general guidelines for healthy eating for women with diabetes during pregnancy.
This handout goes through the steps of managing and taking care of a Blake Drain.
When your child has a new burn or wound, food is very important. Your child needs more calories (energy) to help heal the skin.; Learn how nutrition can help your child to heal. This handout explains how to:; -Optimize meal times; -Offer high-calorie foods; -Offer high-protein foods; You will also …
This booklet contains a collection of quick and delicious recipes that can help toddlers, children & youth bond with parents and siblings.
Information on how to prepare for your child's heart surgery including dental care, what happens at the pre-admission clinic, what to do if your child becomes ill before surgery, how to prepare your child, what to pack, visiting.
This one page pamphlet describes the recommended steps to care for your child's chest wound.
This pamphlet explains how you can help your child heal when they have an acticoat dressing, and what to expect next.
A guide to help parents care for their child after heart surgery. Topics include: care of your child's incision; diet; pain management; post-surgical behaviour; activity; immunizations; returning to school and day care; preventing infection; and Post Pericardiotomy Syndrome(PPS).
Explains what a seizure is, what you should and should not do when your child is having a seizure.
Information on how to care for your child after cleft palate surgery including feeding, mouth care, ear and throat care, and pain management.
Information on how to care for your child after cleft lip surgery including feeding, healing and incision care, pain management, and orthodontic appliances.
This handout is for parents and caregivers of infants having surgery at BC Children's Hospital. Learn what your infant may find stressful, and how you can prepare your infant for surgery.
Learn about why your child needs an implanted port, how they get one, and how the port works. Includes illustrations.
Learn how to flush Heparin solution through your child's implanted port. Includes photographs.
Learn about living with an insuflon, like when it should be replaced, and how to give medicine through the insuflon.
Learn what to expect if your child has a nerve block after surgery, and how to care for them. This document explains what is normal, how to care for your child, and when to get help.
Your child may have a caudal nerve block to reduce their pain after surgery. Learn what to expect when your child receives a caudal nerve block, how to care for your child while the block is working, and when to get help.
Bronchiolitis is a cold virus (often Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)) that has gone down into your child's lungs. This pamphlet provides information about what to do, what treatments are available, and when to go to your family doctor and the emergency room.
This pamphlet offers advice to parents and caregivers on how to care for your child with croup. It explains croup, the symptoms, what you can do at home, how it's diagnosed and also how it's treated.
Nerve blocks are performed by delivering local anesthetic (numbing medication) around the nerves that carry painful sensation from the surgical site or limb (arm or leg).; Learn how to care for your child at home, when they have an elastomeric pump. This handout explains what to expect, and when to…
How to care for your child at home, after your child gets an intrauterine device (IUD). Includes when to get help.
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…
Information on how to start and keep up breast milk supply when a baby is not breastfeeding.
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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This handout teaches those diagnosed or at risk of osteoporosis what their diet should consist of. Included: calcium and vitamin D recommended doses, foods to avoid, getting calcium from both food and supplement sources.
This pamphlet provides information and instructions on how to catheterize your child.
Answers to frequently asked questions about nostril splinting for cleft lip and nasal deformity including: what a nostril splint is, how it's made, how long it is worn for; care of the splint.
Discusses aveolar bone graft, a surgery to repair a cleft in a gum. Provides information for parents on how to care for their child after this surgery.
Explains the timing, procedure and care for alveolar cleft bone graft, a surgery to repair a cleft in a gum. Provides information for parents and guardians with children undergoing the surgery.
Provides information to help parents make a choice about using Sucrose to manage infant pain.
Learn how to tell if your infant or child has a fever, what medicines you can give them, and when to get help.
This pamphlet offers advice for parents and caregivers on how to know if your child has a fever, what you can do at home, and how it's diagnosed by a doctor.