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Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
Search our collection of print books, eBooks, CDs and DVDs, games, and teaching tools on health topics.
Booklet describing breastfeeding techniques and common problems associated with breastfeeding.
This 3 page pamphlet provides tips on breastfeeding for multiple babies. Includes tips on getting started, what to do if your babies are in NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) or IN (Intermediate Nursery), as well as information on breast feeding supplies.
These easy steps explain how to massage and hand express breast milk.
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…
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.
What to eat and avoid when breastfeeding your baby with a cow's milk protein allergy, or CMPA.
This guide for families summarizes the results of an international consensus on the medical care of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). This effort was supported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in collaboration with patient advocacy groups and the TREAT-NMD network. The m…
This resource provides information about violence and BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre, Girls Speak Out program, its curriculum and some recommended websites about this topic. It's aimed to support women with experiences of violence.
As a new parent you may have questions about what to expect following the birth of your baby. This booklet is organized to follow your journey through the hospital immediately following delivery and provides information for when you and your baby are home.; This booklet is a companion to the bcwome…
This book is of use to grandparents as well as the professionals and legal service providers that support them. It is based on interviews with nearly 200 grandparents across the; province of British Columbia who have had to deal with the issues and challenges of raising their grandchildren. It prov…
This pamphlet provides information on breast or bottle feeding a newborn baby with a cleft lip and/or palate.
Information on how to start and keep up breast milk supply when a baby is not breastfeeding.
For BCW NICU parents and caregivers. This diagram shows the steps to bringing your baby home with respiratory support.
This resource provides an overview of how to protect your baby from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Provides information to help parents make a choice about using Sucrose to manage infant pain.
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.
This booklet contains information about breastfeeding, specifically for mothers who have babies in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.)