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Pregnancy
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Delivery
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Baby
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Feeding your child
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Foods
- When should I introduce foods?
- How should I introduce foods?
- Choking risk: Be extra careful until age 4
- Honey — never for babies under age 1
- Baby food basics
- 6 to 12 months — your baby’s first foods
- Start with iron-rich foods
- Continue with a variety of foods
- Grain products
- Meat and alternatives
- Vegetables and fruit
- Milk and dairy products
- Fats
- Food ideas for your baby
- From 1 year onward — sharing meals with the family
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Foods
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Health
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Common health problems
- A well-stocked medicine cabinet
- Newborn jaundice
- Thrush in the mouth
- Pimples, redness, and other skin problems
- Eye problems
- Allergies
- Common childhood infections
- Preventing infections
- Fever
- Fever and skin rashes (contagious diseases)
- Colds and flu
- Stuffed-up or runny nose
- Cough
- Sore throat
- Ear infection
- Diarrhea and vomiting (stomach flu or “gastro”)
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Keeping baby safe
- Travelling safe: Car seats
- Babyproofing the nursery
- Babyproofing the kitchen
- Choosing toys
- Preventing falls
- Preventing drowning
- Preventing suffocation and choking
- Preventing burns
- Preventing dog bites
- Living in a smoke-free environment
- Preventing poisoning
- Protecting your baby from the sun
- Protecting your baby from insect bites
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Common health problems
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Family
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Growing as a family
- Nobody’s perfect!
- Take time for yourself and your partner
- Grandparents
- New families, new situations
- Reaction of older children
- Twins
- Being a parent of a baby who is “different”
- Taking Baby for a walk
- Family activities
- Getting a babysitter
- Budgeting for Baby
- Choosing clothes
- Caring for clothes
- First shoes
- Help is available
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Growing as a family
- Useful information
