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From Tiny Tot to Toddler

A practical guide for parents from pregnancy to age two

French Version Mieux vivre avec notre enfant

  • Pregnancy
    • Before you get pregnant
      • Women
      • Men
      • Fertilization
    • The fetus
      • Length of pregnancy
      • Development of the fetus
      • Fetus’s environment
    • Pregnancy day to day
      • Physical changes
      • Emotional changes
      • Sexuality
      • Personal care
      • Nutrition during pregnancy
      • Being active
      • Work
      • Tobacco, alcohol, and drugs
      • Household products
      • Pets
      • X-rays
      • Travel and trips
    • Health during pregnancy
      • Professionals and services
      • Health care
      • Prenatal care
      • Warning signs
      • High-risk pregnancies
      • Domestic violence during pregnancy
    • Preparing to breast-feed
      • Why breast-feed?
      • Preparing to breast-feed
      • Getting breast-feeding off  to a good start
      • Learning how to breast-feed
    • Preparing for the birth
      • Planning ahead
      • Hospital visit
      • What to bring to the hospital or birthing centre
      • Birth plan
      • Vaginal birth after caesarean
      • Stripping the membranes
      • Breech presentation
  • Delivery
    • The start of labour
      • Recognizing the start of labour
      • When should I go to the hospital or birthing centre?
      • Continuous support during childbirth
      • Understanding and managing pain
    • The stages of labour
      • First stage: Opening of the cervix
      • Second stage: Descent and birth of your baby
      • Third stage: Delivery of the placenta
      • Possible interventions during labour
      • Caesarean section
    • The first few days
      • Skin to skin
      • Your stay at the hospital or birthing centre
      • When the unexpected happens
      • Physical recovery of the mother
      • Get some rest
      • Baby blues
      • Depression
      • Sexual desire
      • Birth control
  • Baby
    • The newborn
      • Fetal position
      • Size and weight
      • Skin
      • Eyes
      • Head
      • Genitals
      • Swollen breasts
      • Spots
      • Sneezing
      • Hiccups
      • The need for warmth
      • Urine
      • Stools
    • Talking with your baby
      • Crying
      • The need to suck
      • Touch
      • Taste and smell
      • Hearing
      • Eyesight
    • Sleep
      • Sleeping safely
      • Sudden infant death syndrome
      • Preventing a flat head
      • Sleep in the first weeks
      • Sleep at around 4 months
      • Sleep between 1 and 2 years old
    • Your child’s development
      • Bonding
      • Temperament
      • To interact is to stimulate
      • Playing to learn
      • Toys
      • Questions about language
      • Setting limits
      • Stages of growth
      • Toilet training
      • Reading and writing
  • Feeding your child
    • Feeding your baby
      • An act of love
      • Hunger signs
      • Feeding schedule
      • Is your baby drinking enough milk?
      • Growth spurts
      • Hiccups
      • Burping
      • Gas
      • Regurgitation
      • Excessive crying (colic)
      • Allergies and intolerances
      • Social pressure
      • Baby’s changing needs
      • Feeding a premature baby
      • Vitamin D: Not your ordinary vitamin!
    • Milk
      • Which milk is best?
      • Mother’s milk
      • Producing breast milk
      • The composition of human milk
      • Handling expressed milk
      • Commercial infant formula (commercial milk)
      • Handling commercial infant formula
      • Other types of milk
    • Breast-feeding your baby
      • Learning the art of breast-feeding
      • Getting help
      • Your breasts during nursing
      • Breast-feeding, step by step
      • How often to nurse — and how long?
      • Breast-feeding phases
      • Is breast-feeding still possible?
      • Expressing milk
      • Combining breast and bottle
      • Weaning
      • Breast-feeding problems and solutions
    • Bottle-feeding your baby
      • Choosing baby bottles and nipples
      • How much milk?
      • Warming milk
      • Bottle-feeding your baby
      • Bottle-feeding problems and solutions
      • Cleaning bottles, nipples  and breast pumps
    • 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
    • Food-related problems
      • Food allergies
      • Lactose intolerance
      • Anemia
      • Poor appetite
      • Chubby babies
      • Stools and foods
      • Constipation
    • Water
      • When to give your baby water
      • Boil water for babies under 4 months
      • Choosing the right water
      • Municipal tap water
      • Private well water
      • Bottled water
      • Bulk water
      • Water coolers
      • Water treatment devices
      • Water problems
  • Health
    • A healthy baby
      • Holding your newborn
      • Caring for the umbilical cord
      • Bathing your baby
      • Cutting your baby’s nails
      • Choosing diapers
      • Medical checkups
      • Consulting health professionals
      • Your baby’s growth
      • First teeth
      • Vaccination
    • 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”)
    • 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
    • First aid
      • Bites
      • Scrapes and cuts
      • Small object in the nose
      • Nosebleeds
      • Oral and dental injuries
      • Bumps and blows to the head
      • Burns
      • Foreign object or chemical product in an eye
      • Insect bites
      • Choking
      • Poisoning and contact with hazardous products
  • Family
    • Being a father
      • A new role
      • Importance of the father / child relationship
      • Feeding baby together
    • Being a mother
      • A new experience as a woman
      • Have faith in yourself
      • Rest, rest, and more rest
      • Feeding Mom
    • 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
  • Useful information
    • Becoming a parent
      • Personalized itineraries
    • Resources for parents
      • Telephone help line resources
      • Associations, agencies and support groups

Pregnancy day to day

Photo: Patrick Vachon

  • Physical changes
  • Emotional changes
  • Sexuality
  • Personal care
  • Nutrition during pregnancy
  • Being active
  • Work
  • Tobacco, alcohol, and drugs
  • Household products
  • Pets
  • X-rays
  • Travel and trips

Guide

  • Pregnancy
    • Before you get pregnant
    • The fetus
    • Pregnancy day to day
      • Physical changes
      • Emotional changes
      • Sexuality
      • Personal care
      • Nutrition during pregnancy
      • Being active
      • Work
      • Tobacco, alcohol, and drugs
      • Household products
      • Pets
      • X-rays
      • Travel and trips
    • Health during pregnancy
    • Preparing to breast-feed
    • Preparing for the birth
  • Delivery
  • Baby
  • Feeding your child
  • Health
  • Family
  • Useful information
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