Find information on babies under 3 years old: breastfeeding, diet, development, health, games, etc. Each section has sub-sections to facilitate your search. If you do not find what you are looking for, use the search engine!
Cries
Parents are often given conflicting advice about whether to apply a “scheduled” approach to baby care, or follow their infants’ demands. A recent study looked at the impact of different parenting approaches on infant crying and sleeping.
Breastfeeding
A growing proportion of mothers breastfeed their babies, and the virtues of breastfeeding are now well known. However, we rarely speak of its impact on sexuality.
Childcare
You will soon be dropping your baby off at daycare for the first time and are reluctant to leave your little one in a stranger’s hands? Here are a few tips for you.
Contagious Diseases
The name "5th disease" derives from its historical classification as the fifth of the classical childhood skin rashes, after measles, scarlet fever, rubella and Duke's disease.
Development
Cries and shrieks are the first signs that your baby wants to communicate. Newborns quickly understand that the sounds they make will cause a reaction from the people around them.
Safety
Did you know that you should never rub a frostbite, nor put it in snow or water (cold or hot)? When it's as cold as it’s been recently, we all need advice!
Newborn
When your baby is born, you have to fill out many documents to make your child’s entry into the world official. Thankfully, hospitals and birthing homes will give you the essential papers!
Psychology
Research now shows that mental health issues often have their roots in early childhood. Let’s take a look.
Contagious Diseases
In Canada, the flu season normally extends from November to April, and can affect 10 to 25% of the population every year.
Contagious Diseases
Whooping cough is the most frequently reported vaccine-preventable disease in Canada.
Contagious Diseases
Scarlet fever is different from other early childhood diseases because it is not caused by a virus, but rather by a bacteria, the group A streptococcus.
Contagious Diseases
Roseola, also known as « the sixth disease » is relatively harmless. 90% of adults have already had Roseola.
We rediscover Christmas through the eyes of children : meeting Santa Claus, writing him a letter, seeing all the colorful parades, the movies we love to watch in anticipation of the big night…
