The following websites may be of interest.
- Premature Babies Resource Centre, Sick Kids Hospital, Toronto:
www.aboutkidshealth.ca/en/resourcecentres/prematurebabies
- Canadian Premature Babies Foundation:
http://www.sosprema.com/sos-premadisplay.php?f=10
Decoding my baby’s behaviour
- March of Dimes, Understanding Your Premature Baby. This site gives parents’ stories as well as information on topics such as infant cues, body & movement, sleep & awake:
http://www.marchofdimes.com/modpreemie/preemie.html
- Getting to Know Your Baby by K. VandenBerg, J.V. Browne, L. Perez. This program helps parents understanding how babies communicate and provides strategies on how to support their development:
http://specialstart.ucsf.edu/sstp/download/getting_to_know.pdf
- Getting to know… Your Baby is a website and app (different from above) developed by Warwick Medical School (United Kingdom). The two following links inform on baby states and sleeping and soothing:
http://www.your-baby.org.uk/baby-states
http://www.your-baby.org.uk/sleeping-and-soothing
How to best position the baby
Plagiocephaly:
http://www.caringforkids.cps.ca/handouts/preventing_flat_heads
Safe Sleep for Your Baby:
http://www.caringforkids.cps.ca/handouts/safe_sleep_for_babies
Car seat:
http://www.caringforkids.cps.ca/handouts/car_seat_safety
Feeding
Feeding:
http://www.caringforkids.cps.ca/handouts/feeding_your_baby_in_the_first_year
Growth:
http://www.caringforkids.cps.ca/handouts/is_my_child_growing_well
Breastfeeding:
http://www.nourri-source.org//
http://www.jgh.ca/en/Breastfeeding
www.child-encyclopedia.com/breastfeeding/resources
Iron requirements:
http://www.caringforkids.cps.ca/handouts/iron_needs_of_babies_and_children
Playing and interacting
Read, speak, sing to your baby: How parents can promote literacy from birth
www.caringforkids.cps.ca/handouts/read_speak_sing_to_your_baby
Playtime with your baby: Learning and growing in the first year
www.caringforkids.cps.ca/handouts/playtime_with_your_baby
Your busy toddler: Games, toys and play in the second year of life
www.caringforkids.cps.ca/handouts/your_busy_toddler
Attachment:
- www.caringforkids.cps.ca/handouts/attachment
- www.child-encyclopedia.com/attachment
- www.beststart.org/resources/other_languages/parent_attachment/parent_attachment_eng_Oct2012.pdf
Developmental in the first 2 years and beyond
Learning to play and playing to learn: what families can do
www.beststart.org/resources/hlthy_chld_dev/school_readiness_ENG_Nov2013_blur.pdf
http://www.naitreetgrandir.net/fr/Etape/0_12_mois/Developpement/nouveau_ne/
http://www.caringforkids.cps.ca/handouts/your_childs_development
http://www.chu-sainte-justine.org/documents/CRME/photo/CRME_grandir_F-3.swf
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/milestones/index.html
http://www.babycenter.com/303_preemie-development_10014176.bc
Further reading for parents
- Dana Wechsler Linden, Emma Trenti Paroli, Mia Wechsler Doron. Preemies: The Essential Guide for Parents of Premature Babies, Second Edition (2010)
- Harvey Karp. The Happiest Baby on the Block (2003)
- T.Berry Brazelton and Joshua D. Sparrow. Touchpoints – Birth to Three (2006)
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