Quick Reference

Parenting in the NICU: How to be involved as a member of your baby's care team
A practical guide on how you can partner with your baby's healthcare team in the NICU.

Family Integrated Bedside Rounds in NICU (overview)
Bedside rounds is when parents and members of your baby’s healthcare team get together to discuss your baby’s journey and plan care. Parents are welcome at rounds.

Parents are welcome at rounds. Watch this video and download the overview to help you know what to expect.

Learn More

• Healthy Parents, Healthy Children (HPHC)
  A guide to pregnancy and parenting through the first five years.
  • If Your Baby is Born Preterm
• Canadian Premature Babies Foundation
  Education, support and advocacy for premature babies and their families.

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Quick links to NICU information & resources:

• Blood transfusions for newborns
• Breathing support in the NICU
• Communicating with NICU staff
• Discharge from the NICU
• Equipment in the NICU
• Infant care in the NICU
• Kangaroo care
• Oral feeding your preterm newborn or infant with feeding challenges
• Premature birth
• Staff in the NICU
• Tests in the NICU
• The NICU environment
• Umbilical venous catheters in newborns
• What to expect when you have an extremely premature infant