Documents
Parent letter to loved ones
Certificate for loved ones
Preemie Care Primer Series - Videos
NICU 101
The first slideshow of the Preemie Care Primer Series for parents with premature babies. NICU 101 focuses on care of the parent and the baby.
Feeding and Common Challenges 101
Second presentation in a three-part introductory series for parents of premature babies, presented by co-authors of Preemie Care: A guide to navigating the first year with your premature baby.
Tummy Troubles 101
Part three of the Preemie Care Primer Series for parents with premature babies. This presentation focuses on tummy troubles: gassiness, stooling, spitting up, and reflux.
Links
Vaccinations
USA: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/index.html
Canada: https://www.healthycanadians.gc.ca/apps/vaccination-schedule/index-eng.php
Europe: https://vaccine-schedule.ecdc.europa.eu/
World Health Organization: http://apps.who.int/immunization_monitoring/globalsummary/schedules?sc%5Bc%5D%5B%5D=CAN&sc%5Bd%5D=&sc%5BOK%5D=OK
Respiratory Syncytial Virus: https://rsvshield.ca/about.html
Pain
Video’s to minimize infant pain during vaccinations, newborn screening and other painful procedures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlZczt8t4Ac8cW3pbuRKJAEs3SoC5y8MB
YouTube link to breastfeeding for infant vaccination pain video: https://youtu.be/FrKmAth4ZGc
Canadian video from IWK Hospital on “The power of a parent’s touch”: https://youtu.be/3nqN9c3FWn8
Swaddling techniques
Ways to swaddle your baby: http://www.7swaddles.com/
Massage to help digestion: https://www.babycentre.co.uk/v25011607/baby-massage-helping-digestion-video
Massage videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbCv6BBTV5c
Massage
Click on “videos/breastfeeding” for excellent videos on latch, positioning, milk supply in multiple languages: http://globalhealthmedia.org
Produced by Stanford University - Click on “breastfeeding” for videos for hand expression and “hands on pumping” technique: http://newborns.stanford.edu
Podcast by book author Karen Lasby on breastfeeding and the premature baby: http://www.allaboutbreastfeeding.biz/karen_lasby/
Breastfeeding
Enter baby’s due date and receive weekly suggestions: https://pathways.org/baby-milestones-calendar/
Track your baby’s development: https://www.webmd.com/parenting/baby/features/stages-of-development#1
The social and emotional development information is valuable: https://www.zerotothree.org/early-development