Inside the NICU

Updates from Sunnybrook’s NICU families and staff.

Evidence-Based Living

Next week, a team from our unit is going to the Neonatal Developmental and Behavioural Care conference in New Orleans, which is incredibly exciting...

Happy Halloween!

So we’ve been running around, eating candy and taking pictures all day, and as a result can’t really put words together. But we do have...

Getting ready for Halloween!

Halloween is one of our favourite holidays (as we made pretty clear last year). This year we got off to an early start with two costume-making days...

I was a “1 in 3”

Postpartum depression and perinatal mood disorders affect up to 1/3 of mothers, and rates can be even higher for mothers whose babies have spent time...

Amy Keir: 10 questions

We are so lucky to have Amy Keir working with us in our NICU as a Neonatal Fellow. She recently published an amazing article called “Please...

The Butterfly Garden

One of our NICU nurses had a lovely idea to create a butterfly garden at Sunnybrook. We wanted to honour babies who left too soon, to celebrate their...

Avery’s Act of Kindness

"Our family spent 11 unforgettable days in the NICU at Sunnybrook in January when our daughter Avery was born 12 weeks premature."

Ambiguous loss

A guest post by Brenda Miller, the Parent Coordinator at Brandon NICU in Michigan

Milestones

This post was originally published on Madeleine & Reid’s blog. Thanks so much to mom Alana for sharing it with us! One aspect of parenting...