Keeping a food record to assess a child's diet.
Keeping a food record for 7 days to assess diet; women's health and nutrition.
Diabetes in children and youth. Follow these steps to calculate the grams of carbohydrate in your recipe.
Information on nutrition after mouth or jaw surgery, when food must be blended or pureed.
Formerly titled "NICU Nutrition Services". The IWK Health Centre's NICU has a Breast Milk Preparation room and a system for tracking breast milk. Every mother and baby is given a unique barcode. This allows the mother’s expressed breast milk to be safely stored and fed to her baby or babies.
Calcium and vitamin D.
Tips on high calorie, high-protein smoothies and milkshakes.
How to increase calories for weight gain in infants.
How to increase calories for weight gain in toddlers.
Diabetes in children and youth. Put your carb counting knowledge into practice
Diabetes in children and youth. Carbohydrate (“carb”) counting is a way of meal planning to help manage your blood glucose.
Causes, what to do, when to contact doctor.
Constipation- why it happens, what is the treatment, when to seek medical attention.
Eating healthy is not easy, especially when life starts to bear down on you with all the commitments, obligations and sometimes challenging interactions with others that we see and spend time with each day. Here are a few suggested tips and resources for you to try and deal with this aspect of eating.
This handout was created to use with the booklet “Infant Formula: What you need to know” from NSHA https://www.nshealth.ca/sites/nshealth.ca/files/patientinformation/08103.pdf
Information on food groups, serving sizes, and nutritious foods.
Fibre - what it is, how to increase in the diet, why it is important.
A follow-up letter to patients in the IWK's Gestational Diabetes Program. For more information on managing your gestational diabetes, visit the IWK Health Centre web page www.iwk.nshealth.ca/gdm.
This handout was created to use with the booklet “Infant Formula: What you need to know” from NSHA https://www.nshealth.ca/sites/nshealth.ca/files/patientinformation/08103.pdf
Diabetes in children and youth. Answers to common questions asked by children/youth/families with diabetes.