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After your baby is born, you will stay on the Birth Unit for a few hours before moving to the Family Newborn Care Unit. In some cases, babies need to be admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for specialized care. Depending on who your care provider was during pregnancy...

IWK Health promotes, protects, and supports breastfeeding. The nurses that work on the Family Newborn Care Unit can assist you with breastfeeding while you are in the hospital. Why breastfeed? Parent’s own milk is the best nutrition and provides specific immune protection for the baby. Breast milk contains a wide...

Donor Milk There are many benefits to breastfeeding, however, in some special situations, there may be unique challenges to breastfeeding your baby. The safest alternative to your own breastmilk is pasteurized donor milk from a regulated human milk bank. If you choose to use breast milk from another source you...

The Baby Friendly Initiative is a global program of UNICEF and the World Health Organization which works with health services to improve practice so that parents are enabled and supported to make informed choices about how they feed and care for their babies. IWK Health holds BFI designation as the...

The World Health Organization ( WHO) recommends exclusive breastfeeding from birth to six months of age and continued breastfeeding, with appropriate complementary foods, for up to two years or beyond. Breastfeeding can provide all of an infant's energy needs up to six months of age; no other foods or liquid...

Feeding your infant with formula may be required for a medical reason or it could be an informed decision you have made. It is important for you to know there are resources available that describe safe preparation and feeding: How to Feed your Baby with Infant Formula