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Healthy Spaces
Designed for parents and caregivers of young children. Gives recommendations for creating healthier environments for children. Gives detailed information on such things as which household liquids are toxic to children.
Homemade Baby Food Recipes
Offers a complete range of homemade, baby-food recipes, from first foods to full meals. These recipes are simple and rewarding to make.

Booster seats
Are designed to help position the vehicle seat belt properly across the child's chest and upper thighs where their body is the strongest.
Child Car Seat Safety
Information on selection and installation of the right child car seat for the appropriate age and weight. Covers children from toddlers to youths.
Child Passenger Safety
Ontario, Ministry of Transportation answers frequently asked questions about safety, air bags, bicycles, helmets, seat belts, and car seats.

Safety in the Car Main Menu (Government of Canada) Offers diagrams and details for proper seat arrangement for infants to young children (age 8).

Halton Child Care Registry -
You and your child can visit the Halton Ontario Early Years Centres for a range of free services:
• Early learning and literacy programs for parents and their children;
• Parenting programs that support parents and care givers of young children in all aspects of early child development;
• Information and training for new parents about pregnancy and parenting

Halton Regional Child Care Centres
Provides quality licensed child care services in accordance with the Day Nurseries Act and Regulations, corporate, departmental and program policies.
Halton Community Services Database -

Prenatal Classes in Hamilton
Offers prenatal classes for couples, single moms, and teens. All classes are taught by a Public Health Nurse in partnership with St. Joseph's Hospital and McMaster University Medical Centre.
Healthiest Babies Possible in Halton
It's a prenatal and parent education program led by Public Health Nurses from the Halton Region Health Department.
Pregnancy - Prenatal Classes in Peel
Offers a variety of free prenatal classes to meet the needs of the residents of Peel. All of these classes are facilitated by a Public Health Nurse. All locations offer free parking.
Pregnancy & Parenting: For Today's Mom
Offers information on from trying to conceive through your child's teen years. Ckeck out The Baby Name Wizard .

Fetal Development
Shows and explains the development of the fetus from Week One to Week Fourteen.
First Five Years
Aims to strengthen the parenting knowledge, skills and confidence of all those who touch the lives of children from birth to age five.

Office of the Registrar General
Is responsible for issuing birth certificates for people born in Ontario. A certificate is the "foundation identity document" required to apply for other forms of identification, such as social insurance numbers or health cards.

Baby Center Tools and Calculators
Calculators for ovulation, due date, pregnancy heart rate, weight gain, baby weight, growth percentile, baby book, baby names, child's speech and hearing skills, etc.