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Nicole Doré,
Danielle Le Hénaff

Nicole Doré and Danielle Le Hénaff, authors of the original text, wrote, updated, and developed Mieux vivre avec son enfant de la naissance à deux ans from 1977 to 2001.

Emilie Audy, Specialized Scientific Advisor, Editor-in-Chief

Marie-Ève Bergeron-Gaudin, Scientific Advisor

With the collaboration of
Danielle Landry
Élise Jalbert-Arsenault

Scientific Coordinator
Julie Laforest

Editorial Assistant
Nadine Maltais

Administrative support
Louise Allard

Coauthors
Nicole April, Chantale Audet, Emilie Audy, Christiane Auray-Blais, Lucie Baribeau, François Beaudoin, Céline Belhumeur, Amélie Blanchet‑Garneau, Julie Boissoneault, Luce Bordeleau, Marie‑Andrée Bossé, Nicole Boulianne, Amélie Bourret, Lise Brassard, Marie‑Ève Caty, Brigitte Chaput, Isabelle Charbonneau, Catherine Chouinard, Aurore Coté, Rosanne Couture, Gabrielle Désilets, Cécile Fortin, Denis Gauvin, Christian Godin, Édith Guilbert, Julie Guimond, Anne Harvey, Élise Jalbert‑Arsenault, Julie Laforest, Mélissa Lafrenière, Danielle Landry, Josée Laroche, Richard Larocque, Julie Lauzière, Johanne Laverdure, Michel Lavoie, Sylvain Leduc, Lyse Lefebvre, Céline Lemay, Anne Letarte, Patrick Levallois, Chantal Levesque, Sylvie Lévesque, Michel Lévy, Nadia Maranda, Andréane Melançon, Jean‑Claude Mercier, Caroline Morin, Christina Morin, Réal Morin, Laurie Plamondon, Julie Poissant, France Poliquin, Marie‑Claude Quintal, Faisca Richer, Hélène Rousseau, Marie‑Josée Santerre, Isabel Thibault, Lucie Thibodeau, Diane Tousignant, Lucie Tremblay, Roch Tremblay, Jean‑Jacques Turcotte, Mylène Turcotte, Pascale Turcotte, Hélène Valentini, Annie Vallée, Raymond Villeneuve.

Translation
Anglocom

Cover photos
Audrey Lebrasseur: La garçonne culottée photographie (C1),
Mireille Lewis (C2) and
Jérôme-Nicolas LeBel (C4).

Graphic design and computer graphics
Sophie Charest
Florencia Torres

Photo calibration
Atelier Photosynthèse

Printing
TC Imprimerie Transcontinental

Doré, Nicole; Le Hénaff, Danielle. From Tiny Tot to Toddler: A practical guide for parents from pregnancy to age two. Québec, Institut national de santé publique du Québec, 2024. 808 pages.

We would like to warmly thank all of the individuals and organizations who help make the guide possible; your individual contributions are vital to this collective work. Given the challenge of naming our many collaborators, we apologize if we forgot to mention your name, and we thank you all the more!

Individuals
Catherine Arpin, Sophie Arpin, Stephani Arulthas, Sarah Baribeau, France Bilodeau, Isabelle Bilodeau, Christina Blais, Liette Boucher, Isabelle Boucoiran, Annick Boulais, Mélanie Boulet, Yolaine Bovar, Annie Brodeur-Doucet, Nicholas Brousseau, Guillaume Burigusa, Catherine Caron, Stéphane Caron, Christiane Charette, Elisabeth Codsi, Mellissa Collin, Valérie Cortin, Manon Cyr, Pierre-Maurice Damas, Albert Daveluy, Isabelle Demers, Gaston De Serres, Maude Desjardins, Stéphanie Desmecht, Jean-Philippe Drolet, Nathalie Drouin, Andrée-Ann Dufour, Isabelle Dufresne, Gabrielle Durette, Audrée Elliott, Raphaèle Ferland-Verry, Dominique Fortier, Genevieve Fortin, Mylène Francoeur, Pamela Fredes Zuniga, Léa Gamache, Larissa Gaudreault, Anne Gosselin-Brisson, Catherine Gravel, Marie-Hélène Guay, Carole Gulglielmo, Barbara Harvey, Yun Jen, Yolaine Labbé, Caroline Laberge, Denis Laliberté, Amélie Landry, Caroline Landry, Jessica Lara-Carrasco, Geneviève Leclerc, Andréanne Lefort, Suzanne Lepage, Geneviève Mailhot, Marie Marquis, Linda Massé, Heather McMillan, Manon Méthot, Annie Montreuil, Tierry Morel-Laforce, Sébastien Morency, Anne-Sophie Morisset, Annie Ouellet, Julie Pelletier, Roxane Pelletier, Nathalie Péloquin, Lina Perron, Nancy Pilote, Éric Poulin, Ghislaine Reid, Kim Robbio, Elizabeth Robinson, Anne-Marie Rouillier, Maryse Saint-Gelais, Marie-Ève Saint-Laurent, Dina Salonina, Onil Samuel, Fanny Savage, Claudia Savard, Stéphanie Sicard-Thibodeau, Karah Stanworth-Belleville, Étienne Tardif, Stéphanie Thibault, Julie Tranchemontagne, Mylène Trottier, Gisèle Trudeau, Mathieu Valcke, Louise Valiquette, Isabelle Veilleux, Marie-Pier Veilleux, Gäelle Vekemans, Catherine Vézina, Nancy Wassef.

Groups
The regional coordinators in charge of distributing From Tiny Tot to Toddler at the Directions de santé publique of the CISSS and the CIUSSS: Thank you for your unconditional support; without you the guide would not make its way into the hands of Québec parents..

Organizations
Health Canada, Info-Santé, Lifesaving Society, Ministère du Travail, de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale, Société de l’assurance automobile du Québec.

Parents
Throughout the year, we get comments from parents who take time to write us or come talk to us at events we attend. We’d like to thank each and every one of them for helping us improve the guide, meet the needs of parents, and stay up to date with their concerns.

Parents-photographers
We also wish to thank all the other parent-photographers whose pictures appear in the guide. Thank you for letting us into your day-to-day life by sending us your colourful pictures. We greatly appreciate your generosity.

This publication is made possible through the financial contribution of the Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux.

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