To your point about those early days, weeks and months of a child's life, we know how critical maternal health is pre-pregnancy, as well as health and well-being throughout pregnancy and in those early days, weeks and months after birth. We know it's a critical time period, where early intervention matters in terms of the mental health of the family—mother, father and others who might be part of that family—as well as the critical care delivered within the hospital institutions.
Across this country, right now, we're seeing increased pressures and demands on neonatal intensive care units unlike anything we've ever seen before. Hospitals are now preparing different strategies to cope with that demand and to get a sense, from a health human resource perspective, of how we are training those pediatricians, specialists, nurses, etc. caring for children.
What I'm trying to say is that we need to think about the full continuum of the child's life, which begins before conception. We need to think about the research strategies and the gaps in our knowledge. We need to think about the data strategies, in terms of what we understand about the health and well-being of those children at that age, set clear targets and parameters for what that ought to look like, and look at international comparisons, as well.