Newborn Baby Care After Birth Video. Researchers now say this might kill bacteria. Newborn care immediately after birth The tests care and medications newborns receive in the first minutes of life.
Keep the stump dry. Its where your newborn is stabilized and warmed and where he undergoes a thorough medical examination -- by both a nursery nurse and a pediatrician. Many of these deaths occurred in babies born too early and too small babies with infections or babies asphyxiated around the time of delivery.
Some women who give birth in the facility will spend time there following childbirth.
Parents were once instructed to swab the stump with rubbing alcohol after every diaper change. Frequent meals help newborns regain weight that they may have lost after birth. WHO recommends that a women not be discharged before 24 hours after birth. Your babys umbilical cord stump dries out and eventually falls off usually within one to three weeks after birth.