# Newborn support: warmth, breathing, feeding

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Browse, care area: Breastfeeding and lactation; Newborn care; Preterm and sick newborns; The baby's first year  

## In plain language

Pages about helping a newborn stay warm, breathe and feed, from help with the first breaths to breastfeeding.

## Technical summary

Navigation grouping for newborn thermal care, resuscitation, respiratory support and feeding, filed here with part\_of. It is a way to browse. It makes no statement about whether anything in it works.

## Connected pages

- Includes: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia remains common among extremely preterm survivors (`maternal:bottleneck-bpd-prevention`)
- Includes: Breastfeeding (`maternal:breastfeeding`)
- Includes: Care of the newborn in the first days (`maternal:essential-newborn-care`)
- Includes: Newborn thermal care (`maternal:newborn-thermal-care`)
- Includes: Care of the preterm or low-birth-weight infant (`maternal:preterm-lbw-care`)
- Includes: Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (chronic lung disease of prematurity) (`maternal:bronchopulmonary-dysplasia`)
- Includes: Brain injury from lack of oxygen around birth (HIE) (`maternal:hypoxic-ischaemic-encephalopathy`)
- Includes: Necrotising enterocolitis (`maternal:necrotising-enterocolitis`)
- Includes: Low blood sugar in newborns (neonatal hypoglycaemia) (`maternal:neonatal-hypoglycaemia`)
- Includes: Respiratory distress syndrome in preterm babies (`maternal:neonatal-respiratory-distress-syndrome`)
- Includes: Artificial placenta or womb for extremely preterm babies (`maternal:idea-artificial-placenta`)
- Includes: Immediate KMC in high-resource neonatal intensive care units (`maternal:idea-immediate-kmc-high-resource-nicu`)
- Includes: Breastfeeding support and counselling (`maternal:breastfeeding-support`)
- Includes: Donor human milk for very low birth weight infants (`maternal:donor-human-milk`)
- Includes: Immediate kangaroo mother care (`maternal:immediate-kmc`)
- Includes: Kangaroo mother care (KMC) (`maternal:kangaroo-mother-care`)
- Includes: Newborn resuscitation (help with breathing at birth) (`maternal:neonatal-resuscitation`)
- Includes: Dextrose gel for newborn low blood sugar (`maternal:oral-dextrose-gel`)
- Includes: Phototherapy for newborn jaundice (`maternal:phototherapy`)
- Includes: Cooling treatment (therapeutic hypothermia) for HIE (`maternal:therapeutic-hypothermia`)
- Includes: Fisher and Paykel Bubble CPAP System (`maternal:fisher-paykel-bubble-cpap`)
- Includes: SNOO Smart Sleeper (infant bassinet with supine-position system) (`maternal:snoo-smart-sleeper`)
- Includes: Breast pumps (`maternal:breast-pump`)
- Includes: Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for newborns (`maternal:nasal-cpap`)

## Provenance

Content hash: ba148b699fdaf985c55fd867f7382d09ce6be2c2c926795836e0268e298e03e2
Last substantive edit: 2026-10-14
Evidence last checked: Not recorded