# WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience (2022)

Guideline · id `maternal:guideline-who-2022-postnatal-care` · Maternal & Newborn Atlas · release `fc5a600ec7387e71` (public)

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## In plain language

The 2022 WHO guideline on routine care for mothers and babies in the weeks after birth, in any country and any setting. It brings together 63 recommendations on care of the mother, care of the newborn, and health systems and health promotion, including a schedule of at least four contacts in the first six weeks.

## Technical summary

Edition 2022 (ISBN 978-92-4-004598-9; licence CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO). The who.int page date is 30 March 2022, which the atlas uses for WHO sources; the WHO IRIS record 10665/352658 lists an issue date of 2022-03-29. The PDF says it is an update of a document published in 2014. Of its 63 recommendations, 31 are newly developed and 32 are integrated from existing WHO guidelines. This atlas records Recommendations 1, 25, 44, 45, 46 and 48 as claims on the postnatal care page, and two remarks on danger signs on the warning signs page. A corrigendum dated 26 May 2022 on the WHO page sits beside the separate web supplement on the evidence base, which was not read. Whether a later edition replaces this guideline was not checked.

## Connected pages

- Issuer and publisher (copyright line: World Health Organization 2022): World Health Organization (`maternal:who`)

## Provenance

Content hash: 077ffb9fdfe1acbbc1687fcad607874ed7c863edb24735f8201e3b3d24065c62
Last substantive edit: 2026-10-15
Evidence last checked: 2026-10-15