Newborn

The care of a baby born early or small, from birth through the first two years. It includes skin-to-skin care with a parent, feeding with the mother's own milk, breathing support when it is needed...

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Keeping a newborn warm and preventing a low body temperature.

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A baby who is born small. The exact weight threshold depends on the source and is not recorded here yet.

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Birth before 37 completed weeks of pregnancy. The term covers two things: the baby who is born early, and the pregnancy that is likely to end early. WHO writes its advice on steroid injections before...

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Starting skin-to-skin care within hours of birth, even before a small baby is fully stable, with the mother staying in the newborn unit.

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Holding the baby skin-to-skin on the mother's chest for long periods, together with breastfeeding.

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Whether a baby who was born alive died in the first 28 days of life.

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A large trial in the United States that asked whether women with mildly raised blood pressure before or early in pregnancy do better if they take blood pressure medicine to keep their pressure under...

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A trial in 29 hospitals in Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan. Pregnant women who were likely to give birth early received either a dexamethasone steroid injection or a dummy injection...

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A trial in five hospitals in Africa and India that tested starting skin-to-skin care right after birth for small babies, compared with starting it after they stabilized.

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A suggested order for reading this atlas, from before pregnancy through birth to a baby’s first months. Each step points to one page and says in plain words what that page covers. It is a reading...

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An untested question. Starting skin-to-skin care right after birth lowered deaths of small babies in the WHO iKMC trial, which ran in five hospitals in Africa and India. Would it also help small...

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