Care of the newborn in the first days
The routine care a baby gets after birth and in the first days: keeping warm, feeding, skin-to-skin contact, screening tests and a vitamin K shot. This page links to the page about each one.
Also called Newborn care · Routine newborn care
- Care topic
- In this atlas
Overview
Technical summary
Hub for the term-newborn pages in this atlas: thermal care, skin-to-skin care, resuscitation, jaundice, screening, vitamin K, low blood sugar and cooling for brain injury after birth. The MedlinePlus Infant and Newborn Care topic, used as the plain-language entry point, says newborns have many needs, such as frequent feedings and diaper changes, and that babies can have health issues that differ from those of older children and adults. It sets out no schedule of checks. This page makes no clinical claim.
Scope
Routine care of a term newborn at birth and in the first days: warmth, feeding, checks, screening and prevention of common problems
- Life stages
- newborn
- Care setting
- Not reported
Claims and evidence
No claims are published for this care topic yet.
Record details
- Record id
maternal:essential-newborn-care- Content hash
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