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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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High blood pressure that a woman already has when she becomes pregnant, or that is found in the first 20 weeks. It is a form of high blood pressure, but decisions in pregnancy differ: some blood...

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Blood pressure that stays higher than it should over time.

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High blood pressure that is present before pregnancy or starts during it. NICE groups these disorders in three ways: high blood pressure that was there before pregnancy or appeared in the first 20...

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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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Heavy bleeding after a baby is born. It is one of the most common complications of childbirth. It is also a leading cause of death for mothers worldwide, and most of those deaths happen in low- and...

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A condition of pregnancy in which blood pressure rises after 20 weeks and, at the same time, there are signs that other parts of the body are affected. These can include protein in the urine, or...

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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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Steroid medicines, dexamethasone or betamethasone, given by injection to a pregnant woman who is likely to give birth early. The medicine reaches the baby and helps the lungs mature, which can...

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Using blood pressure medicines in pregnancy when blood pressure is raised but not yet severe, instead of waiting until it becomes severe. This is a treatment strategy, not one drug. Different sources...

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Measuring your own blood pressure with a device, at home or somewhere else outside the clinic.

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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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A small daily dose of aspirin taken during pregnancy by women at higher risk of pre-eclampsia, to help prevent it. In England, NICE tells clinicians to advise 75 mg to 150 mg a day, from 12 weeks of...

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Measuring the blood a woman loses after birth with a tool, instead of judging it by eye. WHO recommends doing this for every woman giving birth, and uses measured amounts in its criteria for deciding...

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A blood test for placental growth factor (PlGF), alone or as a ratio with a second protein, used together with a clinician's usual assessment when pre-eclampsia is suspected before 37 weeks...

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A package for hospitals. Staff measure blood loss at vaginal births with a calibrated drape, and when heavy bleeding is detected they start a standard set of treatments straight away. The set covers...

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A medicine given into a vein, on top of usual care, to women who are bleeding heavily after birth. It works by slowing the breakdown of blood clots. In the WOMAN trial it lowered deaths from bleeding...

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A pair of blood tests from Roche Diagnostics, run in a laboratory, whose results are combined into the sFlt-1/PlGF ratio. In the United States the FDA cleared it in February 2025 as an aid in judging...

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A blood pressure device with a cuff for the upper arm that works out the reading itself from signals in the cuff.

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A drape used at vaginal birth that collects the blood and carries volume markings, so the amount lost can be measured instead of guessed by eye.

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Two blood tests run on the same sample in a laboratory machine, one for sFlt-1 and one for placental growth factor (PlGF), with the result reported as the ratio of the two. Different companies build...

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