Newborn

baby sense, one of them is our touch. By you touching your newborn baby it's a vital role that helps you and your baby have that mother and son or mother and daughter bond. Touching your baby also helps you to communicate by he or she letting you know their wants and needs. Also by interacting with people and being able to explore it's surrounding. This sense of touch beings to happen as your early 7 to 8 weeks of pregnancy(Berger). Your newborn is born with a high sensitive skin to touch like…

Caring for Pregnant Women and Newborns the Criminal Justice Professional care throughout any women’s pregnancy is imperative. Without adequate care, a women and her unborn child can experience serious health related consequences including death. Ethical dilemmas arise from situations such as inadequate funding or resources for the care of newborns and pregnant women in the criminal justice system. Federal and state laws also require the confinement of incarcerated pregnant and laboring women. In…

The first bath of the newborn and preterm infants is a topic of several research studies. The response of the infant to tub bathing and sponge bathing is very important to ensure that the infant receives cleansing in such a manner that is the most beneficial to their health and sense of wellbeing as well as that of their mothers. The accepted procedure for the first tub bath for a newborn infant is to unwrap and place them in a tub of warm water up to the shoulders while their head and upper…

placement, altering flow rate, behavioral interventions, maneuvers, sensory stimulation, tube feeding, and oral-motor treatments (Arvedson, 1998). However, for newborns, especially those in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), many of these strategies are inapplicable. The most appropriate and utilized management techniques for newborns with dysphagia are changing positioning and posture, pacing and cue-based strategies, altering the rate of flow, making equipment changes, adjusting feeding…

the Beng believe that the wru will be reborn into a newborn instead of vanishing for eternity. These supernatural beliefs, according to the Beng people, reflect the different kind of ways they care for their infants. Whether it symbolizes the beginning of the life for the newborn, the sickness the infant may face, or the death of that infant, the supernatural is always presented in the Beng culture. The beginning of life for a Beng newborn involves many supernatural beliefs because they are…

infant. Imagine you are a mother of a newborn (or maybe you are) and you have planned to breastfeed. Once you begin to breastfeed, you learn that your child will not latch and you cannot produce enough milk, therefore you are forced to feed your newborn with formula. Knowing why a person is using or chooses to use formula to feed is important in preventing an incorrect judgement. There are several acceptable ways to provide the needed nutrients to a newborn; common feeding options include…

Newborns suffering from withdrawal are often fussy and hard to calm down. If withdrawals are severe, medications such as: morphine, phenobarbital, or methadone can be used to wean the newborn. These babies need to stay in the hospital for weeks or months after birth. The reason for treatment is to give the infant a drug similar to the one the mother used during pregnancy and then slowly decrease the dose over time to help the baby wean off. Nurses can also calm the newborn down by gently…

Unmeet Need Here at Sacred Heart Hospital there is a dire need for education for the parents of premature and at risk newborns. Premature and at risk newborns must be handled very delicately because they are particularly fragile at this point of their lives. In order for a parent or family member to interact with the newborn they must be taught how because of their fragile state. The nurses are busy making sure the baby receives all the care it need in order to survive, therefore they do not…

terminating the pregnancy? Or shall she continue with the pregnancy and prepare for the birth of a child, whose prognosis is poor? The expectation is that Mariana, her family, and the providers shall come to an agreement about delivery and care of the newborn, while staying consistent with the Catholic Institution’s fundamentals. Dr. Wilson has noted fetal abnormalities via routine ultrasounds. He has…

“pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is, existing whenever the experiencing person says it does.” (p.472). However, what if the person experiencing the pain is an infant? A newborn endures as many as twenty-one painful procedures their first day in the hospital (Pasek & Huber, 2012, p.62). To protect newborn babies from pointless suffering, it is imperative that the nurse advocates for pain relief. Oral sucrose is a non-pharmacological intervention that…