All articles tagged with #infant care
Originally Published 2 years ago — by WION
Kangaroo Care, also known as skin-to-skin care, is an effective method for providing care to pre-term babies. It regulates heart rate, reduces discomfort during procedures, improves breathing, establishes a bond, and helps establish a nursing relationship and promote healthy weight gain in underweight premature infants.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by The Jerusalem Post
Kissing a newborn baby on the lips can cause the baby to die due to neonatal herpes, warns Nikki Jurcutz, an expert from infant care company Tiny Hearts Education. Herpes can cause shortness of breath, severe breathing problems, and even death in infants whose immune systems are not fully developed. Jurcutz suggests several precautions to minimize the risk of babies getting herpes, including not kissing the baby's face or hands, wearing a face mask to cover cold sores, and using hand sanitizer before holding the baby.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by ABC News
Kansas has passed a bill that could penalize doctors for not providing enough care to infants delivered alive during certain kinds of abortion procedures. The bill applies not only to “botched” or “unsuccessful” abortions but also when doctors induce labor to deliver a fetus that is expected to die within minutes or even seconds outside the womb. The legislation faces an uncertain fate in a legal and political climate that's made Kansas an outlier on abortion policy among states with GOP-led legislatures. The bill could still be challenged in court and not enforced.