Tag: neonatal care

What’s an Aqua APGAR?

“What’s an Aqua APGAR?” After I wrote a blog post sharing the results of some new studies highlighting the benefits of water in labour, a few people contacted us to ask for more information on the Aqua APGAR, which was…

I am so excited to announce that the second edition of Vitamin K and the Newborn, a book written to help parents and professionals understand the evidence and the issues surrounding the administration of vitamin K to newborn babies, is…

“The baby comes from the womb relatively germ-free, and yet within one hour, scientists say the human baby has been colonized with millions of microbes. The question is, whose microbes? One person should be doing this “seeding”, and it is…

A research study carried out in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam has confirmed earlier findings which showed that low birthweight (LBW) infants are better off when skin-to-skin with their mother than when placed in an incubator. In this (freely available)…

Researching and writing a book is always a sure-fire means of generating a list of interesting things that one might want to look into one day, and my recent Group B Strep project didn’t let me down in this regard! …

More data continues to confirm the value of skin-to-skin care (SSC) as the authors of a freely available study in the May 2014 Journal of Perinatology concluded that “early SSC needs to be aggressively promoted in term and late-preterm newborns…

I caught up briefly with Suzanne Colson at the Midwifery Today conference last month, and was really interested to hear about her take on a possible explanation for the possible link between maternal breastfeeding position and sudden unexpected postnatal collapse…

I have the very greatest respect for my esteemed colleagues who have authored the newest birth-related Cochrane review which shows that skin-to-skin care (the technical term for cuddling) can help reduce procedural pain in neonates (Johnston et al 2014). It’s…