Sara Wickham describes the aqua Apgar score, which reflects the way that babies born in water may be more alert and less likely to cry.
What’s an Aqua Apgar?
Tag: neonatal care
Vitamin K and the Newborn – now available!
Vitamin K and the Newborn, a book explaning the evidence and the issues surrounding the administration of vitamin K to newborn babies
What do you think about Chlorhexidine?
Sara Wickham looks at the issues relating to chlorhexidine and GBS, considering some of the risks of this but also the context in which women turn to it.
Skin-to-skin care “should be aggressively promoted”…
Sara Wickham looks at research which further confirms the value of skin-to-skin care (SSC) and argues that this should be “aggressively promoted”.
Could maternal body slope be key to protecting babies?
Could maternal body slope be key to protecting babies? Sara Wickham shares research and thinking from biological nurturing expert Suzanne Colson.
New Cochrane review evidences that cuddles help reduce pain in neonates…
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…