The birth of a baby is thrilling for parents. But the delivery room can be confusing with medical personnel and lots of monitors. A number of screenings for newborns are given right away, including ...

To encourage use of skin-to-skin contact with all healthy term infants during the first two hours of life and throughout their mothers' postpartum hospitalization, an easy, rapid newborn assessment ...

Vol. 43, No. 5/6, Organization and Stability of Newborn Behavior: A Commentary on the Brazelton Neonatal Behavior Assessment Scale (1978), pp. 14-28 (15 pages) Research on the Brazelton Neonatal ...

Some researchers have used a more liberal definition of the neonatal abstinence syndrome that includes exposure to nonopioid substances. This can be problematic because the assessment tools for the ...

Vol. 43, No. 5/6, Organization and Stability of Newborn Behavior: A Commentary on the Brazelton Neonatal Behavior Assessment Scale (1978), pp. 102-117 (16 pages) Research on the Brazelton Neonatal ...

This study investigates the effectiveness of the Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP) on neurobehavioral and electrophysiological functioning of preterm infants ...

Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) has become standard treatment for severe and moderate hypoxic–ischemic neonatal encephalopathy (HIE). Our group has developed an optically based, noninvasive concept of ...

Babies from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds could be at risk because NHS health assessments are based on white babies, a new report suggests. Newborn assessments used in the NHS today are ...

Is the infant breathing easily? Easy breathing means the respiratory rate is normal (40–60 breaths per minute), respirations are regular (not irregular, no apnea), and that there are no signs of ...