BACKGROUND Neonatal in-hospital falls occur relatively frequently, although they are likely underreported. Significant intracranial head trauma from a fall or birth injury is not common in the immediate newborn period. Furthermore, intracranial bleeding requiring surgical intervention is exceedingly rare. We present an unusual case of an in-hospital fall in the delivery room requiring neurosurg...

GENERAL MANAGEMENT The Special Care Baby Unit contains approximately 40 cots and incubators. It has its own senior nursing staff, and consultant paediatric medical staff who also hold appointments at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children. Babies admitted to the nursery are nursed either in cots or in incubators with high humidity at a temperature of 85-95°F. depending on their weight and...

OBJECTIVE To investigate how the 4thStep of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative was applied, assess the prevalence of breastfeeding (BF) within the first hour after birth and analyze factors associated with non-BF in this period of life. METHODS Cross-sectional study conducted in a high-risk maternity-hospital in Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil, with interview to a sample of 403 rooming-in moth...

The rooming-in system is the practice of placing the baby in the same hospital room as the mother, where care is provided by a single therapeutic team. In Poland, the organization of work in the rooming-in system is of twofold character. These are either separate wards taking care of the mother and her baby, functioning as one maternity ward, or it consists of two organizational units – obstetr...

Nine days old male was admitted to the intensive care unit because of the jaundice and suspicious cardiac disease. He was delivered at 3gf5 weeks of gestation without peripartum events. His birth weight was 3.4kg. He was the second baby with healthy brother. The family history was not contributory. He was initially transferred to the other hospital because of the jaundice at 2 days of age. Card...

The association between epidermolysis bullosa and congenital pyloric atresia is rare, but is a known distinct clinical entity with autosomal recessive inheritance. We report on a case of a baby girl born by cesarean section at 37 weeks’ gestation to a G7 P7 mother and weighed 2.84 kg. At birth, there was denuded skin over the right leg from the knee joint up to the middle of the right foot. Abd...