The aim of this study was to evaluate the care of healthy full-term newborns and to identify variations in childbirth care and practices in the first hour of life. We used data from the Birth in Brazil survey. Unadjusted and adjusted odds ratio (OR) of hospital-delivered care for the mother and during childbirth were estimated for the following outcomes: upper airways and gastric aspiration, us...

A new mom lies in bed in the Postpartum unit as a Kaiser Permanente (KP) Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) wheels in a TV/video cart so mom can watch an educational video about circumcision before her baby’s procedure. Just when the CNA plugs in the video, another staff member enters to complete the baby’s hearing screening. The CNA abruptly turns off the video and wheels the cart out of the ro...

The fertility of American women over the last 200 years has two salient features, portrayed in Figure 1. First, it has declined drastically. The average white woman bore 7 children in 1800. By 1990 this had dropped to just 2. This decline in fertility ran unabated during the 140-year period between 1800 and 1940. Second, fertility showed a surprising recovery between the mid1940s and mid-1960s....

News I did it for the sake of my child after she tested [HIV] positive. I gave informed consent when she was six weeks old. She has had no complications on treatment and is doing fine. Zama, an HIV-positive mother from Soweto. More clinical trials involving children are needed to improve access to essential medicines. However, such trials pose ethical, scientific and practical challenges for re...

Key words: Shigella dysenteriae; multi-drug resistance; baby bottles. Copyright © 2015 de Moraes et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Dear Editor, Cronobacter spp. (formerly Enterobacter sakazakii as described) a...

OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were to provide an economic assessment of the incremental costs associated with obtaining the World Health Organization and United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund designation as a Infant-Friendly hospital. We hypothesized that baby-friendly hospitals will have higher costs than similar non-baby-friendly hospitals. METHODS Data from the 2...

BACKGROUND Baby EAR circuit is a new modified enclosed afferent reservoir anesthetic breathing system invented to use in pediatric patients. By following His Majesty the King of Thailand's self-sufficiency philosophy, the circuit is simplymade of low-cost and easy-to-find materials in the operating room. OBJECTIVE Investigate clinical use of the circuit and to find the optimal fresh gas flow ...

Baby massage is a that done closer to fine strokes or tactile stimulation on the surface of skin. Data from preliminary survey conducted in Tunjung Village, Udanawu District, Kabupaen, Blitar stated out 10 infants aged 0-6 months, 6 them (60%) did not experience weight gain. And 3 who gain said their children had never been baby massage. This type research pre-experimental study with two-group ...