Low birthweight and preterm infants spend many weeks in
special care baby nurseries and many mothers, even those most motivated to breastfeed, find it difficult to keep up their milk supply.
Not exact matches
Special care nurseries can treat
babies with some health problems of prematurity, such as jaundice and trouble eating or staying warm.
A NICU, sometimes called a
special care nursery,
cares for
babies who are born early, who have problems during delivery, or who develop problems and require a higher level of
care.
Since feeding is one of the tasks which often determines when a
baby can be sent home from a
special care nursery, you may wish to learn more about feeding premature
babies.
Things like if you want your partner to cut the umbilical cord or if you want to delay cord clamping, if you plan on doing anything with your
baby's cord blood, if you want to hold the
baby immediately after they are born or after they are cleaned up, if you want their little footprints in a
special book, if you want skin - to - skin with you or your partner, if you want to try and breastfeed immediately after delivery or have a lactation consultant come (helpful especially for first - time moms), if you'd like your
baby to stay in your room as long as possible or get taken to the
nursery (if your hospital has one) to be evaluated, and if you want your partner to go with your
baby if they need any
special care outside of the delivery room.
Missing the NICU: After being in the neonatal intensive
care unit (NICU) or
special care nursery for weeks or months, your
baby can get used to alarms ringing and a constant source of light throughout the day and night.
Studies have shown that
babies born with doulas present tend to have shorter hospital stays with fewer admissions to
special care nurseries, breastfeed more easily and have more affectionate mothers in the postpartum period.
If your newborn
baby has an infection, she may be taken to the
special care nursery of the hospital, where she will be placed on a warming bed or in an incubator to regulate her body temperature.
Unless your
baby is in an incubator or on a warming table in the
special care nursery, your hospital might insist that you keep his hat on him at all times, at least during his first day of life.
After a long road in the NICU or
special care nursery, it so exciting to finally take your
baby home and leave the hospital behind.
A 1993 study published in the Journal of Tropical Pediatrics found that preterm
babies weighing between 1,000 and 1,500 grams, or between slightly more than 2 to 3 pounds, who were exclusively breastfed after discharge from the
special care nursery, doubled their birth weight at age 10 weeks.
If your newborn
baby is in a
special care nursery or neonatal intensive
care unit and you are concerned that he is being put to sleep on his tummy or side, make sure to discuss this with his health
care providers.
The folks at Animal
Care League put Sparrow and her
babies in a
special nursery they maintain for nursing momma's.
Early in 2014, she became a Bottle
Baby Nursery volunteer and was soon inspired to do more to help all of the
special needs kitties in APA's
care.
Funded by our selfless donors, the Pet Sponsor Program allows us to provide extensive medical
care for many
special needs pets, as well as countless pregnant mothers and their
babies in our Sponsor
Nursery.