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Hospital birth
Hospitals are trying increasingly harder to meet all of your labour needs and comforts.
Helping my premature baby
Your baby will be classed as
premature if she is born before 37 weeks, which is regarded as full-term. Not
all babies need to have special care, but some babies need to be in a neonatal intensive ca . . .
Babyproof your home
Once your baby starts becoming mobile, it’s time to think about making sure your home is safe.
Birth choices
Towards
the end of your pregnancy, if you haven’t done so already, you will need to start
thinking about your choices for childbirth. A birth plan, which lays out how
you’d like things to happen wh . . .
Tongue-tie
Tongue-tie occurs when the lingual frenulum (the cord of tissue that attaches the tongue to the floor of the mouth) is shorter, tighter and more restrictive than normal.
It can impai . . .
Hypoglycaemia in newborns
Hypoglycemia occurs when blood glucose dips below normal and around two in every 1,000 newborn babies develop it, most commonly premature babies, low-birthweight babies and babies born to moms . . .
Failure to thrive
Some children do not grow or gain as much weight as they should. There can be many causes for this condition known as failure to thrive.
Down syndrome
Down syndrome (DS) is a genetic condition in which a baby is born with an extra chromosome.
We inherit 23 chromosomes from each of our parents, adding up to a total of 46 – but child . . .
Dehydration
Babies and children can easily suffer from dehydration because they’re more prone to childhood illnesses that can cause diarrhea and vomiting.
We need to absorb enough water to . . .
Cleft lip and palate
In the US one baby in every 700-1000 babies are born with a cleft lip and palate – where the lip and/or palate don’t fuse early in pregnancy.
With a cleft lip, there’s a gap that ext . . .