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Important Information For The New Born Period |
- Give sponge baths until the umbilical cord falls off and stops weeping. This is usually at two to three weeks of age. Tub bathing may begin then. Generally, this is at four weeks. It is not necessary to bath your baby every day. Once every two days is all right unless necessary.
- Breast feeding is usually approximately every two hours and formula feeding is every three hours. We are breast feeding advocates. However the mother should accommodate to what is available. It is all right to mix feeding, although breast feeding should take the main role.
- Rubbing alcohol with cotton tips or cotton balls are used daily to keep the navel are clean until there is no more oozing or drainage.
- Juices, water and any form of solid is not given during this period.
- Apply moisturizer in the creases to avoid excessive dryness in these areas.
- Do not apply alcohol or Vaseline and before applying baby lotion, consult your pediatrician. In the initial few days of your baby's life, this is not applied to allow the dead skin to fall off easily.
- Learn the personality of your baby. Your baby does not have the power of speech. Thus by knowing your baby, the parent knows when something is wrong.
- Have a thermometer handy. Fever before three months of age is 100.8 °F and after three months 101 °F.
- Learn to differentiate the different cries of your baby.
- Upon discharge from the hospital, call for an appointment within two to three days. Please emphasize you have a newborn as you are given priority. If a problem develops or there is any concern before your first appointment, please call us or better yet, arrange for an immediate sick visit so we can see your baby immediately.
- If any problem develops with your baby, please feel free to call or discuss it with us. If you do not receive a response with in a few hours, please call back.
- We believe in your instincts. Anytime you are not comfortable and suspect something is wrong with your baby or your baby is vomiting, has fever, feeding poorly, irritable or listless, jaundiced, please call for an appointment as soon as possible.
- In any event that your baby needs emergency care, do not bring your baby to the clinic. Call 911 or rush to the nearest emergency room. These facilities are better equipped. HAVE THE IMPORTANT TELEPHONE NUMBERS POSTED IN A VISIBLE AREA NEAR YOUR TELEPHONE.
- If you have had other children, the most important advise I can give you is to consider yourself a new parent. Do not compare your baby with your other children or other children. You are inviting disaster. Let your past experience be your guide. Your new member of the family will surely be different and his/her needs may be different. Be open to this. This is your new adventure.
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2545 South Bruce Street Suite 8-10
Las Vegas, NV 89169
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3815 South Jones Street Suite 1A
Las Vegas, NV 89103
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Henderson, NV 89052
Tel. (702)896-6606
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