Essential care includes:
- Immediate care at birth (delayed cord clamping, thorough drying, assessment of breathing, skin-to-skin contact, early initiation of breastfeeding)
- Thermal care
- Resuscitation when needed
- Support for breast milk feeding
- Nurturing care
- Infection prevention
- Assessment of health problems
- Recognition and response to danger signs
- Timely and safe referral when needed
- Working with countries and partners to implement the Every Newborn: An action plan to end preventable deaths adopted in May 2014 in the framework of the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents' Health (2016-30);
- Working with countries to strengthen the availability and quality of data on routine health care for babies
- Coordinating the development of indicators at national and subnational level to assess coverage of key indicators for essential newborn care
Guidelines
- Regularly updating clinical guidelines for the routine care of newborns
- Supporting countries to implement these guidelines
Quality of care
- Work with partners to develop tools to improve health workers’ skills and to assess the quality of health care provided to all babies
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Research
- An Work with partners around the world to conduct research into interventions to improve routine newborn health care
Wash Your Hands Often.
The monsoon season brings with it cooling breezes and a lot of germs. The damp atmosphere encourages fungal and bacterial growth all over the house. You might inadvertently carry flu or common cold germs to your baby, so the best thing to do is wash your hands with germs cleaner antibacterial multiple times during the day. Wash your hands before you prepare the baby’s formula, give the baby bath, handle the sip cup or teething ring, and even when dressing or changing the baby. Wash all of baby’s things in antibacterial soap or detergent and let them air dry before use.
Keep Away if You’re Unwell.
It is common to catch a cold during this season, and equally easy to pass it on to your baby. It is best to keep away from your baby if you have a fever or a runny nose. If you must handle the baby (for feeding or changing), wear latex gloves and don a clean set of cloth before picking up the child.
Store Baby’s Diapers in a Dry Place.
All items that are left undisturbed for some period of time will attract mold and fungal growth. These can cause skin irritation for your baby. Always buy sealable diaper packets and keep naphthalene balls or silica gel packets in the diaper drawer to absorb moisture. Keep wipes, talcum powder and a changing flannel in the same drawer, so that you can change the baby quickly.
Disinfection of the house
New born care also includes keeping of the house unconditionally clean. Apart from flies and mosquitoes flying in and spreading diseases, your house might attract cockroaches, germs, fungal and bacterial infections. Spraying all plastic, metal and glass surfaces with germs cleaner multi use hygiene antibacterial liquid cleaners, mopping the floors with disinfectant soap and using germs cleaner Multi-Purpose cleaning wipes on spills will keep germs and bacterial infections at bay. Focus your energies on keeping the kitchen, bathroom and wash basin clean and free of germs. Also get your house fumigated to keep flies and other insects away.
Be Careful with Baby’s Clothes.
You wash your hands before handling the baby and put several hygiene checks in place to keep your house clean. It is prudent to exercise similar precaution with the baby's cloth and toys as well. The baby’s clothes should not be washed with the rest of your laundry load. Wash the baby’s clothes and intimates separately with fabric softener and mild antibacterial detergent. Air dry all the clothes and accessories, and steam dry any metal or rubber implements or toys. Also, even if your baby wears diapers and there is minimal chance of bed-wetting, do change the baby’s bedding every two days to keep germs away.
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