Immediate care to the newborn

Immediate care to the newborn

    Immediatly after the birth and once the gynecologist cutting the umbilical cord, the priority of all the parents is to know if their son is normal and healthy. The neonatologist gives the answer when has finished the initial recognition. whose goal is to test the state of health of the baby and rule any lesion produced in childbirth.

    All this should be done quickly to promote that the relation mother-son begin fast and the breastfeeding can begin.

 immediate procedures after the birth:

    The immediate cares includes ensuring that the area be free, take action to ensure of good body temperature of newborn, clamping and cutting the umbilical cord, and to put the newborn on the mother's chest as soon as possible.

    The usuall procedures made are:

    1.- Cleaning and prevention of the losing temperature: Is really important to keep the body temperature of the newborn.

    the newborn is wet when he birth because of the liquid amniotic and can get cold easier. To avoid the losing heat, you should dry the bay very well, usually they must wear a bonnet.

    once the baby is dry you can put in contact with the mother, this also help to keep him heat and for other reasons:

    *They can meet better.

    *The breast-feeding should be quickly.

   2.- aspiration of secretions in the mouth and the nose: When the head of the baby out the doctor aims the mouth and the nose to make easier his breathing. In the moment the baby aims the first time the air enters in the respiratory of the lungs, Before the birth, the lungs are not used by the baby  to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide.

    When the baby begins to breath in the moment to birth, the change of presion in the lungs help to close the fetal connections and give a new directioon to the blood flow. In this moment the blood is pushed to the lungs to help to realize the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.

   3.- clamping or ligation of the umbilical cord: The doctor put the baby with the head below the mother's body, to recover all the possible blood for the baby and clamp the umbilical cord with two clamps put to 5 cm to the andomen's baby and then cut the cord.

    It makes the baby stop relying on the placenta to feed for oxygen, the cord is cut when the baby has breath at least three times.

    Before the ligature they get blood to knoew the type of blood.

 

 

    4.- Apgar calification: The health's evaluation begins immediatly, once of the first things which are done is the Apgar test. It is a scoring system created by the Dr Virginia Apgar to assess the newborn's condition at the minute and at the five minutes fter the birth, they evaluated:

    *Activity: muscle tone

    *Pulse

    *Gestures or grimaces, reflex irritability

    *Appearance: color of skin.

    *Respiration

   

 The calification is:

    *7 to 10: Normal

    *4 to 6: Need oxygen

    *1 to 3: The baby needs all the atention and help.