Newborn Unit News Today

A Preterm baby is one born alive before 37 weeks of pregnancy are completed (born too soon)

The governor said the county will scale up newborn units in Nairobi.

Safaricom and its two foundations have unveiled new maternal healthcare facilities worth KES 38 million ($358,000) in Homa Bay County, Kenya

Safaricom and MPESA Foundations have unveiled Sh38 million investments to provide Homa Bay County hospitals with maternal health facilities.

NEW multi-million pound maternity theatres are now officially open at Bradford Royal Infirmary.

NEW visiting arrangements have been announced for Bradford Teaching Hospitals.

Worried by the increase in cases of preterm babies, paediatricians have noted that while the average pregnancy lasts for approximately 37 to 42 weeks, every baby born before

Date Time Immediate skin-to-skin contact after birth improves survival of pre-term babies Continuous skin-to-skin contact starting immediately after delivery even before the baby has been stabilised can reduce mortality by 25 per cent in infants with a very low birth weight. This according to a study in low- and middle-income countries coordinated by the WHO on the initiative of researchers at Karolinska Institutet published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Continuous skin-to-skin contac...

Immediate kangaroo mother care for preterm and low birthweight babies requires dedicated Mother-Newborn Intensive Care Units GENEVA, 27 May...

A MUM has told of her devastation after her tiny baby was born alive after an abortion at 18 weeks - and lived for ten hours. Loran Denison, 27, was pregnant with her fourth child, when a test at 15 weeks revealed he had Edwards syndrome. Its a rare but very serious condition and most babies with Edwards syndrome will die before or shortly after being born, or at a young age. Loran and partner Scott Watson, 35, made the agonising decision to have a medical abortion after being told he was...