Infant Care
PURPOSE:
To educate expectant parents on normal appearances, procedures, and care of their newborn.
Class participants will:
- be able to discuss healthy newborn appearances, procedures, and reflexes
- demonstrate bathing, proper positions for holding, burping, diaper changing, core care, and swaddling
- identify ways of providing a safe environment for the infant.
A slideshow of normal appearances of newborns will consist of:
- stock bites
- bruising from vacuum extractor
- Lanugos- Fine soft hair
- dry cracking & pealing of skin
- sucking blisters
- appearance of crossed eyes
- function of oil and sweat glands and pores
- newborn rash
- cradle cap
- expects of mom’s hormones on baby
- enlarged breast tissue and witches milk
- Cephilhematoma
- rounded shaped head vs. molding of the head
- vernex- waxy coating on the baby’s skin
- puff face
- immature circulation
Posters:
- APGAR Scoring
- Activity (Muscle Tone), Pulse, Grimace (Reflex Irritability), Appearance (Skin Color), Respiration
- Each will be scored between 0-2 to determine the intensity of the signs observed
- Newborn Procedures: pictures and descriptions
- suctioning
- heat regulation senor identification band
- foot printing
- pediatric check
- Vitamin K injection
- eye medication
- weighing
- measuring length
- measuring head circumference
- temperature
- cord stump painted with triple dye
- cord stump after clamp is removed
- visual check for Jaundice
- heel stick check for Jaundice
- Bilirubin Lights
- Uncircumcised Penis
- Plastibell Circumcision
- Gomco Circumcision
- Newborn Behavior and Reflexes: pictures and descriptions
- Rooting reflex
- Moro reflex
- Ignore Stimulii
- Grasp reflex
- tonic neck reflex
- lift and turn head
- babinski toe reflex
- plantar toe reflex
- walking reflex