Baby On Board
Even trained paediatricians who have babies of their own are anxious about them when they first get to the postnatal ward!
Babies, for their part, sometimes aren't very reassuring either. They get mucousy, have blue spells, irregular breathing, sleep deeply or not at all … on the whole, they rarely fit into the pattern we were expecting.....
Mucus - Snuffles - Cough - Sticky eyes - Hiccups - Fever on day 2 - Weight loss - Skin rash: toxic erythema - Dry skin - Fat necrosis - Sweating - Blue around the mouth - Nails - Pink-stained nappies - Urinary stream - Tongue-tie - Umbilical cleaning - Umbilical granuloma - Umbilical hernia - Wrapping babies - Dummies and thumb-sucking - Fourth-day blues - Naming the baby.
Chapter 11: Important medical matters
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