EBB 335 - Evidence on Newborn Baths and Screening for Low Blood Sugars

Evidence Based Birth®

Rebecca Dekker

Pregnancy, Health & Fitness, Childbirth, Parenting, Birth, Medicine, Kids & Family, Doula, Obstetrician, Midwife

4.6 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We're celebrating the upcoming release of the brand new Pocket Guide to Newborn Procedures! Join us as Dr. Dekker explores essential aspects of newborn care: the evidence on 1) pain management during newborn procedures, 2) baby's first bath, and 3) whether and how newborns should receive screening for low blood sugar. In this episode, you'll learn about newborn comfort techniques like skin-to-skin care, massage, "tucking in," and the use of pacifiers. You'll also walk away with a new appreciation for the evidence on delaying the first newborn bath to 24 hours, and the causes and management of newborn low blood sugars (also known as neonatal hypoglycemia).

(00:05:58) Parental Involvement in Newborn Comfort Care

(00:08:34) Pain Relief Techniques for Newborn Procedures

(00:12:01) Enhancing Newborn Comfort and Pain Management

(00:20:22) Newborn Immersion Tub Bathing Advantages

(00:31:45) Factors Contributing to Neonatal Hypoglycemia

(00:39:31) Managing Newborn Hypoglycemia with Blood Sugar Testing

(00:42:49) Enhancing Newborn Comfort and Pain Relief

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. On today's episode, we're going to talk about the evidence on two common newborn
0:05.0	procedures, baby's first bath and the blood sugar screening.
0:12.6	Welcome to the evidence-based birth podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker, and I'm a nurse with my
0:17.8	PhD and the founder of evidence-based birth. Join me each week. and the founder of Evidence-based Birth.
0:26.6	Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information into the hands of families and professionals around the world. As a reminder, this information is not medical advice.
0:32.7	See eBbirth.com slash disclaimer for more details.
0:38.2	Hi, everyone, and welcome to today's episode of the evidence-based birth podcast. My name
0:42.9	is Dr. Rebecca Decker and I will be your teacher for today's episode. Today I'm so excited to
0:48.5	bring you some brand new evidence-based information, all for our listeners about the newborn bath and newborn blood sugar
0:56.8	screening. But before we get started with this content, I have a really big announcement for you.
1:02.0	We've been working on a secret project here at Evidence-based Birth this year, and we are
1:07.5	almost ready to make that project available to the public.
1:12.3	And the secret is, drum roll please, we have been writing and designing a brand new pocket
1:18.5	guide all about the evidence on newborn procedures so that new parents or birth workers who
1:24.7	work with parents can easily access all the information they
1:27.9	need to know about everything that might happen to a baby while they're in the hospital after
1:32.8	birth.
1:33.8	So the Pocket Guide to Newborn Procedures is about the size of my hand, a little bit smaller.
1:38.6	It is going to be color printed, laminated, so it's cleanable, reusable, and it's on this handy
1:44.1	little key ring so you can keep it
1:45.6	packed in your birth bag or hanging at the nurse's station or tucked into your purse or backpack.
1:51.8	In this brand new pocket guide, we're going to cover everything from how the baby's body
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