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Page 1 of 4 Welcoming The Newborn
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Society whether it is America, Russia, Germany, France, India–welcomes a newborn. When a baby is born everyone would like to hold and cuddle the little one. The whole world around the baby is transformed into baby language.
The Newborn’s week was celebrated from November 15th to 21st, 2000. During this week the neonates planned to rally together to fight for their birth right.
Neonates are babies aged between 0 to one month. The normal gestation period of pregnancy is 37 weeks. How must the newborn baby be looked after? Two factors contribute to the concept of neonatal care at birth and at home: If the mother delivered the baby normally and whether on time? What was the baby’s weight at birth? In developed countries most neonates are born premature but have normal birth weight, while in developing countries like India, babies are born at Term but have low birth weight.
Due to low birth weight, most Indian babies suffer from what is called Intra Uterine Growth Retardation, says Pediatrician Dr. Ashish Bavdekar. The broader classification is guided in this manner:
- Small for Gestation Age (SGA): Babies who have low birth weight (2.5kgs)
- Appropriate for Gestation Age (AGA): Babies who have normal birth weight (2.5–3.5kgs).
- Large for Gestation Age (LGA): Babies who are too large at birth (3.5–4.0kgs). A baby can be LGA irrespective of prematurity and birth weight factors. The LGA baby may be large because both parents may be big; but the LGA factor could be problematic if the mother suffers from diabetes.
An SGA baby is malnourished and prone to develop problems like low blood sugar level, neonatal jaundice and infections, therefore a simple cold and cough is likely to develop into pneumonia. The baby might even suffer from septicemia (the whole body gets infected) or complications with diarrhea.
At 0–1month of age the baby is prone to infection as it has low immunity (its body does not have enough antibodies to fight the infection). Medication in such cases is given intravenously.
In western world babies do not suffer from malnutrition like in India. Therefore the western parameters of prematurity cannot be adapted in our country as our problems are entirely different, states Dr. Bavdekar.
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