A Guide To Your New Family's First Weeks - Meriter Health Services
A Guide To Your New Family's First Weeks - Meriter Health Services
A Guide To Your New Family's First Weeks - Meriter Health Services
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<strong>First</strong> <strong>Weeks</strong> Index 2010<br />
Activity............................................................ 19, 20<br />
Alcohol............................................................ 31, 50<br />
Anger.........................................................48, 49, 56<br />
Apgar score............................................................10<br />
Baby (see newborn)<br />
Baby blues..............................................................57<br />
Bath....................................................... 8, 42, 43, 50<br />
Birth certificate.......................................................9<br />
Birth control..........................................................18<br />
Birthing center........................................................6<br />
Blood pressure........................................................9<br />
Bowel movement, infant.....................................36<br />
Breast<br />
Infection...................................................28<br />
Soreness....................................................26<br />
Pumping...................................................29<br />
Massage....................................................28<br />
Breast Care............................................................17<br />
Breast self-exam....................................................17<br />
Breastfeeding<br />
Benefits.....................................................21<br />
Feeding on cue................................. 21, 24<br />
Latch.................................................. 23, 24<br />
Leaking breast milk......................... 25, 28<br />
Length of feeds.......................................24<br />
Let down..................................................29<br />
Pacifier use...............................................21<br />
Positions<br />
Cradle..........................................22<br />
Cross cradle................................22<br />
Football.......................................22<br />
Side lying....................................22<br />
Problems.............................. 26, 27, 28, 70<br />
Success............................................... 21, 70<br />
Breast milk<br />
Containers................................................30<br />
Pumping............................................ 29, 30<br />
Storage......................................................30<br />
Supply................................................ 25, 26<br />
Thawing/warming..................................30<br />
Colostrum................................................25<br />
Breast pump..........................................................29<br />
Bulb syringe...........................................................45<br />
Burping...................................................................32<br />
Car seat information............................................51<br />
Cesarean birth................................................ 19, 20<br />
Childcare................................................................51<br />
Circumcision<br />
Care of......................................................41<br />
Delay of....................................................40<br />
Pain control.............................................40<br />
Potential benefits....................................39<br />
Risks..........................................................40<br />
Classes.....................................................back cover<br />
Colic........................................................................47<br />
Cord care...............................................................38<br />
Cradle cap..............................................................37<br />
Cramping, uterine.................................................16<br />
Crying.............................................................. 47, 48<br />
Depression................................................57, 58, 59<br />
Development.........................................................54<br />
Diapering...............................................................36<br />
Diarrhea.................................................................36<br />
Diet and nutrition....................................18, 30, 31<br />
Domestic Violence...............................................58<br />
Driving, resuming.................................................20<br />
Drowsy...................................................................53<br />
Emergency.............................................................48<br />
Engorgement.........................................................27<br />
Episiotomy (Stitches)...........................................16<br />
Erythromycin........................................................12<br />
Exercises (see Postnatal Exercises)......60, 61, 62<br />
Family Adjustment....................................7, 55, 56<br />
Feeding cues................................................... 24, 34<br />
Feeding record................................................ 65-69<br />
Fingernails, newborn..................................... 37, 38<br />
Foreskin.......................................................... 39, 40<br />
Formula..................................................................33<br />
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