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… you can do to protect your health and the health of your baby. Experts recommend getting the COVID-19 vaccine if you … Talk to your doctor if you're concerned about your baby's risk of infection. If you have COVID-19 or have … Take extra care to avoid passing the infection to your baby. Wear a well-fitting mask. Wear it anytime you hold or …
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… movements of the tongue. How is tongue-tie treated? If your baby is younger than 1 year of age and has problems with … (frenotomy) to clip the lingual frenulum . If your baby has tongue-tie and is feeding okay, you may choose to … movements of the tongue. How is tongue-tie treated? If your baby is younger than 1 year of age and has problems with …
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… for short periods throughout the day, such as when your baby sleeps. You may be able to collect and store breast milk so that your partner can feed the baby while you sleep. Because both you and the baby have to learn how to breastfeed, you may want to wait a …
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… head to make it easier to breathe and sleep. Suction your baby's nose if he or she can't breathe well enough to eat or … Start rescue breathing . Call your doctor now if your baby or child has moderate trouble breathing . Call a doctor … more frequent breast- or bottle-feeding. Avoid giving your baby sports drinks, soft drinks, undiluted fruit juice, or …
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… a picture of hand placement for chest compressions on a baby .) How do you give chest compressions? Use the heel of … Press the chest down at least one-third of the depth of the baby's chest. If you are trained in CPR, how many … 2 breaths . Repeat this 30/2 cycle until help arrives or baby breathes on his or her own. (See a picture of rescue …
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… You might be thinking about yourself and your baby and wondering if you can cope with contractions. As … become heavy, dark and bloody. Cervix continues to open. Baby’s head continues to move down into pelvis. Healthcare … the liquid is green, go to the hospital. Green means your baby has had a bowel movement. This may happen for no …
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… Yes Recent head injury No Recent head injury Does your baby seem sick? A sick baby probably will not be acting normally. For example, the baby may be much fussier than usual or not want to eat. Yes …
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… It can be hard to know if a medicine is safe for your baby. Most medicines are not studied in pregnant women. … researchers worry about how the medicines might affect the baby. But some medicines have been taken for so long by so … especially during the first 3 months. That is when a baby's organs form. But what if you take medicine for a …
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… done between 10 to 14 weeks to tell you the chance of your baby developing a genetic abnormality Urine tests to check … Columbia. This screening indicates the chance of your baby having Down syndrome , trisomy 18 or an open neural … some people will screen positive, most won’t have a baby with one of these conditions. Prenatal screening …
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… problems, including Down syndrome . The risk of having a baby with certain chromosome problems increases with your … birth defects. Screening tests can show the chance that a baby has certain conditions. Diagnostic tests can show for sure if the baby has certain conditions. What you choose may depend on …
