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Nearly one third of moms practice bed-sharing with infant
Almost one third of women participating in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program report sharing a bed with their infant, as reported in the October Journal of Pediatrics.
Almost one third of women participating in the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program report sharing a bed with their infant, as reported in the October Journal of Pediatrics.
Researchers looked at 708 mothers of babies up to 8 months old who were getting nutritional assistance from WIC. They found that 48.6% of mothers reported sharing a room, but not a bed, with their infants. This complies with an AAP recommendation in 2005 that babies from birth to age one sleep in the same room as their parents, but not share a bed.
However, 32.5% shared a bed with their child, while 18.9% had the baby sleep in his or her own room. The report noted that teenage mothers, as well as less educated mothers, were more likely to bed-share with their infants. African-American mothers also bed-shared more frequently than women who belonged to other ethnicities, the researchers found.
The benefits of concurrent fetal and maternal heart rate monitoring
April 17th 2024A recent study revealed that employing maternal heart rate monitoring alongside fetal heart rate monitoring during labor significantly decreases the incidence of neonatal encephalopathy and severe neonatal acidemia.
Stress ulcer prophylaxis does not provide prevention of gastrointestinal bleeding in neonates
December 4th 2023In a poster abstract presented at the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Midyear Clinical Meeting & Exhibition held in Anaheim, California, stress ulcer prophylaxis (SUP) did not appear to provide benefit for prevention of gastrointestinal bleeding and did not increase SUP-associated adverse effects.
Hematocrit levels in newborns: EPP vs DCC study reveals surprising findings
November 15th 2023A recent study in JAMA Network Open investigates the impact of extrauterine placental perfusion versus delayed cord clamping on hematocrit levels in newborns, shedding light on potential alternatives for optimizing infant outcomes during birth.
