Kangaroo mother care (KMC) is a practical model of newborn care built around prolonged skin-to-skin contact, exclusive breastfeeding when possible, early…
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Kangaroo Mother Care in Resource-Limited Settings
Placental pathology and its clinical correlates
The placenta is a temporary organ with a permanent record of pregnancy. Its structure reflects maternal circulation, fetal blood flow, inflammation, infection,…
Fetal lung maturity assessment and corticosteroid therapy
The transition from placental support to independent breathing is one of the most important events in neonatal medicine. Before birth, the lungs must produce…
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome: Nonpharmacologic Care Approaches
Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) describes a group of withdrawal signs that may occur after in-utero exposure to opioids and, in some cases, other…
Maternal Sepsis Recognition And Management Around Birth
Maternal sepsis is a time-critical complication in which infection triggers organ dysfunction during pregnancy, labor, birth, or the postpartum period. Its…
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia From Prenatal Diagnosis to Surgery
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a developmental defect in the diaphragm that allows abdominal organs to move into the chest. The resulting compression…
Thermoregulation in extremely low birth weight infants
Extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants, generally those weighing less than 1,000 grams at birth, have limited physiological reserves. Their thin skin, small…
Umbilical Cord Blood Banking: Science, Ethics, and Clinical Responsibility
Umbilical cord blood is a source of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells collected after birth from the placenta and cord. Once treated as biological waste,…
Maternal BMI and Its Impact on Birth Outcomes
Maternal body mass index (BMI) before pregnancy is one of the clinical measures used to estimate the likelihood of certain pregnancy and birth outcomes. It can…
The role of probiotics in preventing necrotizing enterocolitis
Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is one of the most serious gastrointestinal diseases affecting premature and very-low-birth-weight infants. It can progress…
