Baby checks
by Liam,
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After the birth of your baby there are a number of birth checks that take place to ensure the baby is healthy and put in place measure to treat any thing that isn’t. As soon as the baby’s born they are checked against five points – heart rate, respiratory rate, colour, activity and response to stimulation. As days progress the doctors are at this stage aware of your/family health history, labour and delivery. They then carry out further checks to ensure everything is fine. Things like head circumference and length, fontanel’s. Mouth and palate etc are all checked. There is also a heel prick test which takes place between 5 & 8 days of birth and screens the baby’s blood for rare diseases.