- Early Transfer Home
- Breastfeeding
- Birth Registration
- A Guide to Contraception
- Bathing your Baby
- Safe Sleep for your Baby
- Jaundice in Newborn Babies
- Totwatch/ Menningitis
- Protecting your baby from Low Blood Glucose
- Anti D Prophylaxis
- Breast Awareness
- Colposcopy
- Newborn Bloodspot Screening Test
- Understanding Group B Streptococcal (GBS) Infection
Early Transfer Home Breastfeeding
The midwife will
- Call to see you in your home for four visits
- Transfer your care to the General Practitioner (GP) and Public Health Nurse on day 5
Follow up care
- Your baby will have a GP check up at 2 & 6 weeks old
- You will have a GP check up at 6 weeks after birth.
Healthy babies
- have normal colour for their ethnicity, (no jaundice within 24 hours of age)
- maintain a stable body temperature
- pass urine and meconium/stools
- initiate feeds, suck well on the breast (or bottle) and settle between feeds (feeds at least 10-12 times in 24 hours if breastfeeding & 6-8 times in 24 hours if artificial feeding)
- NOT be excessively irritable, tense, sleepy or floppy
If you are concerned bring your baby to the GP or Emergency Department
Safe Sleep for babies
- The safest place for the baby to sleep is in the cot, in your bedroom
- Place the baby on his/her back with feet to the bottom of the cot
- Don’t smoke or allow anyone to smoke in the home
- Don’t fall asleep in bed with your baby if you or your partner have taken alcohol
- Use cellular blankets, avoid cot bumpers, duvets or baby nests
- Don’t let your baby get too hot or too cold, room temp between 16˚-20˚C.
You may contact your GP or Hospital if you experience
- Sudden and profuse blood loss or persistent increased blood loss or pass blood clots from the vagina
- Fever >38˚C, shivering, flu-like symptoms, abdominal pain and/or offensive vaginal loss
- Headaches accompanied by visual disturbances and/or nausea & vomiting
- Leg/Calf pain with redness or swelling
- Shortness of breath or chest pain.
- Feel unwell in any other way or have any concerns
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