Cord cutting

• Partner or other support person cuts cord
• Caregiver cuts cord
• Clamp and cut after cord stops pulsating
• Clamp and cut immediately

Delivery of placenta

• Spontaneous
• Encouraged with breast stimulation, suckling
• Hastened with medication or fundal massage
• Upright position
• Manual extraction
• Use of placental tissue by the hospital

Maintaining uterine muscle tone

• Breastfeed baby
• Fundal massage by nurse or mother
• Medication to contract uterus

Immediate care of baby

• In parents' arms for observation and Apgar score
• In mother's bed for observation and Apgar score
• Near parents in bassinet or isolette
• In mother's bed for observation, weighing, and first bath
• In nursery for observation, weighing, and first bath

Warmth of baby

• Baby skin-to-skin with mother, with blanket or heater over both
• Wrapped in heated blanket, held by parent
• In heated bassinet in mother's room
• In special heated unit in nursery

Airway

• Suction only if necessary
• Suction with bulb syringe almost immediately

Vitamin Ê

• Oral doses
• By injection soon after birth

Eye care

• None
• Use of nonirritating antibiotic agent
• At one hour after birth

Cord blood collection

• Not planned
• Public cord blood bank donation
• Private or family cord blood collection and storage

Infant feeding

• Breastfeeding within first hour
• Breastfeeding, but could be delayed
• Infant formula
• Feeding on cues from baby
• Feedings scheduled by hospital staff
• Supplemental feedings to breastfed baby (water, glucose water, formula)
• Supplement (if used) given to breastfed baby by parents or nurse

Contact with baby

• Continuous rooming-in
• Daytime rooming-in
• For feedings only, in nursery at other times

Circumcision

• None
• Immediately (within two days)
• Delayed (within two weeks)
• With one or both parents present to comfort baby
• With no anesthetic
• With anesthetic
• At religious ceremony performed by spiritual leader

Newborn exam

• Performed by baby's caregiver
• Performed by hospital caregiver
• Performed in presence of parents

- Performed in nursery away from parents

Newborn vaccinations

• None
• Hepatitis Â
• Controlling pain
• Use of self-help techniques before use of medications
• Medications

Visitors

• Unlimited visitation desired
• Limit who will visit
• Limit when visitors can come into room
• Hours or amount of time limited by hospital

Dietary preferences

• General diet
• Vegetarian (lacto-ovo or vegan)
• Kosher
• Food allergies and sensitivities
• Other

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