Essential Newborn Care — The First Hour and the First Day
Warm, breathing, fed, clean, identified, protected: the checklist for every birth, and the danger signs card for the mother to take home
What it is
Essential newborn care as a checklist: immediate drying and warmth, delayed cord clamping, skin-to-skin, breastfeeding within the hour, eye care, vitamin K, vaccination, cord care, examination and weighing, the resuscitation trigger, and the newborn danger-signs card for the mother.
Where to use it
Delivery room and postnatal ward; the danger-signs card given at discharge. Evidence for: Hospital Standard 4 — newborn care; Standard 6 — discharge information. Evidence for: Hospital Standard 4 — newborn care; Standard 6 — discharge information. Evidence for: Hospital Standard 4 — newborn care; Standard 6 — discharge information.
Translate and adapt
English master edition. Georgian and other translations are added as they are clinically reviewed. Any facility may translate, add its logo and adapt wording to local practice — keeping the ASF block, the source attribution and the licence line on the sheet. Clinical thresholds and drug doses must be confirmed against national protocols before use.
The same code is printed on the tool itself. Scan it in any facility to reach this page.
Safe Childbirth Checklist
Postpartum Haemorrhage — Drill Card
Newborn Identification and Security — Protocol
Partograph — One-Page Labour Record
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