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Full Newborn Check

NZ$5.00

This comprehensive newborn check serves as an easy-to-follow guide for assessing your a baby from head to toe, helping you identify both normal and abnormal findings. It includes clear checkboxes for each section, as well as spaces for additional notes and referrals when necessary.

The checklist covers the following areas:

  • Head

  • Face

  • Shoulders & Neck

  • Chest

  • Groin & Hips

  • Hands & Arms

  • Legs & Feet

  • Back & Buttocks

  • Skin

This guide is designed to be a valuable tool in both clinical practice and at-home assessments, ensuring you don't miss anything.

Please Note: While this checklist covers common assessments, not every possible abnormal condition is listed. If you have concerns, always consult.

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This comprehensive newborn check serves as an easy-to-follow guide for assessing your a baby from head to toe, helping you identify both normal and abnormal findings. It includes clear checkboxes for each section, as well as spaces for additional notes and referrals when necessary.

The checklist covers the following areas:

  • Head

  • Face

  • Shoulders & Neck

  • Chest

  • Groin & Hips

  • Hands & Arms

  • Legs & Feet

  • Back & Buttocks

  • Skin

This guide is designed to be a valuable tool in both clinical practice and at-home assessments, ensuring you don't miss anything.

Please Note: While this checklist covers common assessments, not every possible abnormal condition is listed. If you have concerns, always consult.

This comprehensive newborn check serves as an easy-to-follow guide for assessing your a baby from head to toe, helping you identify both normal and abnormal findings. It includes clear checkboxes for each section, as well as spaces for additional notes and referrals when necessary.

The checklist covers the following areas:

  • Head

  • Face

  • Shoulders & Neck

  • Chest

  • Groin & Hips

  • Hands & Arms

  • Legs & Feet

  • Back & Buttocks

  • Skin

This guide is designed to be a valuable tool in both clinical practice and at-home assessments, ensuring you don't miss anything.

Please Note: While this checklist covers common assessments, not every possible abnormal condition is listed. If you have concerns, always consult.

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🌿 The Placenta 🌿

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The placenta is an incredible organ that a mama grows only during pregnancy and acts as a life-sustaining connection between mama and p
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✨ Homebirth ✨

When becoming pregnant it is important to do your research and figure out where your ideal place of birth is. 

If a mama has a low risk pregnancy then the safest place to give birth is at home or in a primary birthing unit. However th
✨ PLACENTA ACRETA ✨

Placenta accreta spectrum is a serious but rare complication in pregnancy.
It occurs when the placenta invades deeply into the muscle layer of the uterus (womb).
There are three categories:
* Placenta accreta
* Placenta increta
*
✨ Acupuncture ✨

Acupuncture can be used in many settings for pregnancy & labour and birth, and the postnatal period. 
 
 Acupuncture during pregnancy has been proven to be effective in helping mama relieve common conditions such as:
* Nausea
* M
✨ Hands and Knees ✨

One of my favourite position to be adapted in labour and birth and I love catching a pēpi in this position. 

* Gravity can help bring the baby down and out
* The uterus can contract more strongly and efficiently
* The pēpi can g
Group B strep✨ ✨
Group B Streptococcus is a bacteria that can be present in the vagina without causing any symptoms.
It is found in 15-25% of mama and is typically harmless.
This screening test is optional due to the low risk of infection, with about
✨ Peanut Ball ✨

What is a peanut ball used for???

During labour a peanut ball is placed between the knees or ankles to help open the pelvis which can allow the pēpi to find a more favourable position. 

I suggest using this when the baby is in a po