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This guideline applies to all health professionals caring for healthy babies born at or after 37 weeks gestation who may require expressed breast milk, or occasionally formula, to be given by a method other than by direct breastfeeding. Management of these babies includes promoting and protecting breastfeeding and aims to detect and prevent any deterioration in the baby's condition.Keywords: breastfeeding/ breast milk/ alternative/ formula/ expressing/ breast/ newborn/ supplementation/

To provide guidance for the immediate care of newborn infants born at or after 37+0 weeks but weighing less than 2.5 KgKeywords: <2.5kg, low birth weight, less than 2.5kg

To provide guidance to identify and evaluate infants who require a car seat challenge prior to discharge from the Neonatal Unit and Transitional Care Ward.Keywords: Car seat challenge/ <2.0kg

To provide guidance for the immediate care and examination of new-born infants for all clinical staff working in the Care Group of women, children and HIV care group.Keywords: Care, Examination, Newborn, Neonate, NIPE, hot cot, weaning.

Feeding and milk volume guidance for babies on the transitional care and post-natal ward.Keywords: Feeding, formula, breast, milk.

Step by step approach on the Recognition, Notification, and Registration.

Guidance on providing feeding support to infants born 34-37 weeks in delivery suite or Transitional care.Keywords: preterm feeding/breastfeeding/breast feeding.

This guideline outlines the clinical responsibilities of staff involved in heel prick blood sampling in neonates, infants and young children. Keywords: neonatal/ neonate/ newborn/ infant/ children/. heel prick/ blood sample

Definition, identification, and management of neonatal hypoglycaemia. Keywords: Neonatal, hypoglycaemia, low blood sugar, glucose gel, reluctant feeder.

To provide guidance for the care required for newborn infants who meet the criteria for NE/ HIE care pathway 1 after birth for all clinical staff working in the Care Group of Women, Children and HIV. Keywords: neonatal encephalopathy/ care pathway 1/ HIE/ hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy/ NEWTT/ modified Sarnat neurological examination

Standard Operating Procedure for the use of incubators on Transitional Care, delivery suite and NNU.Keywords: Incubator, normothermia, preterm IUGR.

Guidance to ensure RCHT staff provide the highest standard of care in supporting expectant/ new mothers and their partners to feed their baby and build strong and loving parent-infant relationships. This is in recognition of the profound importance of early relationships to future health and well-being, and the significant contribution that breastfeeding makes to good physical and emotional health outcomes for children and mothers.Keywords: infant feeding/ breastfeeding/ formula feeding/ parent- infant relationships/ bottle/ parents as partners in care/ close and loving relationships

This guideline is designed to provide guidance on the management of infants exposed to SSRI and related drugs in pregnancy.Keywords: neonatal/ jaundice/ prolonged/ neonate

Indication and referral process for BCG vaccination in the newborn

This guideline outlines the clinical management of infants presenting with hyperbilirubinaemia within the first two weeks of life.Keywords: Neonatal, neonate, newborn jaundice, hyperbilirubinaemia, SBR.

SOP to manage community referrals of neonatal patients.Keywords: Neonate/ Respiratory distress/ Jaundice

To provide guidance for the immediate care of late preterm infants to ensure safe transition following birth until discharge and to reduce to need for neonatal admission. Keywords: Preterm/ NEWTT2 Observations/ skin to skin

This guideline is intended to provide clinicians with advice on how to prevent and manage falls in inpatient babies who are less than 1 year old. It excludes babies who are not inpatients at the time of the fall.Keywords: Paediatric, Baby, Babies, Child, Children, Neonatal, Transitional, Falls, Management, Prevention, Clinical, Guideline, NICE.

This guideline applies to all health professionals caring for healthy, term newborn babies that are reluctant to breast feed. Management of these babies includes promoting and protecting breastfeeding and aims to detect and prevent any deterioration in the baby's condition.Keywords: reluctant/ formula/ expressing/ supplementation/ breast/ colostrum/ skin/ feeding

SOP for use of servo control temperature management on the resuscitaires.Keywords: Servo control/ servo- control/ servo/ thermoregulation/ normothermia/ resuscitaire

Information for staff when caring for women who are performing Newborn Blood Spot screening.

Performing a newborn examination using the NIPE smart database system, referral pathways, NIPE clinics. Keywords: Newborn, new-born, new born, neonatal, NIPE, NIPE Smart, Midwife examination, referral.

SOP for using a Transwarmer.Keywords: Transwarmer/ Thermoregulation/ Single use warming mattress

Summary guideline for neonatal subgaleal haemorrhage: simplified risk factors, picture-based recognition, neonatal monitoring, admission, investigations, blood product resuscitation, consideration of the Major Haemorrhage Protocol, associated injuries and follow-up.Keywords: Subgaleal haemorrhage; SGH; potential to deteriorate; vacuum extraction; instrumental delivery; hypovolaemic shock; Major Haemorrhage Protocol; NNU; neonatal resuscitation.

Tongue tie assessment referral and division.Keywords: Tongue Tie, Ankyloglossia, Frenulotomy.

This guideline gives guidance on bilirubin measurement of the neonate by Transcutaneous Bilirubinometer (TCB) within the community setting.Keywords: TCB/ serum/ jaundice/ neonatal/ baby/ new/ born/ community/ midwife/ transfer/ NEWS

The purpose of this document is to describe the Neonatal Transitional Care pathway. Keywords: transitional care/ postnatal ward

This guideline outlines the management of an infant regarding the administration of Vitamin K. It also considers the information that needs to be provided to, and management of mothers, antenatally.Keywords: phytomenodium

Weighing and care planning for newborn babies with weight loss. >8%->10%Keywords: infant feeding/ weight loss/ weighing/ newborn/ babies/ care planning