Happy Birthday, Healthy Newborn Network!

This week, the Healthy Newborn Network celebrates its second birthday, and celebrates a new day for newborn health. As the largest community for newborn health professionals, advocates and stakeholders in the world, we wish to commemorate each one of our members and partner organizations for their commitment to reducing newborn mortality. Together, we are improving the health of newborns and their families, and moving closer towards ending preventable deaths.

Since our launch in April 2009, HNN has grown to be an active community of close to 70 international and national organizations and nearly 3,000 individual members. With your help, we have seen close to 100,000 visits, and reached 180 countries. We have expanded our resource library to include 900 key resources from our partners, and have shared valuable insight and innovative ideas from contributors across the world. Our blog, facebook and twitter pages have connected thousands of people and facilitated dialogue, creating opportunities for collaboration and strengthening partnerships.

In celebration of our birthday, we thank you for your sustained commitment to address the critical knowledge gaps that will improve the health and survival of all newborns. Our birthday wish is that you continue to help our community grow: ignite the connections and opportunities HNN offers, share your stories of progress, your lessons learned, news, photos, and other newborn health resources.

Take a look at a few of the highlights in newborn health and some of the most popular content from the Healthy Newborn Network:

Top 5 Blogs:

• If you were born as an African baby… By Joy Lawn
• Neonatal Nurses: High value but given low priority: By Joy Lawn and Mary Kinney
• Fighting newborn infections: New evidence leads the way: By Steve Wall
• A Global Conversation: Newborn Health in India: By Gary Darmstadt, Amie Newman, Monika Gutestam and JoAnn Paradis 

Top 5 Resources:

• The Lancet Series on Stillbirth
• Improving Newborn Survival in Low-Income Countries: Community-Based Approached and Lessons from South Asia
• Saving Newborn Lives in Nigeria: Newborn Health in the context of Integrated Maternal, Newborn and Child
• Cuidado Post Natal: una Oportunidad Curcial para Salvar a Madres y Recién Nacidos
• 'Kangaroo mother care’ to prevent neonatal deaths due to preterm birth complications

Video Highlights:

• Shivgarh: Helping moms and babies through song
• Neonatal Nursing in India: International Neonatal Nursing Excellence Award
• Projahnmo: Generations to Come

Photo Essay Highlights:

• Fighting Newborn Infection: Chlorhexidine in Rural Nepal
• Empowering Communities, Saving Lives
• The impact of the global shortage of midwives