Preterm birth complications
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The hallways are lined with women in labor. The beds are filled with mothers holding small or sick newborns. And the walls are plastered with various medical guidelines. This is the labor and maternity ward at Ntchisi District Hospital – one of four district hospitals participating in the quality improvement...
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By Tariku Kefyalew, program manager, Health & Nutrition, Save the Children Ethiopia. Shitanesh Assefa was a brand new mother from Wogidi district, in the Amhara region of Ethiopia, when she found herself in a delivery room, right after delivering her first child, watching nurses and midwives work to resuscitate her baby....
Read MoreDansa proudly sits cradling her 2 week old baby, Dhiibo. She is now at the end of a long Neonatal ICU admission. Dansa’s was just 7 month pregnant when she presented to the hospital. She was referred from a local health center because her pregnancy was complicated with Pre-eclampsia, a...
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This post originally appeared on the Maternal Health Task Force blog. The author for the post is Rebecca Bear, PhD candidate, Victoria University of Wellington. The recent release of an International Consensus Statement on Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) for preterm and low birthweight babies has once again highlighted the importance...
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By Olive Cocoman, Kadi Toure, Mary Kinney World Prematurity Day is a key moment to focus global attention on the leading cause of child deaths under age 5 – complications from preterm birth – which accounted for an estimated 1 million deaths in 2015. Efforts for World Prematurity Day support...
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