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Sleep Safety For Your Newborn

P Hamilton-Stubbs November 5, 2017

In the immediate postnatal period, mommy falls are of special concern . Mothers who are awake and able to respond to their newborn infant immediately after birth can suddenly become unexpectedly sleepy, ill, or for a variety of other reasons, unable to continue holding their infant. Mom may fall, the baby may be dropped and both could be injured.

Don't get me wrong, early bonding and skin-to-skin contact are to be encouraged. But like most things, precautions should be taken. Here’s some precautions:

1 position the infant so that the face can be seen

2 keep the infant’s head in the sniffing position

3 do not cover the baby’s nose or mouth

4. keep the neck straight

5 make sure the infants shoulders and chest face the mother

6 flex the infants legs

7 keep the infant’s back covered with a blanket

8. cover the infant’s head with an infant cap

9. have someone available to call if you become light headed

10 when mother wants to sleep, place the infant in a bassinet

Reference: pediatrics.aappublications.org.

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Dr. Hamilton-Stubbs is a nurse MD.  After completing her nursing education with honors at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio,                 Dr. Hamilton-Stubbs pursued her dream of attending a HBCU.  She matriculated at Meharry Medical College where she graduated in the top 4th of her class.

Dr. Hamilton-Stubbs completed an internal medicine internship, pediatric residency, adult neurology residency and child neurology fellowship.  In 1994 she accepted a position as one of only two physicians in the Sleep Disorders Center at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical College of Virginia.  In 1997 she resigned to start a Christian based medical practice, SCCA.

In 2006 she began studying the medicinal benefits of foods. Later she returned to the class room.   She studied herbal medicine at Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine, Accre Ghana and is currently studying functional medicine.

In 2014 Dr. Hamilton-Stubbs expanded the services at SCCA and changed to name to reflect her goal for patient care: sleep and total wellness

Dr. Hamilton-Stubbs practices a blend of conventional medicine with the best of alternative medicine, integrative - functional sleep medicine.
 

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