NICU

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

Mother and baby have change physically and emotionally wihile born a baby, The birth a baby is a wonderful and complex process itself. A babt must suffering many physical adjustment with the outside atmosphare out of the mother's blood. In the process baby leaving the uterus then baby's body system working together in a new way.

At the time baby has trouble making the transition out side of mother's body, in some case require a special care to help the newborn bayies.

Siddharthanagar city hospital upgrade NICU medical care has advance technology and trained health care professionals to give special care

Factors include to need NICU:

• Changes in a baby’s organ systems due to lack of oxygen (fetal distress or birth asphyxia)
• Buttocks delivered first (breech birth) or other abnormal position
• The baby's first stool (meconium) passed during pregnancy into the amniotic fluid
• Umbilical cord wrapped around the baby's neck (nuchal cord)
• Forceps or cesarean delivery
• Baby born at gestational age of less than 37 weeks or more than 42 weeks
• Birth weight less than 5 pounds, 8 ounces (2,500 grams) or over 8 pounds, 13 ounces (4,000 grams)
• Small for gestational age
• Medicine or resuscitation in the delivery room
• Respiratory distress including rapid breathing, grunting, or stopping breathing (apnea)
• Infection such as herpes, group B streptococcus, chlamydia
• Seizures
• Low blood sugar (hypoglycemia)
• Need for extra oxygen or monitoring, IV (intravenous) therapy, or medicines
• Need for special treatment or procedures such as a blood transfusion