Maternity Care: Healthy Placenta
Maternal age, premature rupture of the membranes, high blood pressure, and blood-clotting disorders can affect the health of the placenta. Dr. Robert Feldman, Chief and Medical Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology with Baptist Health South Florida, explains them and talks …
Maternity Care: Co-sleeping
About co-sleeping and co-bedding, Paula Plympton, Neonatal Nurse Practitioner with Baptist Health South Florida, says it is important that a baby have their safe sleep area, because there can be accidental suffocation with a parent or a pillow.
She explains …
Maternity Care: SIDS vs. SUID
Dr. Jaime Fernandez, Pediatric Neonatologist with Homestead Hospital, explains SIDS stands for sudden infant death syndrome: “What’s happened is the nomenclature has changed a little bit, in the sense that now we call it SUID, which is sudden unexpected infant …
