Swaddling the baby in a blanket may help give comfort to an irritable baby.
Caring for drug addicted babies.
Narcotics vicodin percocet and oxycontin.
Use bottles that prevent air from entering the stomach.
Nutrition breast feeding by an addicted mom is not suggested.
The breast milk of a using mother contains highly.
Due to an explosion in the number of infants born addicted to drugs because of their mother s use while pregnant pediatricians and hospitals have been given updated guidelines for identifying monitoring and treating newborns exposed to painkillers and other drugs in the womb.
Non medical care for recovering infants.
Babies who are born addicted to drugs recovery first treatment center.
Gently rocking the baby.
Babies who are born addicted to drugs face a life long struggle because of parental drug abuse or alcohol abuse.
Brown s bottles are designed for this.
By offering care and love to a drug exposed baby you can restore hope to this newborn life.
Give the infant a pacifier.
Provide a quiet.
At birth the baby s dependence on the substance continues but since the drug is no longer available the baby s central nervous system becomes overstimulated causing symptoms of withdrawal.
Kangaroo care keeping the room quiet and the lights dim.
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Extra caloric intake may be needed for the baby because.
Provide a calm dimly lit environment.
The american academy of pediatrics aap guidelines are a response to what the group calls an alarming increase in addicted newborns.