Neonatal Weight - Timing Is Everything

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Neonatal Weight - Timing Is Everything

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Mary Otero, BSN, RN, NE-BC , Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital, Richmond, VA
Michelle Mayton, RNC-MNN , Mother-Infant Unit, Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital, Richmond, VA

Discipline: Newborn Care (N)

Learning Objectives:
  • The participant will be able to verbalize understanding of recommendations of feedings, voids and stools for breastfed infants during the first 48 hours of life
  • The participant will be able to distinguish between 3 risk factors that could potentially affect weight loss in newborns.
  • The participant will list 3 benefits of changing practice of weighing infants every 24 hours post-delivery.

    • Submission Description:
    Changing the timing of when infants are weighed after deliver allows for a more accurate picture of weight loss. This practice allows for the identification of modifiable risk factors that can lead to supplementation and increased length of stay of breastfed infants.

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    The Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.