newborn infant

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newborn infant - a baby from birth to four weeks

babe, baby, infant - a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk; "the baby began to cry again"; "she held the baby in her arms"; "it sounds simple, but when you have your own baby it is all so different"

liveborn infant - infant who shows signs of life after birth

low-birth-weight baby, low-birth-weight infant - an infant born weighing less than 5.5 pounds (2500 grams) regardless of gestational age; "a low-birth-weight infant is at risk for developing lack of oxygen during labor"

postmature infant - infant born after 42 weeks of gestation; usually shows signs of placental insufficiency

preemie, premature baby, premature infant, premie, preterm baby, preterm infant - an infant that is born prior to 37 weeks of gestation

SGA infant, small-for-gestational-age infant - an infant whose size and weight are considerably less than the average for babies of the same age

stillborn infant - infant who shows no signs of life after birth

term infant - infant born at a gestational age between 37 and 42 completed weeks

References in periodicals archive ?

Officials of Gingoog City are offering a reward to any one who could identify or locate a woman suspected to have taken a newborn infant girl at a puericulture center in the town's Barangay 16 on Sunday (Sept 1).

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His parents, Khan and Shabana, his wife Arshi, daughter Sidra, 4, son Zaid, 2, and newborn infant son Nooh, were all swept away.

Body of sixth missing member of Asian family found

Summary: New Delhi [India], July 26 (ANI): A day after the body of a newborn infant was found on Guwahati-Delhi Air Asia flight, the Delhi police on Thursday registered an FIR in the connection.

Foetus found in Air Asia: Police registers FIR

They also had the chance to help a newborn infant with massive life-threatening conditions.

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[5] American Academy of Pediatrics Subcommittee on Hyperbilirubinemia, "Management of hyperbilirubinemia in the newborn infant 35 or more weeks of gestation," Pediatrics, vol.

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For the study, reported in the journal Current Biology, the team enrolled healthy, newborn infant boys and girls from the postnatal ward and special care baby unit and measured the babies' stress levels based on salivary levels of cortisol stress hormone and heartbeat patterns, both before and after a clinically necessary heel lance.

Under stress, newborn babies show greater brain response to pain: Study

Coagulation system of newborn infant differs from older children and adults in terms of many characteristics and it also changes with gestational age.

A rare case report: congenital hypofibrinogenaemia--a newborn infant with cord bleeding

In this memoir of escape from oppression and poverty, she describes her first two attempts to leave the country, for which she was imprisoned, and her third and successful attempt with her newborn infant. She also describes her new life in South Korea and Canada.

Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman's Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom

The ECtHR explained that it also found the state guilty of the death of the newborn infant because of insufficient organization and services at the public hospital involved, explaining that care providers refused to provide medical treatment altogether.

ECtHR unanimously finds Turkey guilty in baby's death

The mother of a newborn infant had doubted it was hers when she was handed a child by one of the nurses.

Three nurses sacked for switching of babies at birth

New parents should be aware that parenting philosophies that encourage the use of strict routine and infant independence are largely scientifically untested and could be incompatible with breastfeeding.] "However, we also know that caring for a newborn infant can be very tiring.