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Early Cord Clamping/Cord Blood Banking/Cord Care

Alcohol versus natural drying for newborn cord care. J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs. 1998 Nov-Dec;27(6):621-7

Banking Your Newborn’s Cord Blood

Birth Injuries Related to Umbilical Cord Clamping

Care in Normal Birth - Third Stage - The World Health Organization

CBR - Cord Blood Registry

Cord Closure: Can Hasty Clamping Injure the Newborn

Current Best Evidence: A Review of the Literature on Umbilical Cord Clamping

Delayed Cord Clamping

Delayed Cord Clamping at Birth May Reduce Neonatal Anemia

Don’t Cut the Cord

Early clamping of the umbilical cord: Severing all ties

Five Good Reason to Delay Clamping the Cord

Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood Banks

A Parent’s Guide to Cord Blood Banks - with emphasis on how to evaluate private bank services

Physiological Resuscitation: Placental Transfusion

SeattleBirthNet: Cord Clamping and Banking

Should I bank my baby’s umbilical cord blood?

To Clamp, or Not to Clamp, This is the Answer

Treatable Diseases and Future Uses of Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells


Eye Prophylaxis

The Bacterial Etiology of Conjunctivitis in Early Infancy

Complete Erythromycin Ointment Information from Drugs.com

Erythromycin Ointment - Material Safety Data Sheet

Erythromycin (Ophthalmic)

Erythromycin Ophthalmic Ointment - Drug Digest

Eye Care and Prevention of Ophthalmia Neonatorum

Neonatal Ocular Prophylaxis - Is it necessary and effective?

Neonatal Eye Care

Dr. Jay Gordon - Neonatal Eye Care

Newborn Eye Ointment

Randomized Trial of Silver Nitrate, Erythromycin, and No Eye Prophylaxis


Hepatits B Vaccination

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A User-Friendly Vaccination Schedule

ENGERIX-B [Hepatitis B Vaccine (Recombinant)] Package Insert

Hepatitis B Vaccine Dangers

Immunization Action Coalition and Hepatitis B Coalition - Working to Increase Immunizations

Incidence of Hep B Virus in the US

Merck - Vaccine Packet Insert

Newborn Hepatitis B Vaccine

Recommended Childhood and Adolescent Immunization Schedule United States, 2005

Summary of Recommendations for Childhood and Adolescent Immunization 2006

Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) FAQ

Vaccination Liberation’s Fact Sheet on Hep B

Warning: New Hepatitis Vaccine Recs Can Devastate Newborn’s Health - Dr. Mercola


Newborn Hearing Screening

AAA: Early Infant Hearing Screening & Intervention

AAA: Newborn Hearing Screening FAQ

CDC: Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Program, EHDI, NCBDDD, CDC

CDC: Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Program FAQ

Georgia: Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention (UNHSI)

How Does Newborn Hearing Screening Testing Work?

My Baby’s Hearing

NCHAM: Newborn Hearing & Infant Hearing EHDI Resources and Information

Quick Reference: Hearing Loss - March of Dimes

Tennessee: Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention (UNHSI)

Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Fact Sheet

Where do we go from Hear? Information for families of infants and children diagnosed with a hearing loss


Newborn Screening - Phenylketonuria (PKU)

Expanded Newborn Screening Using Tandem Mass Spectromety

Georgia Newborn Screening

Georgia Newborn Screening Information

Phenylketonuria - Definition

Quick Reference: Newborn Screening Tests - March of Dimes

Screening Problems

Supplemental Newborn Screening - Baylor Health Care System

Supplemental Newborn Screening - Frequently Asked Questions

Supplemental Newborn Screening - Mayo

Tennessee Department of Health - Genetics and Newborn Screening Program

Tennessee Newborn Screening Information


Vitamin K

AAP Policy Statement - Controversies Concerning Vitamin K and the Newborn

Administration of Vitamin K to Newborn

AquaMEPHYTON (Vitamin K) - Merck & Co. package insert

Are breast-fed infants vitamin K deficient?

Bio-K-Mulsion - Oral Vitamin K

eMedicine - Hemorrhagic Disease of Newborn

General Discussion of Oral Vitamin K instead of Injected Vitamin K

Hemorrhagic Disease of the Newborn (Vitamin K Deficiency)

The Risk of Childhood Cancer after Neonatal Exposure to Vitamin K

Routine Administration of Vitamin K to Newborns - Canada

Treatise on Vitamin K

Vitamin K?

Vitamin K - An Alternative Perspective

Vitamin K at Birth: To Inject or Not

Vitamin K: Controversy? What Controversy?

Vitamin K Prophylaxis in the Newborn - has some guidelines for oral

Vitamin K 1 - Oral Vitamin K

Vitamin K - What is it?


“All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable

to assume in practically every human being, and certainly

in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or

towards the actualization” 

~Abraham Maslow ~

Routine Medical Procedures for the Newborn