Important Information for Parents of Newborns
- Be sure to add baby onto your insurance within 31 days from the date of birth.
- Never heat the bottle in the microware, always heat with warm water.
- Set hot water heater temperature control to 120˚.
- Do not add extra water to formula.
- Place baby on their back to sleep.
- It is appropriate to place the baby on their stomach while they are awake & under supervision in order for them to develop head control.
- Baby should be in a car seat in the back seat of the car facing backwards and never left in the car unsupervised.
- Never shake the baby.
- Do not give Tylenol until 2 months of age.
- Call office for temperatures >100.4.
- Breast fed babies should be fed every 2-3 hours during the day & every 3-4 hours at night. Formula fed babies should be fed every 3-4 hours.
- Circumcisions should be dressed with Neosporin or Vaseline & gauze until well healed, if not using the plastibell.
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