Maternal-Infant Program

Maternal-Infant visits are designed to provide specialized follow-up for mothers and infants with identified risks and complications following delivery. The nurse provides assessment of the mother and the newborn, patient education, healing, support for breast and/or bottle feeding, newborn care and psychosocial adaptation to parenthood. The program addresses complications caused by:

• early maternity discharge
• high-risk pregnancy
• hyperbilirubinemia
• premature infant
• medically fragile infant
• multiple births
• Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome
• teen parenting
• post-partum depression
• post-partum complications
• cesarean wound care