Neonatology Africa

04/09/2025

Feeding protocols and nurses help NICU mothers, providing guidelines on how to give fortified feeds, how to feed premature babies, and when to feed their babies. They also emphasise the importance of maintaining consistency in feeds to help babies grow healthier in the NICU.

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02/09/2025

Neonatal Jaundice can be common in premature babies and treated efficiently once an easy, quick bilirubin test, physical examination to check for yellowing of skin and eyes, and a transcutaneous bilirubinometer test, a non-invasive skin measurement of bilirubin levels, have been completed.

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26/08/2025

Every baby deserves the tender loving care nurses and doctors give to families in ALMC NICU. Premature and critically ill babies journey with the medical team from the delivery room to home; some journeys are a few days, and some can be months. We gently hold the tiny hands of babies as they grow. We hold the hands of tiny hands of babies as they grow.

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29/07/2025

NICU training today led by Dr Eunice and the NICU team, learning UVC placement on a premature baby born today, 27 weeks, with Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS).

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11/05/2025

Happy mothers day 😍.

16/04/2025

Mothers in ALMC NICU practice Kangaroo Care. Their tiny babies benefit greatly from the warmth of skin-skin care, which regulates heart rate, temperature, and breathing. It stimulates milk production, improves weight gain, increases bonding between mothers and fathers and their babies, strengthens immunity, and is a low-cost, highly effective solution for premature babies.

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10/04/2025

NICU Nurse workshops at TFBS African Neonatology Conference learning how to bundle babies and create warm, cosy nests to help maintain body temperature and weight gain for premature babies.

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23/11/2024

How we help babies breathe and keep babies warm is important. Lectures on gentle, low-cost non-invasive methods of respiratory support and thermoregulation help improve care in the NICU.

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Assessing Causes of Respiratory Distress in the Newborn
Scott O. Guthrie, MD, FAAP

Noninvasive Respiratory Support in the Newborn
Rangasamy Ramanathan MBBS, MD, FAAP
Carlos G. Ramos, MD, FAAP

Kangaroo Care: A simple way to save lives
Henna Shaikh, MD

Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS)
and the role of pulmonary surfactant
Kari Roberts, MD

Too much of a good thing: Oxygen toxicity
Henna Shaikh, MD

Every Breath Counts: Lessons Learned in Developing a Training NICU in Tanzania
Stephen J. Swanson, MD, FAAP

Thermoregulation
Helga Naburi, MD,Mmed,MPH,PhD

20/11/2024

Dr Stephen Swanson shares lessons learned during the Tiny Feet, Big Steps African Neonatology Conference 2024—a powerful message of hope and courage.

Opening Lecture of the Tiny Feet, Big Steps 2024 African Neonatology Conference by Dr Stephen Swanson

06/11/2024

Celebrating the ALMC NICU nurses, medical teams, and ICHA founder Dr. Stephen Swanson attending the TFBS Neonatology Conference 2024. Thank you for your dedication, compassion, and care for tiny babies and their families in Tanzania.

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📷 Angel Mathews (NICU Nurse)

29/10/2024

TFBS2024 on ITV Tanzania 🇹🇿. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

27/10/2024

TFBS Neonatology Conference is a journey of reciprocity, a process of listening in reflection, acknowledging challenges, investigating adaptable and practical low-cost, high-quality, innovative solutions, sharing experience and knowledge and nurturing potential in medical teams through quality improvement.

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