Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Program on Knowledge of Antenatal Mothers Regarding Selected Newborn Danger Signs

Abstract

A healthy newborn is born at term between 38 and 42 weeks, cries immediately after birth, establishes independent respiration, quickly adopts with extrauterine environment. The newborn period includes the time from birth to 28 days of life.[1] During this time, newborns must make many physiological and behavioral adaptations to extrauterine life. A newborn baby’s survival depends on his ability to adapt to an extrauterine environment.[2]