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Table 3 Activities mothers participated in while in the NCU

From: Mothers’ perceptions and experiences of caring for sick newborns in Newborn Care Units in public hospitals in Eastern Uganda: a qualitative study

Routine interventions

More complex interventions

• Removing baby off oxygen when the power goes

• Breastfeeding

• Checking to see if oxygen is flowing in the prongs

• Wiping baby-bathing

• Notifying HWs when a baby has a danger sign

• Reminding nurses to give their babies medication

• Feeding in Nasal gastric tube

• Taking babies for medication

• Expressing milk

• Watching over the baby

• Using syringes to feed through the Nasal gastric tube

 
  1. Medical interventions: these are typically done by health care providers’ and require a level of medical judgment to be performed satisfactorily
  2. The non-medical interventions are those that mothers typically do are non-invasive
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Reproductive Health

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