Our unit was closed this week so we went to the nursery in the labor delivery unit. We took care of babies and watched nurses take their bloodwork. But the cool thing was watching them get a bath. They can't take a full bath because the umbilical cord stump dries up and falls off. For now they just wash their heads. Bathing the baby too much can dry out his/her skin. It reminded me of watching my aunt wash my baby cousin when he was born, and I learned a lot from watching her.
NEWBORN
ONCE THE UMBILICAL CORD STUMP IS OFF.