Hospital to Home DVD

Hospital to Home
This comprehensive video will streamline your discharge procedure, saving time while providing thorough coverage of the topics essential to new parents. More than simply outlining warning signs, Hospital to Home guides parents through the steps of recovery, emotional and physical wellness, and all the facets of newborn care. Easy-to-understand explanations help parents meet the demands of caring for themselves as well as their newborns. Visual summaries of key concepts enhance retention. Narrated by an experienced mother with a newborn of her own, each segment imparts practical advice accompanied by footage of diverse families using the techniques in real-life situations.

Your parents will learn:

• When to call their health care provider
• Mother care for optimum recovery
• The importance of getting support
• The facts about lochia
• Pain management for after pains
• Simple ways to reduce the risk of infection
• Techniques for perineum and hemorrhoid healing
• How to combat the baby blues and cope with postpartum depression
• All about baby - breast and bottle feeding, crying, diaper changing, bathing, taking temperatures, and more
• Umbilical cord and circumcision care
• SIDS safety
• Tips for using car seats, and more

With Hospital to Home you will:

• Provide must-know information quickly and easily
• Emphasize the importance of rest and support
• Ease new parent anxieties
• Promote healing in the home
• Improve early parenting skills
• Give newborns a healthy start

Make this invaluable, information- packed video or dvd part of your standard discharge procedure. Ensure the continued health and well-being of mother and baby as they make the transition from "hospital to home." Total running time 31 minutes, for ages 13 to adult. Released 2002.