Newborn Screening Test

Cord-Blood Banking: collecting and storing the blood from within the umbilical cord (the part of the placenta that delivers nutrients to a fetus) after a baby is born.

• Common Diagnosis in the NICU: babies may be sent to the NICU because they're born prematurely or difficulties occur during their deliveries or they show signs of a problem in the first few days of life. Some things that can be found are Anemia, Apnea, Bradycardia, Hydrocephalus.

• Meconium Aspiration: can happen before, during, or after labor. when a newborn inhales a mixture of meconium and amniotic fluid (the fluid in which the baby floats inside the amniotic sac). 

• Three screenings: some screening tests that a newborn may get is a hearings screening, sickle cell screening and MSUD.

• PKU screening test: the PKU screening test detects if the baby has a metabolic disorders, phenylketonuria. 

This is a PKU screening