Your Pregnancy

A-Z GUIDE to your new baby

A APGAR stands for appearance, pulse, grimace, activity and respiration. This is a test done immediately after birth, to check a baby’s health. Each of the five is scored on a scale of 0 to 2, with 2 being the best score.

B BABY ACNE often develops within two to four weeks after birth and looks worse when a baby is fussing or crying. Don’t pick – it usually goes away on its own.

is generally determined by paediatricians by using the “rule of threes”: crying bouts that start when a baby is about 3 weeks old (usually late in the day, although they can occur anytime), the cry lasts more than three hours aday, on more than three days aweek, for more than three weeks in a row. It is

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