Newborn Medicine

The Newborn Medicine team provides family-centered care for newborns rooming in with their parents on the Postpartum and Birth Center units at UC San Diego Health  - Jacobs Medical Center. Working together with our obstetric care partners, nurses and ancillary staff, we have achieved high rates of exclusive breast feeding at discharge and have been recognized by the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative and United Nations Children's Fund as a "Baby-Friendly" birth facility.​

Our team, consisting of general pediatricians and pediatric nurse practitioners, is dedicated to training the next generation of doctors in the appropriate management of well newborns. Residents and medical students from the UCSD School of Medicine learn about routine newborn care, breastfeeding, car seat safety, and a variety of newborn medical conditions. ​

The Newborn Medicine team promotes a family-centered, baby-friendly birthing environment which includes:​

  • Early and frequent skin-to-skin contact​
  • Breastfeeding starting within the first hour of life and on demand​
  • Delayed first bath to maintain a healthy microbiome​
  • Administration of Vitamin K, Erythromycin Eye Ointment and Hepatitis B vaccine while breastfeeding or skin-to-skin​
  • All routine care delivered at parent's bedside including hearing test, heelstick for California Newborn Screen and daily examinations​
  • Pasteurized donor human milk as nutritional option when maternal milk supply is less than infant's needs

Give to the UCSD Newborn Medicine Lullaby League here

To learn more about birthing options and newborn services at UC San Diego Health, please visit the UC San Diego Health website for Postpartum Care.


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