2.6.1  Six to 24 hours’ visit and evaluation

• Check for danger signs in the newborn and in the mother
• Counsel the mother/family to keep the newborn warm
• Counsel the mother/family on optimal breastfeeding
• Check the baby’s umbilicus for bleeding
• Counsel the mother to keep umbilicus clean and dry and take infection prevention precautions
• Weigh the newborn, if not weighed at birth
• Immunize the newborn with oral polio vaccine (OPV) and BCG vaccine to protect against tuberculosis
• Give the newborn vitamin K, 1 mg (IM) if it has not been given before
• Give one capsule of 200,000 IU (International Units) vitamin A to the mother
• Counsel the lactating mother to take at least two more meals than usual every day.