ABSTRACT

CASE 11.1 – My newborn baby is yellow. A 3-day-old term baby is noted to be yellow by his mother. He is breast-fed and is making slow progress.

CASE 11.2 – My 3-week-old baby is still jaundiced. A 3-week-old girl was noted by the health visitor to have persisting jaundice. She is still breast-fed, but has not yet regained her birth weight.