The nurse is teaching a new mother how to encourage a sleepy baby to breastfeed. Which of the following instructions would not be included in that teaching?
1. Providing skin-to-skin contact
2. Swaddling the newborn in a blanket
3. Unwrapping the newborn
4. Allowing the newborn to feel and smell the mother's breast
Question 2
The student nurse is to perform Leopold maneuvers on a laboring client. Which assessment requires intervention by the staff nurse?
1. The client is assisted into supine position, and the position of the fetus is assessed.
2. The upper portion of the uterus is palpated, then the middle section.
3. After determining where the back is located, the cervix is assessed.
4. Following voiding, the client's abdomen is palpated from top to bottom.
A mother nursing her young blends into a stand of deadwood.
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