Parents tell the nurse they have been told to keep their newborn away from windows. The rationale that the nurse should provide to the parents to make them understand that it is necessary is that because babies cannot shiver to generate heat, parents must keep them covered and away from heat-loss areas like windows.
Due to their incapacity to generate heat through muscle movement or shivering and having to rely on the metabolism of brown fat, babies have trouble controlling their body temperatures.
Brown fat is present in newborns weighing less than 8 pounds. Skin is not thin on newborns.
Windows can be troublesome since there is a chance for convective heat loss, so infants should always be covered with a thin blanket in their cot if it is not next to a window.
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