Fundamentals of care in weighing the newborn

Purpose: to describe, comparatively, two representative images of the weighing procedure of newborns contained in works from 1949 and 2011. Methodology: The study proposes comparative history. Results and discussion: In the publication of 1949, a marked concern was identified in the newborn with quantitative images used to handle it, which is distinctly identifiable in 2011, when it is pointed out the concern with the Weighing technique directed to the sheet. Conclusion: From the visualization of the mosaics, it was evidenced that in 1949, the newborn was the greatest point of importance of direct care; While in 2011, it is inferred to be the technological instrument that deserves visual prominence. In this way, the present study brings to the fore reflections that allow margins for future research on how similar, or not, it would be possible to point out the care performed in an observational aspect of the past in the present in neonatology care.