Neonate Care C-section Post-op Care question

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I can't remember the question exactly.. but the mother has herpes and she had C-section to deliver the baby.

Post op care, what do you do with the neonate? I can only remember 2 choices that I was debating between:

1) Administer immunoglobulin (I know they get zidovudine sometimes in utero but not sure if they receive any special treatment/injection post-op)

2) Place the baby in isolation (I chose this one because neonate is immunosuppressed d/t zidovudine effect-- question didn't mention zidovudine although I'm thinking they must have given it in utero d/t mother's history? Am I thinking too much? Also at this stage neonate is very vulnerable as well)

If it's neither of these 2 answers then I must have gotten the q wrong =[ Kaplan's pretest did not reveal answers.

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