CRP and Intraventricular hemorrhage: Meanwhile, conditions where there is spurious increase in level of CRP such as meconium aspiration syndrome (MAS), premature infant exposure to glucocorticoids, maternal fever during labor, fetal distress, prolonged labor, perinatal asphyxia, and intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH), thus making it a non-specific biomarker for diagnosis of neonatal sepsis (24, 25).