November 18 is Prematurity Awareness Day.
I am one of those moms who had firsthand experience with prematurity. My twin boys were born 5 weeks early 6 years ago. Even though they’ve grown to be healthy boys, we had to struggle with low birth weight and health problems during the first year of their lives.
This is [...]
Tags: March of Dimes, preemies, prematurity, preterm births, preterm delivery
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Two research studies on the health of premature babies. One gives promising results, the other gives disappointing outcomes.
This research gives hope to parents of preemies. Researchers at the University of Adelaide, Australia found that a fatty acid in the brain is not well-developed when babies are born before the 33rd week of pregnancy. The lipid [...]
Tags: Health, preemies, premature, Research
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Infant mortalities in the US is on the decline (or at least it used to). In 1900, infant mortality rate was 100 deaths per 1000 live births. A hundred years after, in 2000, the rate was 6.86 per 1000 live births. However, this decline seems to have leveled off and the rate in 2005 is [...]
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Is there no end to the disadvantages of being a preemie? I am a scientist and I believe in science. But the scientific findings that point towards future problems for babies born premature are just so overwhelming that they can break a mother’s heart.
First, there are the health problems – from respiratory distress to autism [...]
Tags: autism, health problems, preemies, premature babies, Social Skills
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This one really breaks my heart – newborn babies in intensive care units are in pain and medical care is not doing enough to ease it.
The study published in the July 2 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association analyzed 42,413 painful procedures performed on 430 newborns. And the results are equally painful [...]
Tags: intensive care, medications, pain, pain relief, preemies, procedures
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