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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 [...]
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My son was born in Korea. When I had my baby shower, another expatriate friend of mine told me how after delivering three babies overseas, she went home so she could have her fourth in an American hospital. But the baby had other plans, and emerged in the parking lot of a Piggly Wiggly grocery [...]
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A recent study showed that premature infants from low-income families don’t get the health care they need. This problem is commonly observed in extremely premature babies born at less than 3.3 pounds. These infants are vulnerable to vision, hearing and speech impairments.
According to researchers at the Boston University’s School of Medicine, babies born as early [...]
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Research has taken place at Washington University into what is the optimum time spacing between pregnancies for healthy babies. The results have been published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The results indicated that a gap of six months or less between pregnancies can lead to to a 41% increase in the risk [...]
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