Everything you didn’t know about having a premature baby - that you should.
Premature Birth of the baby is when the baby's birth takes place more than three weeks before the baby's estimated due date i.e. the baby born before 37 weeks of pregnancy is considered premature or born too early. Also known as Preterm or Preemie Baby. Premature babies are often born with moderate to complicated medical problems. So the earlier the baby is born, the higher the risk of complications.
According to WHO, every year 15 million babies are born as a premature baby i.e. more than 1 in 10 babies. Approximately 1 million children die each year due to complications of preterm birth. Many survivors face a lifetime of disability, including learning disabilities and visual and hearing problems.
A. Kangaroo mother care is a method for care of preterm infants. Snuggling a baby skin-to-skin is a marsupial-inspired parenting practice that comes with many substantial benefits right from the start and continuing throughout the NICU stay and beyond.
A. Some of the ways to bond with preemie in the NICU are Kangaroo Care , talk to them , see eye-to-eye, touch and feel them , sing to them and photograph them.
A. The time that babies stay in NICU depends on how early they were born and how sick they have been. Some babies need less than a week in intensive care, but some may need up to 10 weeks and sometimes even more.
A. A feeding tube is used for babies who are very young and have developed the reflex to tolerate milk feeding but does not have the strength to breastfeed or drink from bottle. These babies are fed by gavage.
A. Babies who are born between 28 to 34 weeks of pregnancy are fed by gavage. It is a method where a small flexible gavage tube is placed into the baby's mouth or nose passed down to the stomach. A small amount of pumped, fortified breast milk or formula is fed through the tube every few hours.
A. Babies born below 28 weeks of pregnancy are very small and sick. These babies cannot tolerate milk feeding and so they continue to receive the nutrition through their IV feeding. IV feeding will continue until the baby can tolerate milk feedings.
A. Premature babies start small but they do tend to catch up with other kids as they get older. Babies born very prematurely still tend to be smaller and lighter than their classmates but that is not always the case.
A. Some of long term health risks faced by premature babies are Learning disabilities , Cerebral Palsy , Hearing and Vision Impairment and Respiratory Problems.
A. Yes Preemies often take a little extra time to develop both gross and fine-motor skills and baby/ toddler milestones such as rolling over, sitting up and taking the first step.
A. Your baby is probably not behind at all. He is probably where a baby conceived when he was should be. Your Baby was just a little more than minus 2 months old at birth. At 2 months of age, he was equivalent to a newborn. So at 4 months, he is more like a 2 month old. So kindly don’t compare your baby with other children his age or with average on development charts.
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