Premature Babys - Articles
November is Premature Baby Awareness Month
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Glenna M.
Photo from www.marchofdimes.com Over 13 MILLION babies are born prematurely in the world every year with the highest preterm births in Africa and Asia. 600,000 of those babies are born the United States. Rates of premature birth have risen 36% in the U.S. over the last 25 years. 28% of the 4 million neonatal deaths each year are contributed dir ...
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How Relationships Cope with the Death of a Premature Baby
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Noah R.
A GoodTherapy.org News Update Presented by Jolyn Wells-Moran, PhD, MSWAccording to a new research study, couples who lose a premature baby and communicate their personal grief with each other fare better than couples who don’t. The researchers indicate that couples who don’t communicate with each other about their bereavement frequently ...
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High Risks Of Learning Difficulties For Premature Babies
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Nick B.
Doctors now have the capability to deliver babies that are only at 20 weeks - half the full term of a standard pregnancy. However, an ethical question mark overhangs the consequences of such a premature birth, with high numbers of babies developing a wide range of problems later on, including an inability to walk along with learning difficulties at ...
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Premature Infants May Have Lifelong Problems
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Lyn S.
Pregnancy is supposed to last 40 weeks, but increasingly US babies are born prematurely, 13% born before 37 weeks. Newsweek describes an NEJM study indicating lifelong developmental delays and other complications affect many of these babies. The article also asks experts who's having premature babies, why, and what mothers can do before and durin ...
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Parents with NICU Babies Can Suffer Postpartum PTSD
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Katherine S.
Richard Shaw, MD, a child psychiatrist at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital and an associate professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, is studying post-traumatic stress disorder among moms and dads whose infants stayed in a NICU. We've known that moms whose children spend time in the NICU, or whose children are born with birth defec ...
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Behavior problems seen in children born premature - Yahoo! News
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Rudy S.
This article is about premature babies and future behavioral problems Link: Behavior problems seen in children born premature - Yahoo! News.NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who were born extremely preterm -- after only 25 weeks of pregnancy or early -- are more likely to have emotional and behavior problems than their peers who were born at ful ...
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Premature births lead to wide-ranging disabilities
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Drs. Fernettte & Brock E.
This new report shows that a staggering 72% percent of extremely premature babies have learning difficulties detectable by the age of 6, yet most of the school-age children we see who were born premature were 'dismissed' from Developmental Clinic before they even entered preschool. Because 1 in 10 births are premature, the learning challenges of th ...
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DHA Helps Brain Development of Premature Girls
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DiseaseProof
A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals increased DHA intake in premature babies improved the neurodevelopment of girls. Scientists gave breastfeeding mothers a DHA supplement or a placebo. The breast milk of the supplement group had .85% concentration of total fatty acids. The placebo group was only .25%. Researchers ...
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