Jun 15 2007
Preterm and Low-birthweight Infants
I chose this week to talk about preterm and low-birthweight infants. A preterm infant is any baby that is born before or at the 38th week of the pregnancy, 11% of babies born in the United States are delivered earlier that that. These infants are at a significantly increased risk of sickness and even fatality. But, the determining factor as to how much the risk is increased is how much the child weighs when it is delivered. If they are considered low-birthweight babies then that risk is very high. In fact, most newborn deaths in the United States are due to complications because of low-birthweight. Those deaths can typically be caused by infections or decreased ability to take in oxygen because their lungs are not developed which can cause respiratory distress syndrome. Newborns who develop respiratory distress syndrome are usually put in incubators so that oxygen can be closely observed.
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Both my brother and I were Low-birthweight babies and luckily neither one of us have any complications now that we are older. My brother was born 2 months early and he weighed 1 pound and some ounces and I weighed 3 pounds and some ounces. My brother had to stay in the hospital for two months and the majority of the time he was in a incubator. Your blog just reminded me that both my brother and I were low-birthweight babies and thankfully we both made it unlike many of other babies. I believe that there are many reasons as to why babies are born early and not all of them are bad because many people associate low-birthweight babies or premature babies to drugs or alcohol or something negative. That wasn’t the case for my brother and I.
Your blog was very interesting. After reading the blog I starting thinking about all the people that work with the premature babies. 11% of the babies born is a good sized group. I would think it would difficult to work with some cases. I did research and find a site, premature-infant.com and read a success story about a little girl named Mackenize. She started off so hard, but is really doing well now. I just think it would be very difficult, as a nurse, watching and caring for families going through this.