Preemies??

Question

What is usually not right with preemies that is not like way serious?

Answer 1

I work with premature babies and there are many things that they need after birth. The less serious things are jaundice, which about 80% of premature babies will get. A lot of them will need an NG tube in their nose to feed them since some premature babies are not able to coordicate suck, swallow and breathing. Even for those who are able to nurse they will still sometimes need the NG tube because they burn too many calories while feeding and it takes too much energy. Another thing is that premature babies have a difficult time regulating their body temperature so they spend most of their day in an isolet that keeps them warm. These are all things that affect premature babies even at 34 or 35 weeks. Babies born from 23 -32 weeks have a whole other set of problems. Their lungs are not developed and they usually need to be on a ventilator. Their hearts usually are very weak and they have PDA's. The list goes on and on.

Answer 2

Hi, OK my son was born at 32 weeks 4lbs 2 oz.. He had jaundice, was in an isolate for 2 weeks. He needed to be fed by tube and did not tolerate his food so he was on a special IV with fattening stuff in it for a while. He was home three weeks after birth. After that he had intolerable bowel syndrome, very colicky, a bad cold that he had to be hospitalized for a week, his rectum did not grow as fast as the rest of him so stools would not come out on there own. (This was within the first few months home). Now at 10 1/2 months he is 22lbs, army crawling, pulling up half way, walking holding on to my hands, almost on a full table food diet. And very happy!

I hope this helped...why did you have a preemie?

Answer 3

preemies have a variety of issues that can be minor to serious to life threatening. Most of the minor things are small in size or eyes still shut when born. But I don't know one preemie who hasn't had issues with their lungs and dangerously low birth weight. I'd say giving birth prematurely is serious and there is nothing really minor about it.

Answer 4

I would have to agree with everything Melissa said below.
My twins were born @32 weeks. Although, they only had jaundice and it was for 2 days.

They were on a respirator, no heart monitor though. We did have to gavage feed them because they did not have the sucking down at this early age.

Let's see, my hubby and I gavage fed our twins for 8 days, then right before they were to leave the hospital, we began bottle feeding them. Baby A was not too keen at first on drinking from a bottle, it took her two days to get used to it; Baby B took right to the bottle, no problems whatsoever.

They had no complications at all before, during and after birth, they just happened to be born 7 weeks early. I say this because my OB was 'planning' on a 38 week delivery date anyway. So, 38-32=6 weeks yes, but this is because they were born one day shy of 33 weeks and being full term babies.

Today, they are 11 months and growing, crawling, sitting up and pulling up. They are not yet ready to walk and I am in no big rush to have them walk either. That would be more work for me...

They baby babble, they say Mama, Dada and have their two front and lower teeth.

So, I would say they are doing pretty good for being born early.

Hope this has helped you some.

Answer 5

it varies from baby to baby depending on the circumstances. however, common with a lot of preemies are eyesight, eating issues, breathing, jaundice, all of this easily treatable- like i said depends on all the circumstances. how early, prenatal care, and so on

Answer 6

They are of course smaller than full term babies, they develop slower than full term babies, they tend to be sickly like allergies, athsma, etc. Hope this helps!

Answer 7

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