HOW IS YOUR BABY DOING NOW TIPS ON WHAT TO EXPECT FROM SOME ONE WHO HAS HAD A PREMATURE BABY FROM 24-31WEEKS
2006-10-12 10:16:57 · 4 answers · asked by bluueeyed2 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
Are they in the NICU? Spend time with them. Talk softly, keep it as dimly lit as possibly. Developmentally, alot of things are still happening. The brain has not fully developed, connections are still being made. The lungs are still developing. Make their surroundings as close to the womb as possible. After all, in order for these developmental milestones to occur, there needs to be as little stress as possible. Because there are no bright lights or loud sounds (only the muffled sound of mommy's voice, the digestion, lungs, heartbeat of mom, ect) in the womb, they can develop.
Kangaroo care has also been proven to help the baby. They have more normal sleeping and eating patterns, and gain more weight. This is basically skin-to-skin contact. Hold him or hear close to your skin, so they can hear you heartbeating and learn to maintain their own body temperature thru yours (something they need to be able to do in order to be released from the NICU)
The link below is for a great site, with the article titled, "Realities of a Premature Infant's First Year: Helping Parents Cope"
2006-10-12 10:47:44 · answer #1 · answered by Jacob & Adam's Mommy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I had my second baby girl at 29 weeks.
I had an incompetent cervix (meaning that my cervix dilated early) and my doctors expected my baby to be born early. I was given steroids to improve my baby's lungs and put on hospital bed rest at 24 weeks.
My beautiful baby girl was born at 29 weeks, 5 days, and she was perfect. We named her Elizabeth Nicole, and she was 3 lbs, 2 ozs at birth. The doctors put her on a ventilator for only 10 hours, and then she breathed on her own. Aside from the fact that we couldn't take her home right away, she was so small, and she was attached to so many monitors and a feeding tube, she was a normal baby. I watched her grow and change every day of her short stay in the hospital.
She was in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for a very short 6 weeks, and she came home at 4 lbs, 12 oz. She was big enough to nurse, keep her body temp at 98*, and cry!! Now (at 17 months) she is a big, (at 21 lbs, and 27''), sassy, beautiful little girl! I love her more than my life. I feel like the two of us have been through so much together, there is nothing else that we can ever go through that could be worse. I would give her anything...short of free reign!!!
Lisa has done so well...just outside my body (without her even knowing it)...I can't imagine anything she couldn't accomplish with my guidance!
2006-10-12 17:43:58 · answer #2 · answered by ninn09262 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depnds on the baby!
I was born at about 30 weeks back in 1980. I deveoped a umbilcal hurnia. i was born with other issues but that was because of genetics not being early.
some baby are just small & grow to be fine other may have more issue. Chances are at this stage that regardless of isses at birth the baby would grow up to be compleatly healthy. I Did & now i am a mom to a compleatly healthy baby born at full term!
at that small one thing I can suggest is spending alot of time holding your baby as they are suppose to still be in the tummy & that bonding help them develope! & also breastfeed as they will need it more.
2006-10-12 17:27:38 · answer #3 · answered by bubbagaloosch 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i had one at 21 weeks old that did not make it but 20 minutes, i am very sure you will have great luck. i will say some prays for you and your baby, may god bless you both
2006-10-12 17:23:04 · answer #4 · answered by wisdom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋