any1 had healthy premmy baby?

Question

Can a baby be born as early as 33-34 weeks and still be healthy enough to go home asap? Or has anyone here had a premature baby around this time and it being healthy enough to take home soon after?

Answer 1

Mine was 35 weeks, 5 lbs. 6 oz., healthy and stayed a week. At 33 weeks they have just barely developed their gag reflex so they are tube fed. And at that age is almost impossible for them to regulate their own body temperature. You can certainly have a healthy baby at that stage, but don't expect to go home right away. Good luck!

Answer 2

With medical advances, babies who are born early are often able to lead normal lives. Some are able to go home quite soon. Buy any baby born that early is going to be put into special care as the lungs are not fully developed. My nephew was born at 33 weeks and was in hospital for 4 weeks. He is still small and much smaller than his peers.
Babies that are born early do not have a good sucking reflex therefore they typically do not feed well and there are often problems with breastfeeding. My friend's baby was born 18 days early and within a week of being born he was back in hospital because he had been feeding so badly.

Any premature baby is going to need regular pediatric checks and will be monitored in a different way to other babies.

Answer 3

My daughter was born 36 years ago at 34 weeks and weighed 1kilo (2lb 2oz) was kept in the scbu in an incubator for 8 1/2 weeks and a cot for a week and was allowed home weighing 4 1/2 lbs and apart from a squint in one eye, corrected when she was 4 years old has never had a days illness and has 3 healthy children of her own now.

Answer 4

At 33 - 34 weeks a baby is still meant to be in utero and thus in a NICU the baby would be in an incubator to keep them warm (they have trouble regulating their temps), be kept in a dark and non stimulation environment (to minic the uterus) and tube fed (with a nasogastric tube preferable with expressed breast milk). The baby would also be monitored to ensure it has no episodes of apnoea(stops breathing), desaturations (dropping o2 levels) and braduycardia (slow heart rate) which babies at this gestational age tend to do (they are just immature).
Neural pathways are still developing at this age and they do this best in the uterus so mimicing the uterine environment gives the infant the best chance in later life. They are not encouraged at 33 weeks to bottle or breastfeed as their sucking is not properly established and bottle feeding will cause fatigue and eventual weight loss (as it is hard work to suck when you are 33 weeks). Typically a 33 weeks old will need to sleep 24 hours a day -if you take them home at this stage they will not wake for overnight feeds and thus lose weight. The babes will comes out of the incubator for short periods only usually to Kangaroo cuddle (baby naked except for nappy and placed against dad or moms chest to keep warm and then both are wrapped up).
The major problems for infants at 33 weeks are temp regulation, maintaining the blood sugar levels (thus regular feeds are necessary), apnoeas, brady's,desats and oxygen requirements.

I would not take my infant home at 33 weeks knowing what I do from caring from them in the NICU. I know it must be hard to leave them in there for the parents but we inform our parents that they will not be going home until term (38-40 weeks) and anything sooner than that is a blessing.

Things can go wrong very quickly for 33 weekers. Although theuy may look healthy and fine they are also unstable and need care.

Answer 5

My son was born at 34 weeks and is perfectly healthy now.
He was in the special care unit for 3 weeks before he could come home.
It depends on the individual baby but if they are born before 37 weeks they do not know how to suck and need to be tube fed which is why they have to stay in hospital until they learn how to feed.
They told me in the special care unit that at 37 weeks pregnant the baby brain develops the instinct to suck.

Answer 6

My mom had me at 7 months which is less than 33 weeks. I did have to stay in the hospital a month because one of my lungs wasn't developed but that was in 87 and they have better technology now. The good news is though is here I am 19 years later no big health problems, not even a broken bone and I'm now 22 weeks with my own little boy.

:-)

Answer 7

My other half's baby sister was born at 33 weeks, weighing about 2 or 3 pounds. Her mum had to have an emergency operation for gallstones and it sent her into prem. labour.

She went home after about a month in hospital but was so small she had to wear dolls' clothes!

She's now 15 years old, 5'10" tall and eats like a little horse, lol!!!

At our baby clinic there is a little lad who was born 14 weeks prem (26 weeks gestation)!!! He was tiny for the first few months of his life (at 5 or 6 months was only the size of a small newborn) and had to have special care for many months. But you should see him now at 10 months old! Hes the same size as my son (nine and a half months) and full of beans! I'm so glad to see he's doing well!!!

Answer 8

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Answer 9

My son was born at 35 weeks due to pre-eclampsia and was a big healthy boy, he didn't require any special treatment and we went home as soon as I was well enough.

My niece was born at 30 weeks, my sister had pre-eclampsia too but she also got something called Hellp syndrome and went into liver failure. My niece was small just under 3lb's but was very healthy, she was in an incubator for a week to stabilise her temperature but, apart from being fed through a tube directly to her stomach (this was to keep her from getting exhausted through sucking) she didn't need any medical intervention and was soon in a normal crib and then home soon after! She is now a big healthy 8 months old, eating, sleeping, laughing - totally normal and totally delicious!

Good luck with your baby!
xxx

Answer 10

I had a set of girl twins at 34 weeks, and they were both perfectly healthy. They were in NICU for a week only because there sucking instinct wasn't well enough for them to eat a full bottle on their own. But they were healthy, no medical problems what so ever! Good luck, I am sure all will be well!