Pre-School Information for Parents

When a baby is born prematurely, often spend time confined in the neonatal care unit to assist and help complete their development and is in suitable condition to survive in the outside world. Parents of premature babies, but can do many things to connect with their children while they are hospitalized in neonatology will of course not in being able to finally bring home.

What are the patterns of development that must reach a premature baby before being discharged?
Breathing without assistance

One of the first scope of development that the baby must achieve is the ability to breathe and keep your body oxygen levels without mechanical assistance or oxygen be administered externally. It is very common for babies born prematurely require ventilation for a while, some less, some more.

Overcoming apnea of ​​prematurity

Apnea of ​​prematurity is a common condition in babies born before term, in which case respiratory apnea (brief interruptions of breathing) and tachycardia (heart rhythm disorder). In the neonatal unit patterns are monitored heart rate and breathing the baby constantly. Often past 36 weeks of gestation these episodes cease; to some babies may be discharged wearing a monitor of apnea.

Ability to feed orally

When born prematurely, babies can not fully coordinate the ability to suck and swallow food, which happens after 34 weeks of gestation. Yet after that time sometimes the little premature do not have the strength to take the breast properly. Initially in the nursery were fed through a small tube, until they have the strength to take the breast or bottle. It is important that a baby is fully able to eat by mouth to be discharged so as not to compromise their weight gain.

Stability of body temperature

Premature babies are kept at a temperature in incubators or skin with his mom using kangaroo care because they can not naturally regulate their body temperature even. This capability is necessary for data to be high, usually acquired when the baby is over 2 kilos of body weight.

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