Premature Infancy
Title: Premature Infancy
Category: /Recreation & Sports/Health Care
Details: Words: 1307 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Premature Infancy
Category: /Recreation & Sports/Health Care
Details: Words: 1307 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Premature babies, otherwise known as preterm babies, or preemies, are babies that
are born earlier than the full-term of thirty-eight to forty-two weeks of pregnancy. These
babies are generally born between the twentieth and thirty-eighth week. Almost 250,000
babies, nearly seven percent of newborns, are premature(Golant 4). Prematurity, even
with all the advances in technology, is still a major cause of fetal and neonatal death.
Actually, around seventy-five percent of perinatal deaths are due to a
showed first 75 words of 1307 total
You are viewing only a small portion of the paper.
Please login or register to access the full copy.
Please login or register to access the full copy.
showed last 75 words of 1307 total
begins to
think about bearing children, there will not be much of a risk of having a premature baby.
Works Cited
Freeman, Roger, and Pescar, Susan. 'Safe Delivery: Protecting Your Baby During High-
Risk Pregnancy. New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1982.
Golant, Susan and Ludington, Susan. Kangaroo Care The Best You Can Do To Help
Your Preterm Infant. New York: Bantam Books, 1993.
Griesemer, Bernard and Pfister, Fred. The Littlest Baby. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-
Hall Inc., 1983.


