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Premature Infancy
Title: Premature Infancy
Category: Recreation & Sports / Health Care
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Premature Infancy
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 1339 total…
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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.
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