Conception Pregnancy guide Birth The first year Children All Articles

Top 5 rated articles

	Your dominant sense

	Weight loss by age: your needs

	Sexual pleasure in 20 questions

	Test: How do you control your emotions?

	Test: What does your home say about you?

Team BLOG

	Dressing up, token efforts, Olly Murs and party season... This week we've discovered women can be divided into four types when it comes to fancy dress: There...

Read on

Home / Parenting / Birth

Caring for premature babies

Article in images

Between the 7th and 8th month

Babies born between the 7 and 8th month are more 'robust' and can breathe unaided, but they might still have respiratory problems. Some will be able to take breast milk and some won't yet.

They are cared for in a neo-natal or Special Baby Care Unit.

Sarah Horrocks
21/03/2009

	Send this page to a friend

Rank this page:

Article Plan Caring for premature babies ▼

Reasons for premature birth

- Medical
- Accidental
- Socio-economic

Different stages of premature birth

- Before the 6th month
- Between the 6th and 7th month
- Between the 7th and 8th month

Problems with premature babies

- Immature respiratory system
- Immature digestive system
- Immature thermoregulatory system
- Immature imune system

Hospital care

- Incubator
- Ventilator
- Feeding tube
- Ultrasound scanning
- How long for?
- The parents' role
- Skin-on-skin contact

As your premature baby grows up...

- The first year
- Later on

» See all our readers' comments (0)

Email this page to a friend

Latest…

08/11/2009

Guides

Videos

	Cervical stitching (cerclage) Cervical stitching is a procedure for pregnant women who have a weak cervix...

	Gestational diabetes Some pregnant women experience diabetes during their pregnancy: this is known as gestational diabetes...

	Pelvic floor exercises Pelvic floor exercises restore the strength and elasticity of the pelvic floor...

	Getting back in shape after pregnancy Find out what you should be doing over the weeks following the...

See all Parenting guides

	Video: Dr Chris Steele on preparing for pregnancy Dr Chris Steele brings us his 8-point list of steps to take to help couples conceive.

See all Parenting videos

This week: Food & Drink Special : recipes from A to Z, by country, by duration, by type - Surnames - E-cards
auFeminin Group:	auFeminin - enFemenino - alFemminile - goFeminin - soFeminine - Teemix - Joyce - Voyage Bons Plans - Santé AZ - Marmiton - Marmiton.es - Marmiton.it - Marmikid - Tiboo - Recettes de Valérie - Noms de famille - Toutes les villes - Parcours-Gourmand - Onmeda - HerVietnam

Between the 7th and 8th month - Caring for premature babies

Between the 7th and 8th month