Preterm birth
Jul. 12th, 2008 01:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theatokosI found this segment on preterm birth. It's well done and talks about some of the issues at play, as well as shows you inside a NICU. To put my experience in perspective, this NICU is nicer than mine at Kaiser Oakland. The babies in this segment are also on the healthy end of things. While in the NICU I saw, more often than not, very sick babies. At one point in my month in the NICU Kaiser Oakland had a shortage of bed spaces and was turning people away AND the mean age (not average) of the babies there was 25 weeks.
At the beginning of the segment the March of Dimes lady says that about half of all preterm births are mysteries - no one knows exactly why it occurs. I fell into this category. Benn, miraculously, does not have a single structural or developmental issue, other than being small and low on body fat.
[cross posted to July DDCs]
At the beginning of the segment the March of Dimes lady says that about half of all preterm births are mysteries - no one knows exactly why it occurs. I fell into this category. Benn, miraculously, does not have a single structural or developmental issue, other than being small and low on body fat.
[cross posted to July DDCs]