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    Kangaroo Mother Care Benefits Preemies' Brains

    Kangaroo Mother Care - a technique in which a breastfed premature infant remains in skin-to-skin contact with the parent's chest rather than being placed in an incubator - has lasting positive impact on brain development, revealed Universite Laval researchers in the October issue of Acta...
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    Steroids Increase Viability Of Preemies As Young As 22 Weeks

    With chubby cheeks and weighing in at a healthy 10 pounds, the imminently huggable Lexi Morrison is far removed from the 1-pound, 9 ounce preemie she was in June when she was born premature at 24 weeks. And had it not been for antenatal corticosteroids provided by the University of Alabama at...
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    Life-Threatening Condition In Preemies Linked To Blood Type

    Many premature infants suffer a life-threatening destruction of intestinal tissue called necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Now a Loyola University Medical Center study has identified a major risk factor for NEC: Preemies with the AB blood type who develop NEC are nearly three times as likely to...
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    Should all preemies be given healthy bacteria?

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    Should all preemies be given healthy bacteria?

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    Book about Preemies? I delivered my baby at 24 weeks weighing less than 2 lbs?

    i was thinking of writing a book about my experiance - do you think a book like that would be of interest to anyone? Thanks much
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