Premature brain and little body fat makes it difficult for the baby to retain heat, so
preterm babies lose body heat more rapidly than a full - term baby.
Not exact matches
In fact, I was a nervous wreck; terrified I would
lose another
baby to
preterm labor again.
We used reliable methods to assess the quality of the evidence and looked at seven key outcomes:
preterm birth (birth before 37 weeks of pregnancy); the risk of
losing the
baby in pregnancy or in the first month after birth; spontaneous vaginal birth (when labour was not induced and birth not assisted by forceps; caesarean birth; instrumental vaginal birth (births using forceps or ventouse); whether the perineum remained intact, and use of regional analgesia (such as epidural).
Women were less likely to experience
preterm birth, and they were also at a lower risk of
losing their
babies.
Once they're well,
preterm babies often make up for
lost time in weight gain.
Losing a child — be it involving miscarriage,
preterm labor, abortion, birth defects, stillbirth, or the death of a
baby — is one of the most difficult life experiences we can have.
In fact, eating a lot of junk puts you and your
baby at risk for
preterm labor, low birth weight, gestational diabetes, a
baby with a predisposition to be overweight and a very hard time for you to
lose your pregnancy weight, which often adds to the risk of postpartum depression.