Sentences with phrase «term infant before»

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She served two terms as a Judge on the DC Contract Appeals Board before joining the District Office of the Attorney General, procurement division, with responsibility for acquiring services and goods for the District's Human Services Department (infant and maternal, HIV, mentally ill, and elderly divisions) and Public Housing Department.

Infants born before the 37th week of pregnancy are premature, which places them at a higher risk for complications than full - term babies, explains HealthyChildren.org, a website published by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

In terms of infant sleep, we need to know how often controlled crying was used in an average week, how many weeks or months that the parents employed these techniques, and in an average episode how many minutes elapsed before the parents responded to their babies.

Preterm infants are at increased risk of SIDS, 12,13 and the association between prone sleep position and SIDS among low birth weight infants is equal to, or perhaps even stronger than, the association among those born at term.14 Preterm infants and other infants in the NICU should be placed in the supine position for sleep as soon as the infant is medically stable and significantly before the infant's anticipated discharge, by 32 weeks» postmenstrual age.15 NICU personnel should endorse safe - sleeping guidelines with parents of infants from the time of admission to the NICU.

Inclusion criteria: live, singleton, term or near term infant delivered in 12 h before recruitment; women ≥ 21 years residing in defined study area, intending to breastfeed and with satisfactory home circumstances (assessed by postpartum nurses)

The infants were born at least 10 weeks before they reached full term and were evaluated close to the dates they were supposed to have been born.

Eighty percent of the infants born before 37 week and 30 percent of the full - term infants had levels of four phthalate metabolites in their urine that exceeded adult guidelines, based on hormone effects, set by the European Food Safety Authority.

After adjusting for maternal age, education, race / Hispanic ethnicity, marital status, previous live birth, insurance status before pregnancy, method of delivery and maternal length of hospital stay, late preterm infants (34 - 36 weeks) were significantly less likely to sleep on their backs compared to term infants.

Remember that RESPs are medium - term investments: even if you open an account when your child is an infant (and most parents do not) you are not likely to have more than 18 years before you start drawing it down.

For birth weight, assignment to FF was associated with higher birth weight for infants born before term.

It is certainly the case that, in the study of Lyons - Ruth and colleagues, infant outcome in terms of both cognitive development and attachment security was more compromised in the context of severe, rather than mild, maternal depression.3 In addition, Campbell et al found poor infant behaviour to occur in the context of interactions with the mother where the mother was chronically, but not more briefly, depressed.12 In contrast, other studies have found adverse infant outcome to obtain in spite of maternal remission from depression some months before the infant assessment.