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Caring for premature babies at home
All parents wonder how to care for her newborn baby when it’s expected time to go home with him. It can make you feel unsafe if your baby was born prematurely and you wonder what special care required. Caring for a premature baby is very similar to a baby born at term, simply pay attention to certain areas to ensure that their development to normal soon.
Premature infants who have passed a certain critical weight (usually above 2,000 grams) and no longer require hospital care, may be discharged.
At home need the same care that babies born at term, albeit with some peculiarities.
Today we tend to be discharged soon preterm few years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
Inadequate attention to maternal and reproductive health
The attention to maternal and reproductive health worldwide is often poor and inaccessible, however, many governments are not doing enough to respond to complaints and identify problems, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch presented a summary of their reports on issues related to reproductive health, with views of the International Day of Action for Women’s Health, 28 May 2010.
The ten-page summary, “” unaccountable: Addressing Reproductive Health Care Gaps, “(” Irresponsible: Addressing gaps in reproductive health care “), illustrates the lack of accountability of the health system in Asia, Latin America , Africa, America and Europe. The accountability is an important issue of global initiatives to improve maternal health, including those related to the Millennium Development Goals United Nations and the G-8 summit of 2010.
“Governments have long promised to reduce maternal deaths and improve reproductive health care,” said Janet Walsh, deputy director of Women’s Rights at Human Rights Watch. “However, many of them are not even taking basic steps such as allowing patients to file complaints, responding to complaints, establish medical standards and keep track of births and deaths,” he added.
In interviews around the world, hundreds of women and girls have described their attempts to receive reproductive health care as an obstacle course. There are logistical barriers, cultural and financial services and information for and discrimination and health care providers abusive that stand in your way.
Premature Babies
When the baby is born prematurely need special medical care. Can be monitored in a particular sector of motherhood, or even being hospitalized in a pediatric service. When the child is premature or ill there is another solution: The neonatal units.
It is considered premature baby who was born before 37 weeks gestation. As a consequence, their bodies and core functions have not reached maturity. The premature baby will need to develop within the incubator in the first place if born before the end of the eighth month, if less than 2.5 kilos, if you are malnourished, if you have trouble breathing or have had a difficult birth. In any case, it will be kept under close surveillance by the medical team. Read the rest of this entry »
Special Baby Care: Premature Babies
Why babies should stay in an incubator?
If the child is placed in an incubator, first impressions can be very disturbing, but it provides the baby the right temperature and humidity of the environment that he needs at that time, because premature babies lose much heat through your skin and are more vulnerable to the action of bacteria or viruses.
What is ventilation?
In some cases, the baby may require ventilatory support due to problems in oxygenation, especially in cases of premature babies. Depending on the severity of the case will be the team that he needed assistance, varying from only one oxygen mask of a team of artificial ventilation.
What about premature babies?
Premature babies have varying degrees of immaturity in some organs, especially the lungs, digestive system, and also in controlling body temperature, which is why it is very important to the control and supervision in these cases and the only way is in a special room and specially trained for such cases. Usually remain under special care until they are 38 weeks of gestation, and depending on the week you were born as long as remain hospitalized.
Special Baby Care
What are the special baby care?
For mom and dad can be confusing and frightening to inform them that the baby needs special care immediately after birth, but it is important to know that there are many reasons why such care is necessary and do not always mean the baby has serious problems.
How long the baby should remain in the room special care?
The time that the baby remains in intensive care can vary from few hours to several weeks, depending on the severity of the case and the weight and gestational age of the baby. Most premature babies remain under observation at least, if there was any inconvenience at the time of delivery, such as jaundice, or if the baby aspirated meconium, also must remain under observation.
For premature babies the general rule is to stay in special care nursery until they fulfill and the due date. For example if a baby born at 28 weeks, will remain in intensive care for 12 weeks, thus meeting the mature development that need to leave the hospital.
What are the special care wards?
They are separate rooms where nurses and doctors neonatologists are responsible for the care of babies. It is painful for parents to be separated from their babies at birth, but more important is to understand that is done to preserve the health of the baby and prevent further complications. The special care nursery for babies, generally divided into areas for the simple observation of minor problems such as transient difficulty extrauterine adaptation to the environment (transient neonatal distress), and areas of interaction in neonatal intensive care that takes care of problems more serious.