Persistent fetal vasculature (PFV) is a congenital developmental disorder manifesting as a fibrovascular remnant of the embryonal hyaloid vascular system within the vitreal space. Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) presents as varying degrees of non-vascularized retinal tissue with potentially devastating ocular complications. Both pathologies arise from ocular vascular system abnormalities, and ...

 Your family and friends who have breastfed can help you. But do not forget that you may need to do things in a different way since your baby was born early or sick.  The nurses and other staff in the hospital will help you. Be sure your nurses know that you plan to breastfeed. Let them know you want to give your milk to your baby as well.  Some hospitals have International Board Certified L...

Milk banks in Norway have a long tradition of using raw milk. This is a practice the authors hope to continue as they see it as the best choice until a child's own mothers' milk production is sufficient. Not only will the premature babies benefit from having milk from the bank, but if a mother, for any reason, can not supply her baby while it's in the hospital her baby should be offered milk fr...

Intussusception is relatively common in infants but occurs only 0.3% of cases during the first month of life.[1] Majority of neonatal intussusceptions occur in full term babies and it is rare in the premature newborns. Poynter suggested intrauterine intussusception as a cause of intestinal atresia in 1922. Less than 100 cases of intrauterine intussusception in association with ileal atresia hav...

Parental stress after the birth of a preterm baby is well known. Being an obstetrician who herself had extremely premature delivery, author thought narrating self-experience regarding delivering baby. The objective to engage reader both cognitively and emotionally aspects that obstetricians often disregard. Autoethnography unique form research examines interplay between self cultural norms. rol...

a low birthweight. Many recent studies have drawn attention to the importance of intrauterine growth rate as judged by the difference between actual and expected weight at birth in relation to gestational age. The Perinatal Mortality Survey (Butler and Bonham, 1963) showed that 35% of babies who weighed less than 2500 g. at birth were born after the end of 37 weeks' gestation and thus were not ...

Most babies begin to take milk feeds within two or three days of birth and thereafter their intakes of milk steadily increase during the first week and a large proportion of the materials they derive from the digestion of such feeds is retained. This normal process may be hindered by the repeated vomiting exhibited by some premature babies, in the absence of any apparent organic cause except th...

Giving birth to a child is one of the most precious moments in life. Every second new life brought into world and not many children are lucky enough be healthy. Monitoring health conditions baby an incubator considered critical medical issue. Baby incubators play vital role life-saving premature babies since newborn cannot regulate their body temperatures on own like normal babies. Hence, there...