In neonatal ICUs, extreme care must be taken with premature babies. Among them, providing them with a peaceful and uninterrupted sleep to help them in their physical and emotional development. However, position changes, medical interventions, and diaper changes break sleep cycles.
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Every November 17, Prematurity Day is celebrated around the world. For this reason, the Spanish Society of Neonatology (SeNeo) analyzes the change in the profile of babies born prematurely in our country, the causes of prematurity in Spain, and insists on the importance of prevention measures and a national strategy for care for their proper health and survival.
Today we talk about great news within bad news. The bad news is that the number of babies born prematurely is still very high (1 in 10 babies born today in the world does so early), and within that large number of premature babies, there are a few that are born too early, which we call extremely premature, because they arrive in the world between weeks 22 and 28, when a full-term pregnancy is one that has 40 weeks of gestation.
Ten percent of children born in the world do so prematurely, before the 37th week of gestation. In Spain, the number of premature births exceeds seven percent of the total, according to the National Institute of Statistics, being one of the European countries with the highest rates of premature births.
Every year fifteen million premature babies are born around the world, which means that one in ten babies are born before the 37th week of gestation. Efforts are increasing to improve the quality of life of premature babies, as well as to help their recovery during their stay in the ICU until they are ready to go home.
Update 10/28: When performing the second test 48 hours after birth, the result for Covid has been negative, which indicates that he is not infected, but has tested positive for IgG, revealing that he has antibodies. The mother probably transferred them to the baby through the placenta.
Positional or postural plagiocephaly is the deformity of the baby's head, quite common, caused by resting with the head always supported in the same posture, which acts by modifying the shape of the baby's head.
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