Nía was born on March 11 earlier than expected, with just 32 weeks of gestation and 1.8 kilos of weight. It came to the world at the Sant Joan de Déu Hospital (Barcelona) a few days before the State of Alarm for the coronavirus was decreed in Spain, and no one imagined the battle it would have to fight being so small. It is possible that it is the first premature baby with Covid in Spain.
A woman with Covid-19, who had been isolated for several days in the high-risk ward of the Maternal and Child Hospital in Malaga, gave birth to the first premature baby on Sunday: a 1.2-kilo girl born at 27 weeks and five days gestation.
Having a premature baby can be very unnerving for parents. It is difficult to assume an event as unexpected as the anticipated birth of a child who still had to remain several more weeks in the womb.
In recent years, the number of premature births has increased and so has the survival rate and absence of sequelae of babies, but for parents it is always an unexpected and hard event that provokes diverse reactions. These are seven normal feelings if you are a mother or father of a premature baby.
Every baby born long before his time needs breast milk appropriate to his gestational age. For this reason, in the Neonatology Personalized Nutrition Unit of the Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid, premature babies who need it receive donated breast milk that corresponds to their gestation period and postnatal age.
Today is World Breast Milk Donation Day, an initiative launched to protect and promote breastfeeding, and raise awareness about the importance of donating human milk.
Spanish Public Health is an international benchmark. Citizens go to the hospital for medical procedures at no cost, and the same happens when mothers give birth. This does not mean that it is free, we pay for it through taxes, but it is a public service.
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