Premature babies
Caesarean or natural birth?
After having traveled for several months during the pregnancy and when it approaches the time of delivery will wonder how our own: if it’s C-section or natural childbirth . In fact, it is the doctor who will test our state and if no complications are not natural childbirth or adoption, if necessary, they will opt for a cesarean procedure.
Natural Childbirth
Is the preferred way of mothers having a baby, even if it means suffering a little, pushing too much pain and suffering enjoy the fact that our baby can reach the world in the most natural and healthy as possible. However, this does not mean that caesarean section is not healthy but it is a surgical procedure that is used in emergency.
Caesarean section
In many cases the work of childbirth begins in a normal and natural but at the time of delivery may be some problems for which interrupt the natural childbirth for a cesarean section, these are: separation of the placenta from the uterine cervix where the child can suffocate and the mother may start with a hemorrhage complicating the baby with the cord (you can jam) where the only way to save is with a caesarean baby difficult to exit the birth canal (this happens when the child has the abdomen larger than the head, which happens as a consequence of having a diabetic mother).
These are some of the conditions that require a cesarean section to achieve a healthy birth. Anyway, is not something that can be chosen, usually, but it is something that is decided by the obstetrician after analyzing all the factors that are affecting.
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Premature rupture of membranes
Premature rupture of membranes or (RPM) is a common problem in pregnant women, has a very clear symptoms affecting both the fetus and mother.
When we say there is premature rupture of membranes?
It says premature rupture of membranes after 21 weeks of gestation and up to one hour before the start of labor. The term covers a wide period of pregnancy.
As of this rupture of membranes at different periods of pregnancy is named doctor may have seen in a medical report
* Preterm premature rupture of membrane “pre viable” This is less than 23 weeks in developed countries.
* Premature rupture of membrane pre-term “away from the term” at viability to approximately 32 weeks of gestation.
* Premature rupture of membranes pre term “near term” from 32 weeks to 36 or so.
What is the cause of premature rupture of membranes?
The truth is that it believes there is no single cause but a combination of factors, the so-called multifactorial cause. In general, authors tend to highlight the cause of infection as the primary cause.
*Cervico vaginal infections
* Another cause low socioeconomic status
* Low maternal weight
* Multiple pregnancy
* Metrorrhagia the second or third trimester
* previous preterm birth
* Malformations or uterine tumors
* Prior conization
* Excess amniotic fluid or Polihidroaminios
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Computer program predicts disease risk premature
A computer program predicts the likelihood of future disease and heart problems in premature babies. Research at Stanford University in the United States. In Embarazo10 you count more than the news.
Researchers at Stanford University have published the results of their work in Science Translatinal Medicine. Through a computer program called PhysiScore using routine hospital data control in the first 3 hours of baby’s life, predicts the likelihood of future infections, illness and heart problems that might occur weeks later.
This program could help doctors distinguish between infants even better high-risk and low risk, a challenge faced daily by specialists in neonatology.
Thanks to this software:
* One could predict the health of premature infants to anticipate what kind of care you receive, whether to spend more time in local intensive care units or transferred to a hospital for more specialized care.
* PhysiScore program can be used automatically in hospital monitors without needles or other invasive techniques.
* When babies are born premature passing through a cardiorespiratory monitoring minutes after birth. The monitors displayed and stored continuously the vital signs including heart rate, respiratory rate, and the amount of oxygen in blood. premature Read the rest of this entry »
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Disease In Premature Babies
The premature baby are the risks arising from a lack of maturity of some organs are therefore not work well or are exposed to external aggression.
The problems of this baby are focused on the difficulty of adapting to the environment extrauterine by their immaturity and low weight. The smaller and immature, the greater the risk of diseases of the baby.
The respiratory, nervous, digestive, renal, immune and vision may be involved. The respiratory system is one of the most affected. Respiratory distress syndrome occurs as a consequence of the lack of surfactant protein that is responsible for the pulmonary alveoli are elastic and remain inflated or expanded. Read the rest of this entry »
Special care premature babies
Being parents of premature is not easy. Passage in an incubator, feeding difficulty, multiple examinations, long stay. A maternity, special care, even light, that receives little too early are sometimes difficult to bear. Instead of feeling reassured by the increased surveillance, young parents are rather confused face of this tiny baby and its apparent fragility. Its slender shape, its thin skin, sometimes a bit “wrinkled”, his few hairs … The physical characteristics of a premature infant may accentuate this feeling of anxiety. That did not last obviously. Although prematurity is often difficult lives, little by little, baby gains weight, her face relaxes, he is regaining strength … It just grows!
If a preterm delivery has visible consequences, other effects depend on the developmental stage of its vital functions at birth. In premature infants, respiratory, digestive, liver … are indeed more or less immature. Disorders or deficiencies related to the prematurity may therefore appear over time: difficulty breathing, weak stomach, anemia, iron deficiency or lack of vitamins … care, examinations and monitoring performed in motherhood, which is sometimes extend to return home, are there to detect and remedy any problems. These are very rare for premature babies, born after the 33rd week of pregnancy. In prematurity, we must distinguish “premature baby” of the “big premature babies”!
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