What does PREEMIE stand for?

The high proportions of costs due to premature child deaths,followed by the mortality impacts of Typhoid in the older population are striking.

That premature child turns 30 this year and I am so grateful to the staff who looked after us so well then.

8 times more likely to give birth to a premature child at less than 28 weeks, and 3 times more likely to give birth at less than 32 weeks.

The two nurses involved were immediately sacked - and were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of causing danger to a premature child.

Davis and clinical psychologist Mara Tesler Stein addresses dealing with powerful and painful emotions associated with being the parent of a premature child, physical recovery from difficult childbirth, forming bonds with one's baby when it must be kept in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), dealing with the difficulties of discharge, homecoming, and settling in, observing one's child for evidence of disabilities and coping with them, and also, how to deal with the loss of a child.

In August 1990, Karla Miller's life-threatening infection forced doctors to induce delivery of her premature child.

Prescott disagreed, saying doctors used "normal efforts for a 22-week premature child born pink, breathing, and alive.